Quotes About Awareness

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice.

Our communities don't need a new mobile application, website, newspaper or television broadcast. They need the ability to define the critical issues in the community, connect with those who care about those issues and have a trusted source of information about the issues.

Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process.

Wisdom is that particular emergence from your own spontaneity of an identification with what you know of the universe around you.

Dream either keeps you awake, or wouldn't let you wake

Opportunity comes often, but is only recognised once.

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

Entiendo que lo único peor que sentir dolor es no sentir absolutamente nada.

Verme al espejo era la única manera de encontrarme con alguien qué sabia quien era.

That's what happens when you love someone... you notice and notice and notice.

More and more, there were no revelations, but simply the uncovering of truths long known but dimly remembered. Everything had been written long ago. There was nothing truly new in the world, but only the slow, circular march of time that revealed the old things once again.

Sometimes you have to go somewhere else to appreciate what we have here.

The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.

Don't ask for the truth, boy, unless you're ready to hear it.

If someone grabs you in the street, hit hard and fast, because you may not get a second chance.

Didn't you say that the key is to live in the moment?" Metelon asked. "That's the excuse people use for foolish behavior.

Like everyone else at the Anchorage, except maybe for Natalie, Jonah had developed the blinders that allowed him to dance on. That prevented him from seeing the gradual decline of everyone around him; that allowed him to pretend that they weren't all heading for the same tragic end. The band played on as the ship sank beneath them. Distracted by the magic of music, they would keep dancing until the waves closed over their heads.

You can't assume that because you have plenty to eat that everyone does.

Be careful in the company of monsters that you don't become one.

People ate everyday, and often times they didn't pause when standing in the fresh produce section of the grocery store to realize the magnitude of God's earth that feeds them.

when you figure out where you're messing up and you hate that behavior bad enough, that's where all the good parts of you begin.