Quotes About Awareness

Colleges spend more time telling women how to survive predators than telling the other half of their students not to be predators.

Here in the United States, where there is a reported rape every 6.2 minutes, and one in five women will be raped in her lifetime

Which means that there may be very nearly a rape a minute in the United States.

Perhaps it's not that knowledge is power, but that some knowledge has power and some is stripped of the power it deserves. The powerful lack the knowledge; the knowledge lacks the power.

I understand that there is a writer named Jonathan Franzen, but I have not read him.

It kills me to think I didn't spot her headed for the rocks. Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course.

How many years went by unnoticed, unembraced?

Uncountable the number off breaths I've taken for granted in my life.

Don't ever worry bout bein holy, babychild. Just keep your eyes wide open except when you sleep. Then let the Lord's mighty vision see you through the night.

far as I knew. Never thought one way or the other when Mama used to take her "naps" in the middle of Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner. Never said to myself, Mama's not napping, she's passed-out drunk. Never even questioned

sadness we did not have to work on. It came, as sadness usually does, as soon as I sat down and began to listen. The small press had a correspondingly

Uncountable the number of breaths I've taken for granted in my life.

She looked as if she were about to burst into tears, but she was wonderful at catching the ball of her own mood in mid-air.

Mamma was aware that there were many people who read what she called trashy books, but it was news to her that there were people who read nothing at all.

L'indifferenza significa che gli occhi non hanno più bisogno di cercarsi, le mani di protendersi; né le labbra di unirsi, perché è un'unione in cui non ci si accorge più della separazione dei corpi.

When we're deluded, there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

Know your mind and see your nature.

When you realize that whether something exists or not is nothing but the perception of your own mind, its external existence is seen as nonexistent and non-arising. Mahamati, there is no contradiction in my earlier and later statements.

Mahamati, to see things as they really are means to transcend 414 what are nothing but perceptions of your own mind.

What is real i the absence of the fiction of self-existence.

The Buddha asks us to see things as they really are. He does not ask us to cling to optimistic views of eternity or pessimistic views of annihilation but simply to examine our experience.

Negative attention desecrates our altar. But we women have been giving ourselves negative attention so consistently, and for so long, that we do not even see it as a problem.

Reginald Hill

Unser Leben ist wie ein Bogen eingespannt zwischen Geburt und Tod. Wer sich seines Endes dabei bewusst ist, kann intensiver leben, seine Ideen wie Pfeile genauer und weiter schießen. Diese Art Zielsicherheit gehört zur Kunst des Lebens. Sie besteht nicht nur darin, all seine Fähigkeiten optimal zu nutzen, sie gilt vielmehr selbst Ziel zu sein.