Quotes About Awareness

Peace is not something that happens by accident. Peace is like silence; it is always there. The lack of harmony in our lives is like noise superimposed on the silence. The issue is not how to create peace, but how to live in a way that eliminates the noise.

One of the fundamentals of understanding love is that love comes from within oneself rather than from someone else.

Prostia, în sens major ?i grav, este r?mânerea necritic? a proiectului propriu

Faptul c? sunt dus în pr?pastie cu gânduri bune nu schimb? câtu?i de pu?in realitatea c?derii mele în gol.

No happiness or pain, no more forgetting.

Already she was climbing the wind, already was not and didn't know it . . .

How does every person not cry out all the time?

When awareness is grounded, we become aware of what is going on in our bodies in the space between our heads and our feet.

Empty the mind of all its chatter and see what's there. This is the work of self-knowledge: to uncover your authentic self.

Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

Memory, you realized long ago, is a game that a healthy-brained person can play all the time, and the game of memory is won or lost on one criterion: Do you leave the formation of memories to happenstance, or do you decide to remember?

It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.

My dad always says to listen for the pauses when you want to know if someone's hiding something.

If we did not mark the days, we would not know how much we had survived.

He had an appreciation for things other people had forgotten.

No, I've been doing this myself forever. I could have gone in here myself, but my daddy doesn't want me to get raped. That happens all the time in bathrooms.

There's a difference between being alive and living.

The store is fifteen Mayas wide and twenty Mayas long. She knows this because she once spent an afternoon measuring it by lying her body across the room. It is fortunate that it is not more than thirty Mayas long because that is as far as she could count on the day the measurements were taken.

He was happiest when he did not have to think about his body--when he could forget that he had a body at all.

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

On the board, Mr. Beery had written "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." I wasn't sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to study.

The alternative to appropriation is a world where white European people make art about white European people, with only white European references in it. Swap African or Asian or Latin or whatever culture you want for European. A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own.

But because he had been mostly raised in Asia, he had been completely sheltered from the kind of racism that Asians experienced in America.