Quotes About Awareness

Live each moment, each precious moment that you have. Live each one as if it were your last. And your first. Miss

Emptiness where you wouldn't expect it speaks to you.

let where you've been alone. Do that and the universe will lean in your direction.

It's easier to act out of ignorance than it is to become educated.

Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repetitive stories we tell about it, with fresh eyes. Come Monday morning, we may still clamber back into the monkey suits of our everyday roles—parent, spouse, employee, boss, neighbor—but, by then, we know they're just costumes with zippers.

Freedom, if it emerges like magic from consciousness (like the conjuring of consciousness itself!) seems best recognized in the choices made for love.

Y]ou are here to learn something. Don't try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.

Lastly, you are here to learn something. Don't try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.

When you're in a hole, stop digging.

since time is a luxury you don't always have." He believed

We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.

I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.

Finally, while I don't want to disparage the traditional novel--I still prefer Dickens's Great Expectations over Kathy Acker's Great Expectations, though I'll take Lauren Fairbanks's Sister Carrie over Dreiser's any day--there's a whole other world of novels out there most people never even hear of, much less read. Let's go see.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it.

But it seemed to him the world was brighter, more intense, more alive than he had remembered. Colours were more vibrant, shimmering; the scents of ordinary things, wet pavement, bricks in sunlight, unripe peaches, felt layered and dizzyingly complex.

Driving around the West, I was like an illiterate man staring into a book; he doesn't understand what exactly he's seeing, but he damn sure knows it's important

In the first half of the twentieth century, the conservationist Aldo Leopold had already warned of two "spiritual dangers" that come from not owning a farm: "One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

Fear prevents engagement; lack of engagement builds into a habit of avoidance; and pretty soon it's just your family stuck inside four walls, where perhaps the biggest obstacle of all—technology—abounds. Even if you recognize that it might not be good for them to be in their

Lucius recalled an ancient Etruscan proverb: "Sit too near the flame and your cloak will catch fire.

Put simply, people tend to do what they know and fail to do that which they have no conception of. In that way, ignorance profoundly channels the course we take in life . . . People fail to reach their potential as professionals, lovers, parents, and people simply because they are not aware of the possible.

We live under the knowledge illusion because we fail to draw an accurate line between what is inside and outside our heads. And we fail because there is no sharp line. So we frequently don't know what we don't know.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.