Quotes About Awareness

Elle faisait confiance à la vie pour lui envoyer des indices, des idées, des détails qu'elle convertirait en histoires. C'est comme ça qu'elle avait écrit son premier livre. En ouvrant grand les yeux sur le monde. En écoutant, en observant, en reniflant. C'est comme ça aussi qu'on ne vieillit pas. On vieillit quand on s'enferme, on refuse de voir, d'entendre ou de respirer. La vie et l'écriture, ça va souvent ensemble.

Hay un proverbio senegalés que dice: «Cuando no sepas adónde vas, párate y mira de dónde vienes».

Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open.

If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?

A free fall from joy to.. Truth.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor…. Be grateful for whatever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. RUMI

noticed it at first by the profound feeling of being exposed

Feel the feelings. Drop the story. PEMA CHODRON

Grab a plate and throw it on the ground. Okay done. Did it break? Yes. Now say sorry to it. Sorry. Did it go back to the way it was before? No. Do you understand?

It's only after we have felt the sting of remorse and become present to the costs of our confusion that we're given the chance to redeem ourselves with a pledge to do things differently.

Once she saw herself as the source of her disappointing love story

Once she saw herself as the source of her disappointing love story, Dianna discovered there was no shortage of evidence that she was the author of her own deep aloneness in life.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thought. With our thoughts we make the world. —The Dhammapada

Whenever you are pointing your finger at someone, notice that there are always three fingers pointing back at you. —Anonymous

You begin to know that life is transient, and even at its longest, far too short.

There are two things to avoid with your journal. One is never writing in it; the other is always writing in it. In the first case, you participate in life without observing it. In the second case, you observe life without participating in it.

Even if I were half dead, drugged to the gills, deaf, dumb, and blind, I would know you were here. How can you expect me to rest when you arouse such madness in me?

It is when we are confronted with...poignant reminders of mortality that we become most aware of the strangeness and wonder of our brief life on Earth.

foster a teacher's habit of paying close attention to what students say, whether they speak through words or actions.

When you are quiet, the silence blows against your mind and etches away everything that is soft and unimportant. What is left is what is real: pure awareness and the very hardest questions.

Listen to. To hear with thoughtful attention. To hold something close, to attend to it, to be astonished by it, to devote your life to its mysteries, to name it precisely, to wonder how it comes to be. To stay awake to it. To move closer to the wild and twittering night. To let it cover you and keep you safe. To me, listening is starting to sound a lot like love.

Try to go infinitely deep into any piece of the distance of time. If there is eternal life, a friend says, it will not be in the length of your life, but in its depth…I don't think there is any limit to the depth of each moment, and I am going to try to live in a way that plumbs those depths, to live thickly, expanding the reach of my moment down into the mire of detail and up into the damp and cry-filled air.

Tis a fact I've learned all too well that words cast out in the light of day, like doves, oft come home to roost in the darkest hours." -Christopher

many people underestimate the ongoing impact of ADHD among older adults,