Quotes About Awareness

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

You know, more children die under the age of five when the parents are not educated.

That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn.

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

I think at a certain age I became conscious of the power of words. And it was fairly late. I was kind of a goofball - but I was always subconsciously thinking about issues.

At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women with their whole lives ahead of them. This one act of violence will alter their lives forever.

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.

Our thoughts determine our age.

You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

I feel like I know a lot of music stuff that most people my age don't know, because people that were slightly older were into it.

I don't think, as a 15-year-old, you're that conscious about a lifetime career. I didn't think: "I'm a serious actor." I never studied acting or anything when I was that age.

The way that the soul is expressed now, and the only way it expresses itself in this age, is through the senses.

I think in this day and age it's very important.

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Of course, you can't force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover...we are not alone.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.