Quotes About Awareness

The present is swollen with self-regard for itself, but soon enough the present becomes the past. This present, this day, this very moment we inhabit—it all will be held accountable for the things it didn't know, didn't understand.

Spoiled, she saw in retrospect, but does anyone ever realize they're spoiled until the spoiling ends?

People today are always talking about prejudice and stuff, like the rest of us never knew it.

she also knew that the sadness she felt while pregnant, for strangers, for the entire world, did not feel like hormones so much as a kind of elevated consciousness, a heightened sensitivity to truth.

Dance was a visualization of divinity, a way for dancers to realize that they were not in their bodies—their bodies were inside of them.

The problem with being happy in the moment is, moments never last. Things change whether you want them to or not, which makes it only smart to keep looking ahead. That's how people avoid getting hit by cars.

Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are.

Keep your eyes open, dear. Magic is around us all the time, but if we're not looking, we miss it." . . . "But, Gali, what if you're looking for magic, but you still can't find any?" "Why, then, you make your own magic, Coco.

A secret to happiness . . . Being part of the flow of wisdom, And understanding that all things in nature have their own form of consciousness.

Por lo pronto no se me ocurre qué más comentarte, bueno, lo que ya sabes, que aquí tengo todo el tiempo del mundo para pensar en ti, que es lo que suelo hacer cuando no quiero pensar en nada

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

Ah, the minutes twinkle in and out And in and out come and go One by one, none by none, What we know, what we don't know.

They think they're the only ones who understand the real truth about the world, and that it's everyone else who's been tricked. . . . The biggest problem we have is that people like to fool themselves into thinking that they could never be fooled.

There will be boys who tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you" -Babcia

There will be boys who will tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you.

Corn can add inches in a single day; if you listened, you could hear it grow.

be something every minute of every day, be sad, be cold, be warm, be hungry, be full, be ragged or well dressed, be truthful, be a liar and a sinner, only be something every blessed minute. Make art, make the most beautiful art you can, draw everything you see, everything you feel. And when you sleep, dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is lost.

But wasn't that love? Seeing what no one else could?

yes, if you doubt it, it's true that people can feel suicidal after using marijuana, especially when they are young and use high-potency products with high frequency. I know because it happened to my son in front of my very eyes.

I believe that consciously choosing to create such memories will stretch the experience of time.

when it comes to daily life, the time-crunch narrative doesn't tell the whole story. The problem is not that we're all overworked or underrested, it's that most of us have absolutely no idea how we spend our 168 hours.

If a negative state is assumed in life, then you have to call attention to its absence.

The truth is that even ten minutes spent looking at the sky with nothing to fill the time can feel long.

Consciously lingering in pleasurable downtime reminds us that we have downtime. And that can make us feel like we have more time than when we let is slip through our hands.