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Quotes About Awareness

Above all, she went on thinking, she understands life because she is not sufficiently intelligent not to understand it.
~ Clarice Lispector
Que não se acorde quem está todo ausente, quem está absorto está sentindo o pesos das coisas.
~ Clarice Lispector
God belongs to those who manage to get him. God appears when you're distracted.
~ Clarice Lispector
?injenice su zvu?ne, ali izme?u njih postoji šapat.
~ Clarice Lispector
Y cada cosa que me suceda yo la vivo aquí anotándola. Porque quiero sentir en mis manos indagadoras el nervio vivo y trémulo del hoy.
~ Clarice Lispector
Sometimes she didn't think. Sometimes a person sat there being. She didn't have to do. Being was already doing. You could be slowly or a bit fast.
~ Clarice Lispector
Of my own death, yes, I was indeed aware, for death was the future and is imaginable, and I had always had time to imagine. But the instant, the very instant - the right now - that is unimaginable, between the right now and the I there is no space: it is just now, inside me.
~ Clarice Lispector
The danger of meditating is accidentally beginning to think , and thinking is no longer meditating, thinking leads to an objective. The least dangerous thing, in meditating, is "seeing," which dispenses with thinking words.
~ Clarice Lispector
Aquello que será después es ahora. Ahora es el dominio de ahora. Y mientras dura la improvisación yo nazco.
~ Clarice Lispector
A veces tengo la impresión de que escribo por simple curiosidad intensa. Es que, al escribir, me entrego a las sorpresas más inesperadas. Es a la hora de escribir que muchas veces me vuelvo consciente de cosas, de las cuales, siendo inconsciente, antes no sabía que sabía.
~ Clarice Lispector
I am transfiguring reality—what is it that's escaping me? why don't I reach out my hand and take it? It's because I only dreamed of the world but never saw it.
~ Clarice Lispector
Sav?s nesuvokiantis individas geriau save realizuoja. Tiesa ar melas?
~ Clarice Lispector
Hay que saber sentir, pero también hay que saber cómo dejar de sentir, porque si la experiencia es sublime puede volverse igual de peligros.
~ Clarice Lispector
Meu mistério é simples: eu não sei como estar viva.
~ Clarice Lispector
The struggle to reach reality—that's the main objective of this creature who tries, in every way, to cling to whatever exists by means of a total vision of things. I meant to make clear too the way vision—the way of seeing, the viewpoint—alters reality, constructing it. A house is not only constructed with stones, cement etc. A man's way of looking constructs it too.
~ Clarice Lispector
Muchas veces nuestra libertad es tan intensa que miramos para otro lado.
~ Clarice Lispector
And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.
~ Clarice Lispector
Meu instinto precedera a minha inteligência.
~ Clarice Lispector
It's like this: only when man takes notice through his simple gaze does a beginning appear to him.
~ Clarice Lispector
Avísenme si empiezo a convertirme en demasiado yo misma»
~ Clarice Lispector
A guerra é boa talvez no sentido de chamar a atenção para certos problemas.
~ Clarice Lispector
É preciso que eu não esqueça. pensei, que fui feliz, que estou feliz mais do que se pode ser. Mas esqueci, sempre esqueci.
~ Clarice Lispector
Mesmo na liberdade, quando escolhia alegre novas veredas, reconhecia-as depois. Ser livre era seguir-se afinal, e eis de novo o caminho já traçado. Ela só veria o que já possuía dentro de si. Perdido pois o gosto de imaginar.
~ Clarice Lispector
What did I know about whatever it was that others obviously saw in me? how would I know if I went around with my stomach pressed into the dust of the ground. Truth has no witness? being isn't knowing? If a person doesn't look and doesn't see, does the truth exist anyway? The truth that doesn't transmit itself even to those who can see. Is that the secret of being a person?
~ Clarice Lispector