Quotes About Awareness

if we seek, and are aware we have missed the moment we seek, our own absolute moment in time, then we live out our lives unfulfilled. In the words of an eastern proverb: we die with our eyes open – we cannot rest; even in death we are still looking for it.

You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit.

Where certainty is often a refusal to think, to question, to reason - a refusal to engage in the kind of Socratic dialogue with unbelief that the Quran urges - faith requires an awareness of the possibility of being wrong, which is why it is perhaps best defined in Hebrews 11:1 as "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not see.

IF you can approach Pilates as a business and have awareness of your own monetary needs, there is no reason why you can't make money.

You have to find yourself. When you meet him again, you have to know who you are. He's finding out who he is.

The glow of delicioous tension coudn't be faked, not at any price. So when you leave, that's when you realise you've been living in a lie.

The epidemic of violence against sex workers would be a national emergency if any other group were involved; but sex workers, particularly those who are working on the street and may have addictions or be radicalized, have not been the object of any great concern.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness — otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

the Saint did not seem to be aware that he was multiplying miracles with an easy grace that would have made a Grand Lama look like a third-rate three-card man.

Lee was conscious that Nizar watched her trying to adjust her abaya . She knew everyone could tell a Western woman by her awkwardness and her shoes.

I had learned a lot in three weeks. I realized that the world could do more than just judge me, it wielded tremendous power over me.

Sacred time is always in the Present.

The powers who controlled the United States didn't want the people to know their history. If the people knew their history, they would realize they must rise up.

That was the first time Tayo had realized that the man's skin was not much different from his own. The skin. He saw the skin of the corpses again and again, in ditches on either side of the long muddy road - skin that was stretched shiny and dark over bloated hands; even white men were darker after death. There was no difference when they were swollen and covered with flies. That had become the worst thing for Tayo: they looked too familiar even when they were alive.

He wanted to walk until he recognized himself again.

For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.

Lucy Stone wasn't usually a clock watcher. Time didn't pass slowly for her; it galloped ahead of her.

I think they call it EQ, emotional quotient. It's kind of like IQ, but it means you're able to sense shifts in

Some truths were too difficult to accept, so the mind manufactured excuses as a way of denying what it already knew.

Too many realizers, not enough realizing.

We are concentrates, charged with the task in life of avoiding dilution.

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.