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Quotes About Awareness

Does kittykat know there's a pigeon on the clothes closet?
~ Jack Kerouac
I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds.
~ Jack Kerouac
How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning?
~ Jack Kerouac
But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
~ Jack Kerouac
I am not 'I am' but just a spy in somebody's body.
~ Jack Kerouac
the point being that we know what IT is and we know TIME and we know that everything is really FINE...
~ Jack Kerouac
Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left hand is doing'... Page 100.
~ Jack Kerouac
Life is holy and every moment is precious.
~ Jack Kerouac
Si seguis asi vais a volveros locos, pero por favor mantenedme al corriente de lo que os sucede en el camino.
~ Jack Kerouac
Gustavo Solivellas dice: Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream (Jack Kerouac)
~ Jack Kerouac
As I was hiking down the mountain woth my pack I turned and I knelt on the trail and said Thank you, Shack. The I added Blah with a little grin, because I knew that shack and that mountain would know what that meant, and turned and went on down the trail back to this world.
~ Jack Kerouac
We've got to have mind-collecting weeks in our zendos where your mind tries to fly off like a Tinker Toy and like a good soldier you put it back together with your eyes closed except of course the whole thing is wrong.
~ Jack Kerouac
Don't be a sucker all your life, dummy up, ya dope.
~ Jack Kerouac
What difference does it make after all? For what's heaven? What's Earth? All in the mind.
~ Jack Kerouac
I had an overwhelming urge to close my eyes in company. I think the girls were terrified of this. "What's he always sitting with his eyes closed for?
~ Jack Kerouac
All these people," said Japhy, "they all got white-tiled toilets and take big dirty craps like bears in the mountains, but it's all washed away to convenient supervised sewers and nobody thinks of crap any more or realizes that their origin is shit and civet and scum of the sea. They spend all day washing their hands with creamy soaps they secretly wanta eat in the bathroom." He had a million ideas, he had 'em all.
~ Jack Kerouac
Only one thing I'll say for the people watching television, the millions and millions of the One Eye: they're not hurting anyone while they're sitting in front of that Eye. But neither was Japhy….
~ Jack Kerouac
One night in a meditation vision Avalokitesvara the Hearer and Answerer of Prayer said to me 'You are empowered to remind people that they are utterly free' so I laid my hand on myself to remind myself first and then felt gay, yelled 'Ta,' opened my eyes, and a shooting star shot.
~ Jack Kerouac
When you write about the Banana King you write about the human-interest things of life." I told him I didn't give a damn about the Banana King. "Until you learn to realize the importance of the Banana King you will know absolutely nothing about the human-interest things of the world," said Remi emphatically.
~ Jack Kerouac
Non è forse vero che si comincia a vivere da bambini innocenti che credono a tutto quello che succede sotto il tetto paterno? Poi arriva il giorno dei Laodicei, quando si capisce di essere sfiniti e infelici e poveri e ciechi e nudi, e con facce da spettri orridi e dolenti ci si incammina rabbrividendo lungo il sentiero da incubo della vita.
~ Jack Kerouac
Se continuate così diventerete pazzi tutti e due, però fatemi sapere quel che succede mentre procedete.»
~ Jack Kerouac
Cuanto más te acercas a la auténtica materia, a la piedra y al aire y al fuego y a la madera, muchacho, el mundo resulta más espiritual. Toda esa gente que se considera materialista a ultranza no sabe nada de eso. Se consideran gente práctica y tienen la cabeza llena de ideas y nociones confusas. -Levantó la mano-. Escucha esa ardilla.
~ Jack Kerouac
We left the car parked, and all three of us abreast went down the Spanish street into the middle of the dull brown lights. Old men sat on chairs in the night and looked like Oriental junkies and oracles. No one was actually looking at us, yet everybody was aware of everything we did.
~ Jack Kerouac
Men lad bevidstheden være klar over at selvom kødet er plaget, er tilværelsens omstændigheder temmelig vidunderlige.
~ Jack Kerouac