Quotes About Awareness

How could he not see all the ways he'd changed my life? How could he not know- But he didn't. It was in the way he turned his head away, when I just stood there. In the way he closed his eyes. In the small, self-mocking smile that played around his lips that I didn't understand but knew couldn't be good.

Then he suddenly looked back at me. "I see you." You always did, I thought, watching sparks dance in his eyes.

Just because you don't know everything don't mean you know nothing.

I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.

Reading is a pathway to the essence of who you are.

Vrijheid betekent niet alleen doen wat je wilt, maar ook weten wat je doet, vrijheid betekent overtuigingen hebben en daarnaar handelen. Anders blijft alleen onwetendheid over, een toestand waarin we ons opwinden over onbelangrijke zaken en in alle gemoedsrust dingen accepteren die gruwelijk zijn.

In the afternoon we can't forget what God told us in the morning.

Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

As she hangs out the window her husband walks below, but her husband hadn't memorized her shadow and she didn't know how to wear perfume.

Knowing how to see, that is the most important gift from God.

It's funny how you don't know you are a bunch of pieces until someone hugs you together.

It is strange to think you don't know you are carrying a giant weight, and you didn't know how heavy it was, until it's gone.

Less of a love. More of a habit. Remember to separate the two in your mind if you can. Many an unwise person has fallen in love with his habits.

Grandpa found a sturdy branch and used it as a walking stick. "Always protect your feet. If your feet are fine, you are fine." The first knowledge pelt of the day. I found a branch of my own. It was handy to have a stick to feel out the path ahead.

One of the benefits of travelling is that you learn what you truly value when you are home. And little things that you might take for granted are sweeter, softer, larger, and infinitely better for the experience of not having them.

And she knows how to come into a home and not step on the toes of a ghost.

We can say this much, however: a normal [inner] conflict can be entirely conscious; a neurotic conflict in all its essential elements is always unconscious. Even though a normal person may be unaware of his conflict, he can recognize it with comparatively little help, while the essential tendencies producing a neurotic conflict are deeply repressed and can be unearthed only against great resistance.

The world runs," Lowell said, "on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don't mind what they don't see. Make them look and they mind, but you're the one they hate, because you're the one that made them look.

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

He couldn't hear, but he listened with his heart. Frog listened with her eyes. Obie listened with his hands. And anyone, if they really wanted to, could listen with their heart.

Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insight, and wisdom that you already possess. Live the life in front of you, be the life you are, and see what you find out for yourself.

Every bit of life comes with instructions, when we are attentive enough to notice.

Every life is a love story, but few of us know what love is until the story is nearly over.

Attention is the most concrete expression of love. What we pay attention to thrives. What we do not pay attention to withers and dies. What will you pay attention to today?