Quotes About Awareness

Some will not see them. But some will see the horses with their hearts of sleeping volcanoes and will be rocked awake past their bodies to see who they have become.

I know I walk in and out of several worlds every day.

I was a star falling from the night sky I needed you to catch me I was a rainbow lifting from a dark cloud I needed you to see me You keep your eyes to the ground

Put down that bag of potato chips, that white bread, that bottle of pop. Turn off that cellphone, computer, and remote control. Open the door, then close it behind you. Take a breath offered by friendly winds. They travel the earth gathering essences of plants to clean. Give it back with gratitude.

I am always in danger.

By listening we will understand who we are in this holy realm of words.

Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are.

If I think behind me, I might break. If I think forward, I lose now. Forever will be a day like this Strung perfectly on the necklace of days.

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone – its value is incontestable.

I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?

Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.

In that way you recall, suddenly, sharply, in daylight, a trace of a dream of the previous night--but even as you recall it, it begins to fade.

Alone,alone! It is a fact, you hear more acutely and you see and think most acutely,when you are alone. Alone, alone! But there is happiness in alone, if you believe you have chosen it.

A fear of the unknown: what was that called? Worse yet: a fear of the known.

Momma used to say, you got to know when to move. More important than knowing when to stay put.

You spared the adults in your household. You learned how if a thing is not spoken of, even those closest to you, who love you, will assume that it doesn't exist.

For once a truth is known it cannot be unknown, it can only be denied.

On their own, your eyes did not naturally discover the sky.

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

Like the silence that surrounds the tolling of the bell allows you to hear the bell.

Without anyone to talk to, a person is not quite real. Sounds are very important - we are like bats tapping at each other with sounds, making sure there is someone there, groping along. Sounds. Syllables. The beat of music. It is all a curious flowing, which you can hear only when you are silent yourself.

Not hearing impaired but just not hearing which is a way of not caring.)

On the Decker bus she often gave up her seat to older passengers or to women with young children, she was nervously alert to the needs or near-needs of other people. It pleased and excited her to see the space she'd occupied taken, the emptiness where she had been so readily filled in.

that I—I have not 'heard' . . . What is it?