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Quotes About Awareness

I knew I wanted to act from when I was five, and I started studying seriously when I was six and seven. Not with anybody else, but I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.
~ Alan Arkin
I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
~ Alan Arkin
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.
~ Alan B. Watts
Write what you care about, write what moves you, what intrigues you and you find compelling, write what angers you and makes you sad.
~ Alan Ball
Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
~ Alan Bennett
Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities.
~ Alan Bloom
How many millions there are who don't want to go to Hell, but they don't want to get off the road to Hell.
~ Alan Cairns
Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.
~ Alan Cohen
Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.
~ Alan Cohen
Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.
~ Alan Cohen
Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.
~ Alan Cohen
You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.
~ Alan Cumming
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
~ Alan Cumming
Who Do You Think You Are?
~ Alan Cumming
the best way to heal it is to admit it will always be there.
~ Alan Cumming
You can know something in your head but not in your heart.
~ Alan D. Wolfelt
Crendendo Vides: By Believing, One Sees
~ Alan Dean Foster
It is you," Ren murmured. His words unsettled her: Not for the first time, he seemed to know more about her than she did about herself.
~ Alan Dean Foster
those who have their mouths open all the time generally have their ears shut.
~ Alan Dean Foster
knowing how the mind works isn't going to change how your mind works. Even
~ Alan Deutschman
Passion is a meta-emotion — an emotion that is felt only after observing other emotions over time.
~ Alan Downs
We are much better able to evaluate someone else's behavior than we are our own.
~ Alan E. Nelson
By pointing out the errors of others, we strive to elevate ourselves above them.
~ Alan E. Nelson
Know what you are talking about.
~ Alan E. Nelson