Quotes About Awareness

I still don't know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.

having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.

But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that's a bad way to live your life. Because you're not invincible. Nobody is. And maybe now that we've learned that, we'll be better.

I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.

The spot was empty. Empty but not void. 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.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are

Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

I've known this for a while, but you can know something for years without it really hitting you.

You don't know, but I'm noticing.

When distractions are manifold, it's best to remember what you are supposed to be doing.

What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

Anticipation is no longer needed- because the moment is now.

i know he's been looking forward to this--and i know that i've been looking forward to this. but now i have to stop looking forward and start looking at where i am. it's hard.

This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.

confrontation, n.: You turn away from the truth when asked to face it, while I stare at it too long, until it becomes a blur.

I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

That air. The air afterwards. I wanted to breathe it in. It felt right to breathe it in. Because we were breathing them in, weren't we? And the building. We were breathing it all in. And I thought, there's a part of this that's actually a part of me now. I now have that responsibility. I am alive, and I am breathing, and I can do the things this dust can't do.

My mind was getting away from reality again, and I reluctantly drew it back in. There is no getting away from reality.

He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).

There are so many minutes and hours and days we spend taking life for granted, not feeling it so much as going along with it. But then there are moments like this, when the aliveness of life is crystalline, palpable, undeniable. It is the ultimate buoy against drowning. It is the ever-saving grace.

This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear it

It was strange enough to think that Norah knew who I was before I knew who she was. That she'd been in Tris's orbit without me noticing. But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.