Quotes About Awareness

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.

I measure the moment in the heartbeats I skip

Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.

The world, right now, is only us.

If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.

I have always been aware of how I break. I know what kind of situations will break me. I know what kind of people will do it. I know how much it will hurt.

If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.

If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?

But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.

I am having a fucking great time, and the amazing thing is that I realize it even as it's happening.

People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence.

What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing

What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it's been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.

We walk into a bar, and you're aware of all the eyes on you. We walk into a bar, and I'm aware of all the eyes on you, too. For you, this translate into confidence. But me? All I can feel is doubt.

It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.

I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.

We hold hands as we walk through town. If anybody notices, nobody cares. I know we all like to think of the heart as the center of the body but at this moment, every conscious part of me is in the hand that he holds. It is through that hand, that feeling, that I experience everything else.

You can't know what it is like for us now--you will always be one step behind. Be thankful for that. You can't know what it was like for us then--you will always be one step ahead. Be thankful for that, too.

I don't want to know anything, and I want to know it all

I guess it's a choice we make, she said. What's a choice? I asked. And she said, How much of the world we let in.

taciturn , adj. There are days you come home silent. You say words, but you're still silent. I used to bombard you with conversational crowbars, but now I simply let the apartment fall mute. I hear you in the room -- turning on music, typing on the keys, getting up for a drink, shifting in your chair. I try to have my conversation with those sounds.