Quotes About Awareness

Krissa had since learned a great deal about the drug Lithium and was now aware of how controversial it was.

We couldn't see the real dark for the metaphorical dark. Because of the metaphorical dark, the death-dark, we were constantly concerned to banish the natural dark.

Isn't that a kind of prayer? The care and maintenance of the web of our noticing, the paying heed?

We look about the world, by the light we have made, and realise it's all vulnerable, and all worth saving, and no one can do it but us.

I grew to appreciate the company of people who listen to the world. They don't feel the need to talk all the while. They were alert to bird-cries, waves sucking on rocks, a rope frittering against a mast.

Knowing birds is like being fluent in a foreign language, or adept with a musical instrument.

Women might be beaten senseless by their husbands in the house next door, but it was never mentioned.

Conscience is that still, small voice that yells so loud the morning after." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meditation is an activity of the mental consciousness. It involves one part of the mind observing, analyzing, and dealing with the rest of the mind.

if the scriptures don't sometimes pierce us like a sword, we're not paying close enough attention.

But the joke is on us: what we think we are only 'getting through' has the power to change us, just as we have the power to transform what seems meaningless—the endless repetitions of a litany or the motions of vacuuming a floor.

No matter what passes, for good or ill, it is always better to know.

Death is something you can add to every day.

I do not know Whether I spoke or heard The word That fills all silence.

Like many parents in middle age, he's quick to spot changes in the world, slow to note shifts in his own perspective.

It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.

Remember: what you focus on becomes bigger.

It's not just about recognizing how 'precious' every moment is, or about 'living for today.' It's about finding the sacred center of now, and living there, moment to moment, always.

Depression meant that every breath, every thought, every moment of consciousness hurt.

Gurdjieff says, 'You can never stop associations. As long as you breathe, there are associations. These are automatic. . . . you must not try to stop them; let associations flow but not be active .

I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.

I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still cannot see. (Mrs. Plithiver)

let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness. —James Thurber