Quotes About Awareness

Drop your blinders and raise the sewer to eye level; admit you're swimming in shit. If you don't acknowledge the turd hurtling down the drain toward you, you can't dodge it. I've come to get out of the toilet bowl and become the commode that flushes the shit.

I can't not misstep. I have feet.

You can't save people from themselves. You can only try to wake them up.

But if there's one thing I've learned in life it's this: assume makes an ass out of 'u' and 'me.' Ã¢â'¬Â "Cute," I said, spelling ass-u-me out in my head.

The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.

Assume' makes an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'.

It's not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It's often only in the lies that we refuse to speak that truth can be heard at all.

How he wanted to touch her hand again! And once again, it seemed that her eyes lingered the longest upon his face, this pumpkin who was the pinnacle of female virtue. Cormack's cock, unbidden, elongated and stiffened. He was glad that his buckskin shirt covered his erection, although suddenly he was acutely aware that his belt was probably too tight.

The function of emotions is to tell us about our internal world, just as senses provide guidance in the external world.

Be careful of the magician that tricks you into believing that what you do with food has no consequences.

I thought you were watching your weight," Gardner said from the doorway. This was directed at Wynne, who swallowed the last bite of doughnut with a guilty air as he looked at her. "I am. I'm watching it creep toward three hundred.

It was one of those things—until you knew a person well, you didn't really use their name. Names had power. Names conveyed meaning.

expected—"  He inhaled a deep breath.  "We only

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

when you're raising weather by artificial means, it's hard to pretend you don't have a hand in the change

He looks me to pieces … I realize now that I have been glimpsed and corner-of-the-eyed before, by the Chief and my sister and the yawning tourists. But I have never actually been looked at. Not like this.

Pain collected into deep pockets and I was aware of this painbut somehow I could not seem to feel it. It was like a body-deafness.

Don't just write a "To Do" list. Write a "To Be" list.

If you don't listen to your animal instincts, you are placing too much importance on knowledge thereby not being wise.

When in a negatively charged state, be careful about the decisions you make.

Everything in life comes with a pooper scooper factor

don't let the pursuit of happiness stop you from being happy right here, right now.

The Bible tells me that "every good and perfect gift is from the Lord." I believe it. But, unlike things like stress and calories, these good gifts really are optional—I can choose to push them away, or I can embrace them with open arms. I wonder how many good gifts I've left unopened because I was too stressed, harried, or just plain shortsighted to recognize them for what they were?

The Dalai Lama said, "If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise — you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing your clothes." Finally we can let go of all responsibility for making things happen and acknowledge that we lived life as a gift. It has meaning.