Quotes About Awareness

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever….

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

To interviewers who lamented that life in the time of plague had become so unreal, I'd reply that no, actually *this* was real. What's unreal is the fantasy we humans have been living: growing on and on, in denial of the obvious.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

diary that night: 'Lessons learned today: Don't make big decisions when tired, lonely, hungry, frightened, ill or at night.

I realise how pleasant life can be if I stop thinking about it. It is much simpler to exist than to live.

All I know is that I think, and therefore I'm exceedingly angry.

And the knowledge that humanity was not alone in the universe would be as relevant to most as the knowledge that protons were built of quarks.

Being a thing with a central nervous system complex enough to understand the concept of being a thing with a central nervous system. Simply being. Consider all the inanimate

Our fears keep us on our toes.

Surely you can hear him now?

Watch out for pickpockets and gropers now," Adrana said, as if my words counted for nothing. "We'll go all the way along, then come out at Cat Gate.

Perhaps there was some loop or circuit missing from the brains of people like Garlin, some absent process that prevented them from seeing themselves from outside their own skin, in all their ludicrousness. But to a degree, Sparver reflected, it must also be absent from those they swept up into their movements.

Racial bias does exist, and until we can all admit its existence and become introspective as to whether our own personal biases are impacting how we deal with others, there will be no change.

I feel that kids are smart, and I feel that kids will understand things even if they don't understand them from personal experience.

In America, we tend to be very sheltered, and I'm speaking from personal experience because I feel sheltered.

If the NFL is going to be responsible for what someone is doing in their personal life, there may need to be preventative work early against the incidents that are happening.