Quotes About Awareness

I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.

I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

Folks make a terrible mistake when they put themselves in the devil's company and think they can outwit him. He's crafty and wants to eat you alive.

You all right?" She looked up to find William Barnett watching her from the back door. "I'm fine. Why do you ask?" "It looked like you were scowling. I figured either you were thinking of me or something was wrong.

I went into the woods with nothing to tether me to this world- to remember how to listen- to remember how to see- Someday I hope to stay who I am in the woods when out of them- Aware- Grateful- Awed

There are some days that prove that it's a man's world and we women are only here as visitors.

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.

I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home

Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.

You shift the way you are being by creating a new context from which to relate to reality.

By learning to uncover the concealed aspects of your current conversations and learning to engage in different types of new conversation, you can alter the way you are being, which, in turn, alters what's possible.

Train yourself to "listen for" requests and promises, rather than for assessments and assertions.

You probably already know what your persistent, unwanted conditions are. (A clue is: They are the things that you complain the most about.)

Shift your focus of attention from what you are doing to the way you are being. Specifically: Are you being the "invented future and context" that you created, or are you being "right," dominating and avoiding domination, and justifying the way you are?

In this situation, at this moment, what's not possible for me?

This is why I love poems: they invite me to sit down and listen to a voice speaking thoughtfully and passionately about what it feels like to be alive.

We saw to the edge of all there is - So brutal and alive it seemed to comprehend us back.

We move in and out of rooms, leaving Our dust, our voices pooled on sills. We hurry from door to door in a downpour Of days. Old trees inch up, their trunks thick With new rings. All that we see grows Into the ground. And all we live blind to Leans its deathless heft to our ears and sings.

MATTIE FAE: I don't believe you. Watchin' the baseball game and drinkin' beers. Don't you have any sense of what's going on around you? This situation is fraught. CHARLIE: Am I supposed to sit here like a statue? You're drinking whiskey. MATTIE FAE: I'm having a cocktail. CHARLIE: You're drinking straight whiskey. MATTIE FAE: Just . . . show a little class.

I'm sick of the whole notion of the enduring female. GROW UP! 'Cause while you're going through your fifth puberty, the world is falling apart and I can't handle it! (Barbara Weston)

What we do as individuals in daily life will affect not just us but other people, the world at large, and even the universe. At

To attain enlightenment, according to Dzogchen, is not to go beyond the conditioned mind as much as knowing and understanding that the conditioned aspect is a manifestation of the unconditioned.