Quotes About Awareness

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

What does it mean to have to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye? … I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don't know the past, you can't understand the present and plan properly for the future.

No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.

You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it. ... You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to.

It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.

Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air.

You can be affected by a person because of something particular they said or did but sometimes how a person was, a manner of being, that gets most deeply absorbed, and prompts you to revisit certain parts of your life with an enhanced perspective, flowing forward right up to now.

That Fan did not see any of this is not so ironic, for all along her journey we've observed more of her than she'll ever know. She moves on, she pushes forward, this her guileless calling, and we have to remind ourselves that it's perhaps more laudable simply to keep heading out into the world than always tilting to leave one's mark on it.

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

Then, putting his palm on top of my head, like a warm hat, he whispered, "Pay attention. Be a person for whom love is not lost.

They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.

we better be living the life we want to live and not wasting our numbered days on what doesn't matter.

A third aspect of Goddess spirituality is the perceptual shift from the death-based sense of existence that underlies patriarchal culture to a regeneration-based awareness, an embrace of life as a cycle of creative rebirths, a dynamic participation in the processes of infinity.

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

we all tend to see what we are looking for.

SOMETIMES OUR WAY OF THINKING LIMITS WHAT WE CAN SEE.