Quotes About Awareness

It is unthinkable and grotesque that we make the same mistake over and over again. There should be an uproar of children shouting, "What about me?" But they often can't speak and so their plight goes unnoticed...

Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see.

He knocked his pipe out. His paper rustled to the floor and his spectacles slid own his nose. His hands, red and shiny, lay relaxed on his knee. He abandoned himself to the quietness and the warmth of sun and fire. Autumn was a strange paradoxical time of the year. It was the season when he was happiest and yet it was the season when he was most vulnerable and most aware, and that was not always a happiness. Yet he liked autumn.

Just as it takes death to awaken us to the full stature of someone loved

She knew little about herself and consequently little about others.

A man is not a different person just because he becomes aware. Oh I know it must seem like metamorphosis when the eyes of a blind man are opened, but he's the same man. We grow, mercifully, and growth is just awareness of more and more.

But she was not idle while she waited, because she was holding herself in readiness for whatever it was that she would have to do. She was trying not to be frightened in her mind, and she found that that sort of waiting and thinking really keep a person quite busy.

What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew. Mary, it is most alarming, the way you make me talk. I don't talk to anyone else as I do to you. I'd be ashamed to." Mary was suddenly aware of wealth and when he asked her again, "Well, are you happy?" she replied with absolute truth, "Yes, I am.

Marguerite was not so sure. What did human beings know about anything? Their own existence was still a mystery to them, and of the existences beyond their own they knew about as much as field mice know of the world above the heads of the bending ears of corn.

If happiness was now beyond his reach, he could at least know respite, and respite, with its lifelong rhythm, can in the awareness of it be called by the name of peace.

I was thinking of moments of respite. One can't get the most out of them unless one treats them as one treats the next thing; as though it were the only thing. I mean, if you think about the toothache that has just stopped, it so easily becomes the toothache that is going to begin again, and all your peace is lost.

Our gaze changes all that it falls upon. 

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

When you take things personally, she knew, the world becomes very small. It is you and nothing is smaller. When you manage not to do that, the world opens wide.

The phrase that came to her mind was "the long and sudden of I." We go on and on through the long months of our lives until we hit a sudden moment that stuns us.

What we lose is any sense that life is alive, she thought. The days follow one after the other and everything passes us by. Then along comes someone who looks at us kindly, as if we were worth noticing, and life quickens.

You never realise what loneliness is until it creeps up on you - like a disease, it is, something that happens to you gradually.

I wasn't worried, but I thought I should know something that didn't seem to be there anymore. It was gone, whatever it was, fleeting and slippery like a fish darting through silky weeds. From

Before we know it, its all going to be over so fast. Too fast for us to even realize what was..

Generalmente hablando, existen cinco tipos de meditaciones: meditación de atención plena, meditación espiritual, meditación enfocada, meditación del mantra y movimiento de meditación.

I am passionate about talking to women about their breast health.

Love is neither a conditional business nor an ever-fixed mark arrangement. People always know somewhere inside them if they are not loved. No gestures, talk, conciliation, pronouncements can prevail over that deep instinctual knowledge.

I know that. I've read it before,' 'Is that so? What is it like to read a novel when you know what's going to happen?' 'Once you know the story, you can notice other things.

Ich habe festgestellt, dass es gefährlich ist, sich an Dinge zu gewöhnen.' 'Gilt das für alles?' 'Ja, für alles. Man nimmt, was immer es ist, einfach nicht mehr wahr, und, schlimmer noch, man hat die Illusion, etwas geschafft zu haben.