Quotes About Awareness

slowly lowered herself to the mat. She placed her hands, palms up, on her thighs and spread her knees. Arching her back, she gave them all a lovely view of her cunt, all the while keeping her eyes properly downcast.

I've come to realize I've spent a lifetime ignoring whole chunks of myself. If feelings didn't fit in with my carefully constructed view of the world and my place in it, I just shut them down. I don't have anyone or anything to blame, unless you can blame a whole society and the way men are taught to look at and approach the world.

Humans create terrible things. Why do they make things that only bring them pain? It's because they don't know what's comfortable anymore. So perhaps they don't know that they are in pain…

Even though this world is narrow, it is wide... to those who understand. This world isn't the only one.

The guy who isn't in the know can't understand ... how hard it is to be in the know and still not say.

You can't deceive me with a dream.

Whether you understand it or don't understand . . . whether you accept it or not . . . what is, is. That's all there is to it.

Humans create terrible things. Why do they make things that only bring them pain? It's because they don't know what's comfortable anymore. So perhaps they don't know they are in pain.

For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?

The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.

You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.

dire à la voix qu'il est tard)

Predictable marketing requires an understanding of the circumstances in which customers buy or use things. Specifically, customers—people and companies—have "jobs" that arise regularly and need to get done. When customers become aware of a job that they need to get done in their lives, they look around for a product or service that they can "hire" to get the job done.

People who don't want to do something that they know they should do have marvelously inventive abilities to ignore what they know. They

Leben heißt nicht hundert Jahre alt werden, Leben heißt fühlen und fühlen machen, daß man da sey, such Genuß, den man nimmt, und mit sich wiedergiebt.

Leben heißt nicht hundert Jahre alt werden, Leben heißt fühlen und fühlen machen, daß man da sey, durch Genuß, den man nimmt, und mit sich wiedergiebt.

The walls cried out to him. And voices cried out as well from the shadow of the past. He stood and listened to them, and now a strange thing struck him. The voices were there, but he did not hear the words.

But when a tree speaks to one, what is one to do? On

I sometimes think, said Jason, that the soul may be a state of mind.

Beauty doesn't see itself and when it does something is lost.

The incurious eye misses the obvious, the subtle, the subtext. The incurious eye is glazed in a cataract of ignorance and indifference. The incurious eye is neither blind nor myopic. It is empty.

Anyone who lives sees, but he who moves sees more.

Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now--in this bright, laughing moment--and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.