Quotes About Awareness

The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. Let Big Brother do the singing and dancing for you. Be a reporter. Be a good witness. A grateful member of the audience.

Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

The cancer I don't have is everywhere now.

This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

Suicide is very contagious.

There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.

It doesn't matter for crap that you've got three years of sobriety or that you finally look good in a two-piece bathing suit or you've met that perfect someone and you've fallen deeply, wildly, passionately in love. Today, as you pick up your dry cleaning, fax those reports, fold your laundry, or wash the dinner dishes, something you'd never expect is already stalking you.

Just for the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

You wake up, and that's enough.

Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

It would be that time--late at night-- when your ears reach out for any sound. When you can see more with your eyes closed than open.

Rant Casey used to say, No matter what happens, it's always now... Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger.

Screw the idea of inventing monsters. Here, we just had to look around. Pay attention.

We're all here. Alive and unwell.

You can tell peo­ple the truth, but they'll nev­er be­lieve you un­til the event. Un­til it's too late. In the mean­time, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trou­ble.

Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake and shape our futures.

When you're twenty-four," Marla says, "you have no idea how far you can really fall, but I was a fast learner.

The first time you meet that some­one spe­cial, you can count on them one day be­ing dead and in the ground.

If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you.

In the outside world, he told me, there was no real silence.