Quotes About Awareness

Does it surprise you as much as it does me, this correspondence between things as they are and the pictures we have of them in our minds?

La historia carece de vida a menos que le proporciones un hogar en tu conciencia

Freud's warning that what I omit without thinking (i.e. without conscious thought) may be the key to the deepest truth about me?

Trotzdem konnte er sich nicht vorstellen, sein Leben damit zu verbringen, Grenzpfähle in die Erde zu treiben, Zäune zu errichten, das Land aufzuteilen. Er sah sich nicht als etwas Schweres, das Spuren hinterließ, sondern allenfalls als einen winzigen Fleck auf der Oberfläche der Erde, die zu fest schlief, um das Kratzen eines Ameisenfußes, das Raspeln von Schmetterlingszähnen, das Taumeln von Staub zu bemerken.

Arroyo hace una pausa y lo mira con suma atención–. Ha ocurrido algo, Simón, y algo no es lo mismo que nada. Cuando sienta que la amargura lo invade, recuérdelo.

Tienes alguna idea de quién era ese niño que vivía a tu cuidado? Él dice que sabías que era excepcional pero ¿tienes idea de cuán excepcional era realmente? No lo creo. Era rápido mentalmente y hábil con los pies: eso es lo que tú entiendes por excepcional.

You're a baby, said Robert. You've been asleep all your life. It's time to wake up. Why do you think they give you charity, you and the children? Because they think you are harmless, your eyes aren't opened, you don't see the truth around you.

Yo soy huérfano de verdad. Las manos no es un orfanato de verdad. –A mí me parece bastante real. ¿Cómo piensas que es un orfanato de verdad? –Todavía no lo sé. Cuando lo vea, lo reconoceré.

No se veía como un cuerpo pesado que va dejando un rastro, sino como algo parecido a una partícula liviana sobre la superficie de una tierra demasiado dormida como para notar el rasguño de las patas de las hormigas, el mordisqueo de las mariposas, el revoloteo del polvo.

Lo saben todo, hasta los más pequeños detalles, y sin embargo se resignan.

Think comforting thoughts, think strong thoughts. They can smell what are you thinking.

An intellectual apparatus marked by a conscious knowledge of its insufficiency is an evolutionary aberration.

I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life.

Most people don't know how to ask the right questions. Mondo knew how to ask questions, just at the right time, when you weren't expecting it. People paused for a few seconds, they stopped thinking about themselves and their own business, they thought, and their eyes seemed to blur, because they remembered asking those questions themselves, long ago.

La nuit, tout sent bon, disait Mondo. C'est parce qu'on ne voit pas, disait Thi Chin. on sent mieux, et on entend mieux quand on ne voit pas.

God loved me enough to make me aware, at a deep experiential level, of my own pride and sinfulness, and my desperate need for his mercy and continuing work in my life as a believer.

A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.

Life's meant to be lived blind—that's how you don't take shit for granted.

You never realized how thick your fog was until it lifted.

There came a time in everyone's life when they realized that in spite of how hard they'd been running from themselves, everywhere they went, there they were: Addictions and compulsions were nothing but marching bands of distraction, masking truths that were unpleasant, but ultimately undeniable.

Wow, she breathed. I know, right? Hung like a horse. If you're really nice-and you live through this-I'll promise not to tell V. About my size. She laughed a little, No, that you assumed I'd look at you in any fashion other than professionally.

Whither thou know'est thy ass from thy elbow

Word of advice. These have a kick, so don't suck too hard—" Holy hypoxia, Batman.

When I picked up the bird and felt its light weight in my hands, I realized that carelessness was a form of cruelty. See, I'd always told myself that because I meant no harm, anything that happened wasn't my fault. At that moment, though, I knew I was wrong. If I hadn't given the female my gun, the bird wouldn't have been shot. I was responsible even though I didn't pull the trigger.