Quotes About Awareness

Even extraordinary circumstances could seem perfectly natural, simply because they were as they were; and in that case the awareness of their extraordinariness only dawned when others found them extraordinary.

Alles waar je je wil en je aandacht op richt, wordt onzichtbaar, onbereikbaar, dat is tenminste mijn ervaring. Je ziet de dingen pas werkelijk uit je ooghoeken, als je eigenlijk ergens anders mee bezig bent. Het is net of de werkelijkheid zich dan gepasseerd voelt, het niet neemt en zich aan je opdringt.

but he would bet his life that it had a white CB antenna on the roof and that the driver was listening to police bands.

How many scenes in your life like this have you missed? I think. The unseen beauty of nature. Like today.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you.

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?

It may behoove you to learn why you do what you do,

What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it.

COMPARISON OF THE CONSCIOUS MIND AND THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

It is as though a poem gave the reader as he left it a single, new word, never before spoken and impossible to actually enunciate, but self-evident as an active principle in the reader's consciousness henceforward.

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

We live not in the world outside, but in a world inside ourselves.

While at the wheel, you are simultaneously dealing with issues in time, space, physics, and potentially, life and death – and all the while, you're wondering who's bringing the guacamole.

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

Please, people, do not fuck with depression. It's merciless. All it wants is to get you in a room alone and kill you. Take care of yourself.

Funny how that is. The jockey never recalls using a whip. The horse never forgets

I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.

I actually took them all on quite handily, although I learned when I came to study the issue that I was completely wrong. I also came to believe that the war on drugs is one of the last vestiges of institutionalized racism in our society.

The key to all mysteries and the source of all Illumination lies deep within the self. ROSICRUCIAN MANUSCRIPT