Quotes About Awareness

And the best way to make someone unhappy, if not downright unbalanced, is to tell her that what she sees with her own eyes is not there at all.

We just made the mistake of putting it off. We thought we would lose nothing by putting it off. We thought we had plenty of time. I guess that was our key mistake, right? We thought there would always be more time. Why do we do that? I mean, not just Luis and me. Everybody. Why does everybody do that? Think we'll have more time?

I see my privilege because I have lived both with it and without it. The jury did not even see. They did not even see, Raymond. What can you do with a world where people do not even see?

God is not Tinkerbell. He does what he does whether you clap your hands or hide behind the comfort of your disbelief. Besides, you know all this. You just forgot.

Here's what I think about dying: I think it's not so much about being and then not being. I think it's more about where you are. Not whether you are.

Thank you for letting me know I have a knower. Not that you ever told me I did, exactly. But when you told me you did, that there were things you knew with your knower, I checked inside myself. Imagine my surprise.

I overheard her tell my mother that it didn't matter anyway, because we were entirely too young to understand a term like indecent exposure. She didn't realise that children file away such words, awaiting definition.

If you listen to people, they'll tell you a lot, even when they don't mean to.

By staying in the moment as much as possible. And accepting what is.

Nobody will ever shoot me, and you know it. They will shoot my friend Luis, but they will never shoot me. And the people on the other side, they don't even see it. I see my privilege because I have lived both with it and without it. The jury did not even see. They did not even see, Raymond. What can you do with

Funny how you can take a thing like carpet for granted if you always had it and you figure you always will.

So I know. It's an illness, just like it says in the phrase. It's not a moral failing. It's funny how people have empathy for a physical illness. They see it as bad luck, and they never question whether you can help it. But mental illness we still treat with shame.

Sooner or later you have to recognize the old patterns. But even that wasn't enough, she now realized. It wasn't sufficient to simply watch them play out while thinking, Yes, indeed, that is my pattern, and then continue to do it that way all the same. No. Sooner or later you had to get up off your sorry butt and do a little better for yourself.

get it. How did you not know?

Just because I don't think normally doesn't mean I don't know normal thinking when I hear it.

Don't waste any energy on anything but what's in front of you.

If you're feeling something, other people in other places are feeling it, too.

Ruth said, "Ham told me once that the problem with people is that we forget that something unexpected can happen at any time.

There's so much I see every day and don't really understand and I just don't stop to think about the fact that I don't really understand.

Nothing is more dangerous than words. Words can kill your soul.

Loving someone is knowing them.

does it seem to you like she's right around here somewhere?" I watched his forehead furrow. I think he knew what I was asking. That I was talking about some kind of sixth sense knowing. Which made my question nearly impossible to answer.

To this very day, I wonder why, when a man wants to insult another man, he calls him a woman or a girl. Now that I'm grown, I notice that these are guys with wives and girlfriends and daughters. Don't they see what they're saying?

Things don't wait for you to believe them. They happen. God is not Tinkerbell. He does what he does whether you clap your hands or hide behind the comfort of your disbelief. Besides, you know all this. You just forgot.