Quotes About Awareness

How evil could live right next to what was good, in a community where people wore blinkers and refused to see what was right in front of their noses. Once you saw evil up close, you could never close your eyes to it again. That was her curse, and her responsibility.

The pain will be born from that look cast inside yourself, And this pain will make you go beyond the veil. (Mathnawi II, 2517)

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

A person who isn't reminded several times a day about the implications of the color of her skin has time to consider the implications of other things.

Un jovencito melenudo hace versos entre la baraúnda. Está evadido, no se da cuenta de nada; es la única manera de poder hacer versos hermosos. Si mirase para los lados se le escaparía la inspiración. Eso de la inspiración debe ser como una mariposita ciega y sorda, pero muy luminosa; si no, no se explicarían muchas cosas.

You have to know things like: don't spend the whole time talking about yourself. I used to have a problem with this because silence makes me nervous and I fill it with whatever is in my head...

At times I think I can hear my brain screaming, "I am reading here, so please, all other body parts, do your best to keep up!

I have lectured and written about the important role of perception and awareness in health and longevity—how awareness can actually transform matter, create an entirely new body.

That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.

Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you've changed your hair, but they can sense when there's another guy sniffing around their territory

Children are never too young to begin the study of nature's book, and never too old to quit. ~Laura Hecox

Incredible shame is associated with mental illness. People will confide the most intimate details of their love life before they'll mention a relative who had a serious mental breakdown. But the brain is just another organ. It's just a machine, and a machine can go wrong.

It is possible, without knowing it, to live at the margin of your own life.

You can thank the Tylenol killer for the fact that it now takes a blow torch to get into a bottle of Tylenol.

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Every sunset is my world turning. Every season is good and offers its bounty to me. Every moment is mine to embrace for it is the Eternal Now forever expressing in, through, and for me. I live in the Forever Here that is alive in all. Translucent grace shines in us, awake and aware of the beauty we are as we become all we were meant to be. And so it is.     For

In her inspiring book The Not So Big Life, she says, "We need to remodel the way we are living, but not in a way that gives us more of the same kinds of space we already have; that would simply create an even bigger life. What we need is a remodeling that allows us to experience what's already here but to experience it differently, so that it delights us rather than drives us crazy." Even a small detail in a home

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber

If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

One moment follows another. Next comes from previous. So you have to stay on your toes. Protect yourself. Listen to that little voice inside you that says, "Don't do that! You won't like the consequences." Look at all the stuff that's happened to you along the twisting road of your life—good and bad

Son conscientes las piezas del ajedrez de que todas sus acciones, todos sus triunfos y sus derrotas, nunca les han pertenecido?