Quotes About Awareness

Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They're bored with their lives, and there's nothing they can do about it. They're eaten alive by longing, and they're dead before they die.

Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.

You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to figure out what's going on here!

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one's cues.

He'd been free his whole life, if only he'd known it.

she was smart enough to know whose problem that was, and it wasn't hers.

The others were conspicuously silent, or talked among themselves, elaborately play-acting that they were unaware of the fact that Quentin was conversing with a drunk magic bear.

There's no getting away from yourself. Not even in Fillory.

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.

Kids are not physical creatures, and they're not stupid. They know all about violence and power and raw emotions. What's really scary is when adults pretend that such things don't exist." (Grossman's review of The Hunger Games in "Time" magazine, Sept. 7, 2009)

He just stared at his lap and waited for each successive second to impose itself on him in turn like an uninvited guest the way the previous one had.

Time was defined by change, and very little changed for a blue whale. He noticed everything but was concerned with nothing.

She was feeling something—a new feeling. Not even a feeling exactly, more like she wasn't feeling a lot of things that she was used to feeling. She wasn't tired, or bored, or frustrated, or wishing she was somewhere else doing something else. All that was cleared away. She still had basically no idea what was going on, but she knew she was free to be herself, right here, right now, in the moment. She couldn't wait to find out what she was going to feel next.

At that moment, when he should have been most lucidly present, he had no idea whether he was lying or telling the truth.

She was especially confident when it came to pointing out other people's mistakes. Not that she was a know-it-all—it didn't seem to be an ego thing with her. She just assumed that everybody shared her desire for everybody to be clear on everything, and she'd expect you to do the same for her.

epiphenomenon. "But

The end of the world is coming, and I should really be there for that." "Sure,

It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full

This is life, he kept saying to himself. That was being dead, and this is being alive. That was death, this is life. I will never confuse them again.

Ya?am?n?z?n belli bir döneminde olaylarla ilgili bak?? aç?n?z?n tümden de?i?ti?i, o ana dek gördü?ünüz her ?eyin henüz bilmedi?iniz öbür yüzünü size döndürdü?ünü ans?z?n fark etti?iniz oldu mu hiç sevgili okurum?

Tothom vol canviar el món, però ningú pensa a canviar-se ell mateix

Scese, evitando di guardarla a lungo, come si fa col sole; ma vedeva lei, come si vede il sole, anche senza guardare.

Wouldn't it be nice if life took a cue from horse racing and a gun went off when it was time for us to get moving? Life rarely sends us a signal as clear as a starter's pistol. It's up to us to recognize when it's time to just start.

The dream-state, from the standpoint of the waking, consists only of thinking and feeling. But the dreamer has no idea that he is dreaming, for according to his experience, tangible objects are also perceived. Thus the dream-state is definable in exactly the same terms as the waking.