Quotes About Awareness

The next morning, Malcolm thought long and hard before waking up, for he had come to recognise over the past quarter of a century that rather less can go wrong if you are asleep.

She] was not nearly so intrusive. If she happened to observe the comings and goings of her friends out of the corner of her eye (which she could hardly fail to do, given the nature of her favorite sitting-place) and chanced to be able to remember when she had seen them and where they had been going, it was simply a tribute to her keen powers of observation and recall. Conscious spying was beneath her altogether.

Even more truly is it said: when you don't know spit, bullshit.

Although her hearing was excellent, she had that gift of temporary deafness that is granted to so few.

She had a slightly dizzying sense of being overtaken by time, the future becoming the present before she was ready.

blissfully unaware of the beautiful tradition they'd been chosen to uphold.

Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have repeated our ignorance, one to the other, we have mistaken it for knowledge.

How would we fare psychologically if the walls of slaughterhouses were made of glass?

What happens to them matters to them.

Strange, how seldom a person knows which days of his life are tragic and which are happy

Cries for help are frequently inaudible.

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.

The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball.

Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

if we aren't learning something from a new experience, it's usually because we aren't paying attention. Or we're following the wrong libretto.

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you.

Be careful what goes into your mouth and what comes out of it.

It seems like with you everything leads back to the subject of death. Sure and show me the person's road that does not lead to death. we try to divert our attention, to pretend 'tisn't so, but the very air we breathe is vulture's breath. Please don't be insinuatin' your man is morbid. I dwell on death in order to defeat it.

You don't need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Don't even listen, simply wait. Don't even wait. Be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you. To be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet. —Franz Kafka

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

To eliminate the agitation and disappointment of desire, we need but awaken to the fact that we have everything we want and need right now.

Actually, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

Those who willingly accept being conned are as corrupt as those who con them.