Quotes About Awareness

Sometimes it doesn't matter that there was any time before this time. Sometimes it doesn't matter that it's night or day or now or then. Sometimes where you are is enough. It's not that time stops or that it hasn't started. This is time. You are here. This caught moment opening into a lifetime.

I asked my mother why we couldn't have books and she said, 'The trouble with a book is that you never know what's in it until it's too late.' I thought to myself, 'Too late for what?

Our contradictions are never so to ourselves.

Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance.

There's this world,' she banged the wall graphically, 'and there's this world,' she thumped her chest. 'If you want to make sense of either, you have to take notice of both.

It was very bad for me that my deafness happened at around the same time as I discovered my clitoris.

Only humans can know what it means to strip a human being of being human.

We always think the thing we need to transform everything - the miracle - is elsewhere, but often it is right next to us. Sometimes it is us, ourselves.

What you think is the heart might well be another organ.

What is unconscious does not speak and that includes the hidden parts of himself.

Contentment is a feeling you say? Are you sure it's not an absence of feeling?

They live in the opposite of the past. I said, You mean the future? No, Ry. The opposite of the past is the present. Anyone can live in a past that is gone or a future that does not exist. The opposite of either position is the present.

Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a species as smart as Homo sapiens [Strange New World, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/boo... ].

It is no use trying to assume again the state of innocence and acceptance of the animal or the child. This time it has to be conscious. To circle about in such gladness as his, is the effort of a whole lifetime.

We know the world by and through our bodies.

It never happened, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there to happen. All of that has been a brutal lesson to me in not overlooking or misunderstanding what is actually there, in your hands, now. We always think the thing we need to transform everything--the miracle--is elsewhere, but often it is right next to us. Sometimes it is us, ourselves.

The moment has been waiting the way the top step of the stairs waits for the sleepwalker.

Most of us can only see the world we know.

I nodded. He threw his paper at me. Here, keep up with the world, even if you don't want to join it.

Stop thinking, she said. The more you think, the faster you cut your own throat.

I don't care about the facts, Domino, I care about how I feel. How I feel will change, I want to remember that.

But I tell you, Henri, that every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.

I think I may have missed the world, that the one I've seen is a decoy to get me off the scent.

In theory you are right... Time without end. In practice we both wear a watch.