Quotes About Awareness

And in that moment Dianora had a truth brought home to her with finality: how something can seem quite unchanged in all the small surface details of existence where things never really change, men and women being what they are, but how the core, the pulse, the kernel of everything can still have become utterly unlike what it had been before.

We live among mysteries. Love is one, there are others. We must not imagine we understand all there is to know about the world.

The truer measure of power, Brandin had once said to her, wouldn't be found in having twenty heralds deafen a room by proclaiming one's arrival. Any fool in funds for a day could rivet attention that way. The more testing course, the truer measure, was to enter unobtrusively and observe what happened.

He was also aware that memory could mislead you, or be lost. He vividly remembered the day he was married, for example, but everything blurred in and around the time his wife had died, and that was much, much later.

Watching, letting the growth of wisdom guide him into silence

Ammar's eyes opened without warning, vivid and blue, the same color as her own. He looked at her. She watched him settle into an awareness of the day, what morning it was.

To work on a movement you need: A clear picture or feeling of how it is now A clear picture or feeling of how it should be A real-time feedback mechanism for identifying the difference. And

time Corrie May saw her more clearly than

How little, after all, one knew about the people one knew best

This displacement between then and now created an ever-present sense of unease, like a low-frequency sound she couldn't hear clearly enough to identify, but that was disturbing nonetheless.

During my research for this book, I discovered more than 16,000 patients die annually from the use of prescription and over-the-counter NSAIDs. I also learned more than 100,000 hospital admissions yearly could be attributed to GI bleeding from NSAIDs alone (Strand 173). Although I knew about the risk of GI bleeding and ulceration, the gravity of these statistics was never brought to my attention by any of the companies for which I sold NSAIDs.

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.

It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.

Silence is a sounding thing, to one who listens hungrily.

A writer needs to read almost more than his eyes can bear, to know what is going, & what has gone on.... And a writer needs general knowledge. And a writer needs to write. And a writer needs to live richly with eyes open, & heart, too." —

Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical disguise.

She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

When you're in the middle of your depression, pay good attention to it, because, tended carefully, you never know where it might lead you.

The crucial thing here is not to listen to your mind. Your mind has got its basic communication lines crossed. If you try to fly in this flak you will shoot down your own aircraft. Keep close to yourself...fly under your own radar. Let the anti-aircraft guns discharge their ammunition into the plaid sky. Steal home, undetected even by yourself. Whatever you do, in this state, don't think.

Cognitive therapists focus on getting patients to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty. Being positive has become rather a fetish. A more radical tactic would be to abolish the need for evaluation and just accept the glass as it is, whether it be cracked or brimming.

The opposite of depression isn't feeling happy but being fully alive, however painful

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?