Quotes About Awareness

Don't let your heart be a casualty of your head." She wanted Masha to understand that her state of mind was just as important as the state of her body.

All of a sudden she thought she had all the time in the world. Pride comes before someone trips you flat on your face.

While you look at the stars tonight I want you to reflect on two koans. The first one is this: Out of nowhere the mind comes forth." Masha paused. "And the second: Show me your original face, the one you had before your parents were born.

In the United States, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends every day. Every nine seconds in the United States a woman is assaulted or beaten. Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women—more than that caused by car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined.

The violence of her thoughts startled her and woke her up. She

Sam always said she was overly sensitive to sounds because she was a musician, but she didn't think that was true; he was just astonishingly insensitive to them.

Everyone seemed to be deliberately not looking at her, the way people did when you had food in your teeth and they didn't want to tell you, so they kept trying not to see.

She hadn't realized that you could spend your whole life looking at the people you loved in an oblique, halfhearted way, as if you were deliberately blurring your vision, until something like this happened, and then just looking at that person could be terrifying.

was funny how she'd always thought she had ample supplies of empathy; it turned out that to be truly empathetic she had to experience it.

They were real, there was real pain in the world, right this very moment people were suffering unimaginable atrocities and you couldn't close your heart completely, but you couldn't leave it wide open either, because otherwise how could you possibly live your life, when through pure, random luck you got to live in paradise? You had to register the existence of evil, do the little that you could, and then close your mind and think about new shoes.

Domestic violence victims often don't look at all like you'd expect them to look," said Susi. "And their stories don't always sound as black-and-white as you'd expect them to sound.

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow death comes.

And then she felt it. It was like when you burn yourself on a hot plate and at first you think, Huh, that should have hurt more, and then it does hurt more, and then all of a sudden it hurts like hell.

Eat when you're hungry. That's a privilege, you know, to eat when you're hungry, when there are people starving in this world.

You will eat slowly and mindfully and only what your body needs.

the screen. "Let me leave you with these words: 'Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow death comes.' The Buddha." She

He lived in the moment, as you were meant to do. He practised mindfulness. No yesterday. No tomorrow. Just now.

Clementine learned to feel bad about her white middle-class privilege long before it became fashionable.

She could feel her cheeks burn as she typed in the two shameful words. "Domestic." "Violence.

Seven minutes. Her mistake could be measured in minutes. Marla was the only person who knew. Ed never knew.

I think perhaps we've all learned to be a little kinder to one another. And to document everything. Everything.

He didn't tell them how Britain's national suicide rate dropped by a third when coal gas was phased out, because once people no longer had the option to impulsively stick their head in the oven, there was time for their dark and dreadful impulses to pass.

I didn't properly appreciate one damned moment.

Monkey brain refers to the way your mind swings from thought to thought, like a monkey swinging from branch to branch.