Quotes About Awareness

The world at large is finally waking up to the fact that we can no longer ignore the victims of intimate violence and the link between intimate violence and international violence, including terrorism.

Remaining unconscious about our innate needs takes an enormous emotional and physical toll on our bodies and spirits. Not recognizing our needs for rest, intimacy, touch, good nutrition, acknowledgment, and so on—and not knowing how to get these needs met directly—prevents us from being connected with our inner guidance.

emotional stress of those around them, as Colette Baron-Reid pointed out in her book Weight Loss for People Who Feel Too Much (Harmony, 2013).

A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels.

We don't even know that we're dealing with one of these masters of Darkness until we become physically ill, lose our friends, our jobs, our incomes, our fertile years, and eventually even our self-esteem and dignity.

Si on veut rester content il ne faut pas voir le monde.

You can only act on what you do know. What your heart and your head and your gut tell you is right.

I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.

I am acutely aware that like a slip of paper in the wind, something in his nature eludes my grasp.

It feels as if my life is moving forward at two separate speeds, one at the usual pace, with its predictable rhythms and familiar inhabitants, and the other rushing ahead, a blur of color and sound and sensation. It's clear to me now that for twenty years I have gone through the motions of each day like a dumb animal, neither daring to hope for a different kind of life nor even knowing enough to desire one.

I read once that the act of observing changes the nature of what is observed.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. —MADELEINE L'ENGLE, The Arm of the Starfish

I couldn't have imagined how much more there was to lose.

WHEN YOUR WORLD is small, you learn every inch of it. You can trace it in the dark; you navigate it in your sleep.

The truth is, when I'm immersed in a book I'm less aware of the pain in my unpredictable arms and legs.

I think you're used to being observed but not really ... seen.

It's clear to me now that for twenty years I have gone through the motions of each day like a dumb animal, neither daring to hope for a different kind of life nor even knowing enough to desire one.

In that moment I was aware of life pulsing all around me, indifferent to me. I was just a tiny part of a vast living, breathing ecosystem. I wasn't at the center of anything

Sometimes it's more terrible and more stupid to sit, paralyzed, as events slip past you. A certain kind of guardian angel must watch over fools as they rush in.

The second day of the book tour I stopped an interviewer and said, "Aren't you asking the wrong question?" The interviewer stared at me blankly. "The question is not really why I chose to share my experiences with other people. The question we should be dealing with is why does anyone mistreat their children? I think that's what we should be talking about.

When one is ready, when we choose, the understanding will be a part of life. Then we are guided very differently.