Quotes About Awareness

Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.

He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it.

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

We've learned to see the world in gasps.

How were we to know we were happy?

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

The world is full of weapons if you're looking for them.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.

Those in pain have no time for the pain they cause.

Lions don't know they are lions. They don't know how brave they are.

Is that how we lived, then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever is going on is as usual. Even this is as usual, now. We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Not real can tell us about real.

I wish I was ignorant, so I didn't know how ignorant I am

They didn't realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn't sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began.

As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before. Like stage magic, knowledge before you knew it took place before your very eyes, but you were looking elsewhere.

But a chair, sunlight, flowers: these are not to be dismissed. I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

As you ramble on through life, Brother, Whatever be your goal, Keep your eye upon the doughnut, And not upon the hole.

Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

She talks with wolves, without knowing what sort of beasts they are: Where have you been all my life? they ask. Where have I been all my life? she replies.