Quotes About Awareness

It could happen. People could be fooled. Memory is short.

This I remember. Some people put this out of their minds and forget it. I don't. I don't want to forget it. I don't want it to take the best of me, but I want to be there because this is what happened. This is the truth, you know. History.

You see what you expect to see. You see what you have the labels to see. You see what you have the skills to manage. Everything else is a blur.

Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want.

Satisfaction comes from giving up wishing I was somewhere else or doing something else.

I want to be able to recognise death, to hear her coming, to see her, to touch her, smell her and taste her; to undergo the assault on all of my senses and, in my last moments, to understand her as completely as is humanly possible.

Since most of us are products of a culture and era where nobody likes to discuss death in case it encourages her to visit,

Death is coming, and if it wasn't today, it might tomorrow

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'

Though we are made of memories, we live only in the here and now.

The unasked-for gift of being with people at the end of their lives...is a simple but profound appreciation of the here and now of life itself.

You know when you are on the highway and you stop at a rest area and there's a big map of the region and a big red dot that says YOU ARE HERE? That's anger. That's what anger can tell you. It can tell you where you are.

Place is of consequence only to the extent that it encourages or demands the confrontation of the self by the self, which is solitude's true vocation.

Y nosotros aquí, en nuestro mundo, aburridísimo en comparación, pensando que lo sabemos y que lo vemos todo." Robert Crawford

We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in the world of little things.

Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.

Sun, rain, snow, wind. Every day is a good day to be present.

when in truth the sacred is all around us. Is there not something sacred in the miraculous germination of seeds and the explosive green growth of spring? Might there be a spark of divinity in the instant awareness of another's thoughts when two people make contact?

The abundance of ordinary things, their convenient arrangement here, seemed for the moment a personal gift to me. As did my ability to notice this, to be grateful for it.

And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when you begin to turn, when you're poised exactly between the things in life you want to do and those you need to do, and it seems for a few blessed seconds that they are all going to be the same.

Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in I think that's how dogs spend their lives.