Quotes About Awareness

only then did I wake out of the book.

All the things we say. And how little of all the words even touch any reality. Or perhaps they all do if we knew it

Your intuition needs a clear, open mind. It won't work if it's competing with other distracting thoughts, fears, or prejudices of your own past experiences.

You always know when Danny (D'Angelo) is coming. You hear him first (because of the Tic Tacs in his pocket) and then you smell him (because he uses way too much cologne!)

A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tuning your mind to a time scale that is the planet's time scale. For me, it is almost unconscious now and is a kind of companionship with the earth.

WE DO NOT SEE with our eyes. We see with our brains.

It occurred to me that I could be less mindful of man, and I seemed to catch a glimpse of freedom.

Never in my life had I seen such a boring movie. I chewed nine consecutive sticks of gum, to remind myself I was still alive.

You and I may go to Harvard, we may go to York of England, or go to Al Ahzar in Cairo and get degrees from all of these great seats of learning. But we will never be recognized until we recognize our women.

You're young," Mallory says. "And the worst thing about being young is not being able to appreciate that you're young because you aren't old enough to know any better.

What am I going to do now? Then I realized this was the perfect time to start journaling again. Because if you don't write down what happens in a day, you forget—and that day becomes a blur and that blur becomes your life.

She was conscious of being alive and being present: a clear night, a golden beach, good food.

What was it about life now? The people who weren't present always seemed to be more important than the people who were.

They were taught in school that fear often derives from ignorance. Once you understand a situation, it becomes far less intimidating.

What was it about life now? The people who weren't present always seemed to be more important than the people who were.

Listen. Observe. Absorb.

Don't think. Smell the flowers.

she has come to the chilling conclusion that we are all alone in our bodies.

Vivi might have remarked once or twice that he could use "more cowbell," but she has come to realize that Rip's strengths are underappreciated.

only someone had been there to remind him that his life, someday, would be over and he should pay attention and enjoy while he could.

The minds of some human beings are as moles, grubbing in the earth for worms. They have no eyes to see God's sky with the stars in it.

It was apparent that there were no facts. Reality was a vague stink that anyone could smell, but no one knew where it came from.

Sometimes, Shan's father had told him, people can live eighty and ninety years and only briefly, once or twice at most, glimpse the true things of life, the things that are the essence of the planet and of mankind. Sometimes people died without ever seeing a true thing. But, he had assured Shan, you can always find true things if you just know where to look.

The more one understands the world...the harder it is to obtain Buddhahood." Dakpo to Shan