Quotes About Awareness

we both know in a bone-deep way that there's nothing else to say.

It's only in silence that people can truly hear themselves. ... Even great joy is sometimes best expressed through silence.

transition back to the world outside? The second people felt alone, I noticed, usually in the space between things — leaving a therapy session, at a red light, standing in a checkout line, riding the elevator — they picked up devices and ran away from that feeling. In a state of perpetual distraction, they seemed to be losing the ability to be with others and losing their ability to be with themselves.

hadn't considered that if the only thing that keeps you going all day is knowing you'll get to turn on the TV after dinner, you probably are depressed.

The things we protest against the most are often the very things we need to

Second chances do come your way. Like trains, they arrive and depart regularly. Recognizing the ones that matter is the trick.

Here's to the moments when you realize the simple things are wonderful and enough.

I don't need liquor to color the world

The great tragedy is that knowledge-even incomplete-comes late.

Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think

My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.

Most of us think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, but we are actually feeling creatures that think.

I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know. I learned that I need to be very wary of my storyteller's potential for stirring up drama and trauma.

Dr. Kat Domingo proclaims, "Enlightenment is not a process of learning, it is a process of unlearning.

And I must say, there was both freedom and challenge for me in recognizing that our perception of the external world, and our relationship to it, is a product of our neurological circuitry. For all those years of my life, I really had been a figment of my own imagination!

You either photograph what you know, or you photograph what you want to know. But the giants photograph what they don't want to know.

One Half of the World does not know how the other Half lives," Franklin once wrote. His sister is his other Half.

Girls are also human beings, a point often overlooked.

Now she knew, and she couldn't un-know. Life would never be the same again.

We live days and weeks and months and years with so little awareness of life. We wait for the bad things that wake us up and shock our systems. But every now and then, on the most average day, it occurs to you that this is it. This is all there is.

The longest and most expensive journey you will ever make is the one to yourself.

There is no snooze button on life - Tara Daniels

Let's start with where you are,' he said. 'You're here.' Taking her hand, he pressed it to his chest above his heart.

Listen, we watch Law and Order. We know shit happens. And shit's happening.