Quotes About Awareness

No basta, a fin de cuentas, con «matar al padre»: también es preciso comprenderlo. De lo contrario, en el peor de los casos, uno se arriesga a repetir sus mismos errores. Salvo

Focus equals feeling.

The annihilation/re-creation is done so quickly that man does not notice any discontinuum between the two units of time in his sense perception and imagines that everything continues to be as it has been.

I knew there was a minefield ahead of me and no way to avoid the bombs, and even if you didn't actually step on the bombs, you were already transformed by constantly looking out for them.

Dreams don't have time. Neither does sleep, nor death. That's why it is sometimes good to wear a watch.

I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, I realised that there was a danger in innocence and beauty, and I could not live with both.

It is less distracting in the silence," she said. "Sustained silence allows one truly to listen to what is deep inside. We call it waiting in expectation.

I have always admired most those who lead with their eyes, like Mary Anning, for they seem more aware of the world and its workings.

Everybody asks the same questions -- but they don't know that they ask the same questions.

Women always studied other women, and did so far more critically than men ever did. Men didn't notice the run in their stocking, the lipstick on their teeth, the dated, outgrown haircut, the skirt that pulled unflattering across the hips, the paste earrings that were a touch too gaudy. Violet registered every flaw and knew every flaw that was being noted about her.

Mein ganzes Leben war ich diese Straßen langgegangen, aber nie war mir so sehr aufgefallen, dass ich dabei meinem Zuhause den Rücken zukehrte. Doch als ich das Ende der Straße erreichte und außer Sichtweise meiner Familie abbog, fiel es mir leichter, ruhig auszuschreiten und mich umzusehen.'' 19

With every task she asked for instructions so that she would not offend Abigail with different ways of doing things that might imply her hostess was in the wrong. Abigail was the sort of woman who thought that way.

To be a real traveler you must be willing to give yourself over to the moment and take yourself out of the center of your universe

We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.

Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. Loneliness is small, solitude is large. Loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. Loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nobody answers; solitude has its roots in the great silence of eternity.

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

Watch, listen, and then act, they told us. This is the way to live.

If you're always worried about crushing the ants beneath you... you won't be able to walk.

My place really was here. I was too foolish and stubborn to notice. But, what I truly hoped for then was here. Why do I always realize it... when I've already lost it.

If you spend too much time focused on the dead or broken, you'll find death perched on your shoulder...

Don't forget.../ ...When you gaze into the darkness.../ The darkness gazes back into you.

You don't have to forget the past to start enjoying the present.

I have a grasshopper and haphazard mind y'know, a brain that listens to all sorts of things as well as itself.

not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living!