Quotes About Awareness

Climate change is like that; it's hard to keep it in your head for very long.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"36

Today I fear that we are in fact waking up to a surveillance society that is already all around us. —Richard Thomas, U.K. information commissioner, November 2006

They deny reality because the implications of that reality are, quite simply, unthinkable.

I stopped avoiding the articles and the scientific studies and read everything I could find. I also stopped outsourcing the problem to the environmentalists, stopped telling myself this was somebody else's issue, somebody else's job.

Step one for getting out of a hole: Stop digging. - KC Golden

A Prayer for Daily Insight Open my eyes, God. Help me to perceive what I have ignored, to uncover what I have forgotten, to find what I have been searching for. Remind me that I don't have to journey far to discover something new, for miracles surround me, blessings and holiness abound. And You are near. Amen.

I turned back and tried again, and once more I was sure that I was understanding, and all of it made perfect sense - better than perfect sense, even; it had the feeling of truth, of something that I'd always known and just hadn't ever put into words, or of explaining clearly and plainly something I'd never understood.

it had the feeling of truth, of something that I'd always known and just hadn't ever put into words, or of explaining clearly and plainly something I'd never understood.

My body remembered the endless day;

gently reminding me that people don't think about us nearly as much as we think they do, because they're all busy worrying what people are thinking about them.

Ses longs doigts fins étaient toujours enroulés autour des miens, [...] J'eus soudain beaucoup trop chaud et je fus subitement trop consciente de mon corps. Je retirai mes mains.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

The days are nouns: touch them The hands are churches that worship the world

Every day is a poetry day.

I think of a poem as being deeper than headline news.

those whom we did not know think they know us now.

I have slept so many times you might think I would really be awake by now

Answer, if you hear the words under the words- otherwise it is just a world with a lot of rough edges, difficult to get through, and our pockets full of stones.

To know the difference, you must run this mountain without pause. In the evening or the afternoon, you must cross the first fields waking to your footsteps, stormwashed at the foothills. In the evening or the afternoon, in the closing of a shadowline, you must read aloud the reddened last words of this canyon's leaves to the trees that clap their hands.

So ask yourself, you swirling tornado of a human being, in a world of disoriented honeybees, do you want to look locked out the minute you sit down?

When they invite you to the party Remember what parties are like Before answering.

why are we so monumentally slow?

It is difficult to predict what our finest moments will be, but we know when they happen.