Quotes About Awareness

I understood something about myself as well, even if I didn't have the will to examine it just then.

I did not understand that I carried loneliness before me on a plate, and that music would be the light illuminating me from behind.

If it can be known, I want to know it.

Experiencing nothingness had left her feeling unexpectedly full.

I saw what they thought of you," said Mother Philomela, her voice gentling. "I rejoiced that you'd struck out on your own, but you've a long way to go still. Your kindness toward this one, when you needn't have troubled yourself"—she gestured at Griss—"shows me the true heart of you. Your credo goes further than you realized: walk on, yes, but don't walk past people who need you. Uncurl yourself so you can see them and respond.

Once you glimpsed the truth about yourself, your understanding was complete and you could finally be at piece.

Since we're being literal now, have you felt clear and sensible at other times during your travels?' The question startled Tess into thinking. 'While turning hay. Swimming in the river, crawling through caves… once I was lying under a cattle guard, eating bread, and the sky was blue and there was a bee—' She cut off, embarrassed. It was hard to explain about the bee.

She couldn't explain it except with the word: there . She was there. Present in herself. She wasn't always, so it was worth remarking upon.

walk on, yes, but don't walk past people who need you. Uncurl yourself so you can see them and respond.

Some sober part of my brain seemed to observe everything I did, clucking disdainfully, informing me that ought to be embarrassed, yet making no move

It was hard to fool someone who could tell what you were thinking.

Death required me to pay attention to my life, to what I believe. A woman never knows when her life will be required of her.

My brother ," I said with emphasis, in case the snow had blinded her and she hadn't realized exactly who she'd been standing there with.

So my boyfriend and I will see you tomorrow, right after lunch," Nathalie said. I almost asked if she knew her boyfriend had a name, and if she knew what it was.

I looked behind me to make sure my jeans hadn't caught on fire yet from all the lying.

May you be in heaven a full half hour before the Devil knows you're dead

Being human?" She smirks. "Be wary of a man who you don't want bringing you a cool towel when you're about to pass out from explosive diarrhea.

Be wary of a man who you don't want bringing you a cool towel when you're about to pass out from explosive diarrhea.

If I know something, I am not a victim. Victims don't know the meaning of their suffering. I am an enemy or a collaborator, not a victim.

Things are more complicated than some can admit. People are stupider and less demonic than some can admit.

What I eventually came to understand, about San Francisco, was that I was immersed in beauty and barred from seeing it.

T]ime is more purely hers if she squanders it and keeps it empty, holds it, feels it pass by, and resists filling it with anything that might put some too-useful dent in its open, airy emptiness.

Sometimes they just sit. Sometimes one turns on a radio and they listen to music, or to the news, but they don't care about the actual news, just that the radio is issuing a steadyish sound whose particulars they do not have to follow to understand what the radio is actually telling them: life is being lived. No need to be a part of it as long as you know it's streaming.

The mind is off duty but the body is open.