Quotes About Awareness

Someone's in here," I called, though that was obvious. Someone was in here. It was me. I was here. I felt in a way I hadn't in ages: the me inside of me, occupying my spot in the fathomless Milky Way.

I felt it in a way I hadn't in ages: the me inside of me, occupying my spot in the fathomless Milky Way.

As I passed them, I felt the presence of my mother so acutely that I had the sensation that she was there; once I even paused to look around for her before I could go on.

I walked through the spiderwebs, feeling them like magic on my face.

Very nice," said Rick after a while. "Very nice," he repeated, with more emphasis the second time. "What is?" I asked, turning to him, though I knew. "Everything," he said. And it was true.

It was as if I'd finally come across a mountian lion and I'd remembered, against all instinct, not to run. Not to incite him with my fast motions or antagonize him with my anger or arouse him with my fear.

We're all going to die, Johnny. Hit the iron bell like it's dinnertime.

just close your eyes and remember everything you already know.

I can't help but quote the former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, who quite wisely said: "There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know.

We act as if we don't know that awful things happen to all sorts of people every second of every day and the only thing that's changed about the world or the existence or nonexistence of God or the color of the sky is that the awful thing is happening to us.

You're here. So be here, dear one. You're okay with us for now.

It's a useful way to see what's there. A lot of times, it isn't much.

The mission of literature is to tell us who we are."—Cheryl Strayed @CherylStrayed

Travel by foot. There is so much you can't identify at top speed.

She looked at her parents, clear-eyed and astonished, like she understood exactly who she was for the very first time. A prisoner of her own body.

Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many

I don't think there's a single dumbass thing I've done in my adult life that I didn't know was a dumbass thing to do while I was doing it. Even when I justified it to myself—as I did every damn time—the truest part of me knew I was doing the wrong thing. Always.

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true

Maybe the meaning was in how we heard the sound, but did nothing about it until it was so loud we had no choice.

Everyone's sleeping through life Afraid that their questions Just might have answers

It's not cool to be an alcoholic.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

All of my life has been a relearning to pray- a letting go of incantational magic, petition, and the vain repetition "Me, Lord, Me," instead watching attentively for the light that burns at the center of every star, every cell, every living creature, every human heart. Learning to pray, then, as I understand it, is learning to listen with the mind and heart- making oneself attentive to each exquisite detail of the world.

One thing guys know is when to shut up.