Quotes About Awareness

Horribly aware of what was happening, conscious, as she had never been before, that it was possible both to love her mother more than anyone in life and yet be driven mad by her presence

We weren't victims,' Madeleine Dissoubray would later say. 'It wasn't like the Jews or the gypsies. We saw the German posters, we read about the penalties, we heard about the torture. We knew what we were doing. It was our choice, and this gave us a strong emotional link.' (Moorehead, 2011, 161)

Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!

We are not designed to be critical of others or ourselves; we think ill of others only out of fear.

Healing is a different type of pain. It's the pain of becoming aware of the power of one's strength and weakness, of one's capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.

How can you live without knowing what your spirit is doing and what your spirit is saying to you?

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau once said: "Living next to the Americans is like sleeping next to an elephant—no matter how friendly and even-tempered the elephant, one is affected by every twitch!

The endless, unrelieved suffering of so many who are unable to deliver themselves is a reality we can no longer ignore.

There is a very pervasive web of falsehoods that the dreamer must wake from in order to start on her path. These are the lies of the mad world, the system of delusion maintained by human drama and ignorance.

After all, deprivation was what he believed was there, but it was the ever-present, self-confirming mechanism of fulfillment that fulfilled his perception of deprivation! Once the hungry ghost perceives that fulfillment is more real than deprivation, he can start to perceive fulfillment everywhere because if we perceive something somewhere, we will eventually perceive it everywhere. That's the quirk of consciousness.

As Jung emphasized: "Until you make the unconscious, conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate.

But Jung also pointed out: "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

The role of your genius spirit is to essentially heal, transform, and evolve consciousness.

It was as if he had stood me squarely before the world, removed the blindfold, and ordered me to open my eyes.

People think that what happens to someone else has nothing to do with them. They think that what happens in one place doesn't matter any place else.

Do Americans think of us? So she began as we squatted over the toilets: If you want, I'll tell you, but nothing I say will be enough.

Carolyn Forché

Yesterday was one of those days when nothing went right, and I wouldn't have noticed it if it had.

Gabriel: You're not going to do anything stupid, are you? Tamsin: You mean intentionally?

Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.

He had no idea there even was a before until he crashed hard into the after.

This is happening; this is not fiction. And the thing about life? It doesn't have texture at all. Go ahead, feel the space around you. Do it now. See? It's nothing but air.

Read my story, walk through these woods, and when you get to the other side, you may not even realize that you're carrying something out that you didn't have when you went in. A little tick of an idea, clinging to your scalp or hidden in a fold of skin. Somewhere out of sight. By the time you discover it, it's already begun to prey on you; perhaps it's merely gouged your flesh, or perhaps it's already begun to nibble away at your central nervous system.

You can go a surprisingly long time without figuring out the kind of person you are and in what direction your life is taking you.