Quotes About Awareness

sometimes it's about living life 'one letter' at a time.

On ne se souvient pas des jours, on se souvient des instants.

Non si ricordano i giorni, si ricordano gli attimi.

You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it.

a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.

Man sees only between the blinks of his eyes. He does not know what the world is like during the blinks. He sees the world in pieces, in fragments.

Did I know that the reason Hitler had been able to slaughter six million Jews without too much complaint from the world was that for two thousand years the world had been taught that Jews, not Romans, had killed that man?

Is he aware of both—and unaware? Can the mind ride two such separate tracks simultaneously? Concealed ambivalence. Hidden ambiguity. Are we so flawed that we can never truly know our own most secret motives?

And in that silence he began to hear the world crying.' - Chaim Potok, The Chosen

an artist, too, must see the world whole, he must somehow learn to see during the blinks, he must see where no one else can see, he must see the connections, the betweennesses in the world. Even if the connections are ugly and evil, the artist must learn to see and record them.

In other words, there can be no real identity with our heritage until we know what our heritage really is. It is all hidden in our history, but we are ignorant of that history. We have been floating alone, basking blissfully in the sunny heritage of other peoples!

it seems to me that life's moments don't have to be so right or not right anymore, so fraught and weighted with valve, but just of themselves, what they are...

Thank goodness they are curious! It's a sign of healthy minds. And while it may be obvious, it's our responsibility to educate them to the idea that romancing the unknown is attended by myriad possibilities, too, shepherding them through those heady periods of urge and instinct when they think they can soar, and deliver them, we hope whole, to a place where perspective begins to reign, where they know that the groggy old bear at the zoo will instantly wake the moment you step inside the cage.

so we texted about getting some "quality time" in then. We were long practiced at assuring this, which worked for us. But we all know the truth: real "quality time" happens without you knowing it's happening

When people are enjoying a film they say I didn't see the time go by… but I think that when time flies and you don't see time passing by you are robbed of an hour and a half or two hours of your life. Because all you have in life is time. With my films you're aware of every second passing through your body.

I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.

If I was getting harder, it was in response to the world around me.

Don't go looking for trouble; it's already looking for you.

But men are less used to the idea of being raped than women are, and it strikes them with a fresh horror. With women, that horror comes right along with the female genitals.

The security light made me feel safe, though I knew that was an illusion. If there's light, you can just see what's coming for you a little more clearly.

I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie.

What are you, Zen Master Fang?

I didn't see what was in front of me until I thought it might be taken away. - Sam

The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time.