Quotes About Awareness

The woman senses that time 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.

All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said.

I was in an acute case of the present tense. P.30

Enchantment means to want something and also to know, somewhere inside yourself, not an obvious place, that you aren't going to get it.

Wholeness is never lost, it is only forgotten. Integrity rarely means that we need to add something to ourselves: it is more an undoing than a doing, a freeing ourselves from beliefs we have about who we are and ways we have been persuaded to 'fix' ourselves to know who we genuinely are.

The way in which we go to the grocery store may tell us everything about the way in which we live a life. The way we tend the life force in a plant may be the way we tend our own life force. We are exquisitely coherent.

Protecting ourselves from loss rather than grieving and healing our losses is one of the major causes of burnout. Very few of the professionals I have treated for burnout actually came in saying that they were burned out. I don't think most of them knew. The most common thing I've been told is, 'There's something wrong with me. I don't care anymore. Terrible things happen in front of me and I feel nothing.

As a human being, I know I can never hope to have the depth and breadth of perspective to know whether any of my actions will ultimately harm or heal.

Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all that rushing.

Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn't pleased at being ignored.

Girls may try to avoid being alone at all costs, including remaining in an abusive friendship.

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

Follow your inclination. It will take you to the thoughts you'd never known you'd had.

Privilege is like oxygen. You don't realize it's there until it's gone.

How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.

We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.

You're mental. I always knew you were.

We know it, but chose forget it. Is too much hard to bear. Yesterday, you made me realize that: we chose forget.

Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.

some things cost more than you realize

And for a minute there, I lost my self.

I'm composed largely of what the streets and rooms look like, of how to arrive 'just' here.

Annie watched them all walk together, like sleepwalkers, she thought, jackrabbits trying to outrun them. The two ends of the line pulled in to form a semicircle, a giant net of humanity. *

Maybe God posted signs visible only to those with eyes to see. She wasn't one of them, but she could accept that maybe her husband was.