Quotes About Awareness

Cody nodded, then said, "Hmmm," so Larry would know he was listening.

He was an extremely intelligent and perceptive man, and consequently doomed to a life of emotional and intellectual loneliness.

Think globally and act locally.

were all so sure it was Dallas. Maybe next time you'll listen

Avoiding hard work required discipline and a complete awareness of his surroundings, as well as an intuitive sense of when to be in the wrong place when extra time or effort was demanded. Like golf or fly-fishing, it was a lifelong pursuit that he knew he might never perfect but he could certainly continue to improve.

He thought back on the accidental meeting he'd witnessed between these two yesterday and realized this wasn't the beginning.

whenever there is a sunset in front of you, turn around and start shooting what's behind you.

The best camera is already always with you, because the best, sensor is your brain and the best lens is your eyes.

conscious that his right leg

And in my wilful blindness I had refused to see what was before my eyes. How men fear the chaos of the world, I thought, and the yawning eternity hereafter. So we build patterns to explain its terrible mysteries and reassure ourselves we are safe in this world and beyond.

Without compunction, pity or shame, they've built towering walls around me. Desperate, I sit and think one thing: alone here this fate confounds me. For there were many things I'd hoped to do out there. With all the construction, how was I not aware? Yet the crack and clang of hammers I never once heard. Imperceptibly they've confined me from the outside world. ("Walls")

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

There are moments that define our existence, moments that, if we recognize them, become pivotal turning points in our life.

One of the several masks of this same reality.

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

Spalding Smails This is good stuff. I got it from a Negro. You're probably high already and you don't even know it.

Que não suspeitará da tua perdição mergulhado como agora, a teu lado, na contemplação dessa paisagem interna onde não sabes sequer que lugar ocupas, e nem mesmo se estás nela.

Sobrevivo a cada manhã quando, cruzando as portas e corredores que me conduzem às ruas intermináveis, imagino sempre que sou invisível para cada um dos que passam.

When you were having what would become your happiest memories in the future, you didn't know you were having them.

To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves.

Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality.

To simply wait and be bored has become a novel experience in modern life, but from the perspective of concentration training, it's incredibly valuable.

It's now possible to completely banish solitude from your life. Thoreau and Storr worried about people enjoying less solitude. We must now wonder if people might forget this state of being altogether.