Quotes About Awareness

The world is always ready to be amazed, but the self, that lynx-eyed monitor, sees all the subterfuges, all the cut corners, and is not deceived.

I hadn't eaten anything at lunch, yet I wasn't hungry. The belly knows when it's not going to be fed and, like an old dog, settles down to sleep. That's how it is, I find, with the creature and its comforts, so that all is not ill, and sometimes the Lord does temper the wind to the shorn lamb.

He had a habit also, when being spoken to, no matter how earnestly, of turning very slowly on his heel and limping a little way away, head bowed, and then stopping to stand with his back turned and hands clasped behind him, so that one could not be sure that he was still listening to what one was saying, or had sunk into altogether more profound communings with himself.

Å»aden szczegóÅ' ludzkiego oblicza nie zniesie dÅ'u?szej obserwacji.

ineluctable laws of which were everywhere at work. This gnosis

So, reader, should you ever find yourself writing about the world, take care not to nibble at the many tempting symbols she sets squarely in your path, or you'll be baited into saying things you don't really mean, and offending the people you want most to entertain. Develop, if you can, the technique of the pall bearers and myself: smile, to be sure -- for fucking dogs are truly funny -- but walk on and say nothing, as though you hadn't noticed.

2. Lake Erie The wisdom to recognize and halt follows the know-how to pollute past rescue.

The necessity for an observer makes perfect observation impossible.

According to the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, more than 8 percent of Savannah's adults were "known alcoholics

would presume nothing. I would take notes.

I would presume nothing. I would take notes.

It's not their fault they do not know The birdsong from the radio.

excited souls with an abiding sense of peace. Everything ranging from the smallest plants to the very air seemed more than alive; it all possessed the ability to give life.

What we don't keep in focus before us eventually fades.

Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.

What you learn is often determined by what you need to know. If you think you're weak, you will learn that you are strong. If you think you are indestructible, you will learn that you are fragile. In the end though, you will learn that you are human. You are no more and no less than all those who are learning their lessons as you learn yours.

Just don't ever tell yourself that you didn't know.... That would be the worst crime of all.

You have many years ahead of you to come to terms with your complicity in these matters. Just don't ever tell yourself that you didn't know." She released him now from her grip. "That would be the worst crime of all.

It was … difficult at first,' he said. 'I am a person. But I seemed to forget in time …' 'Forget what?' 'That they were people too.

Tengo la sensación de que sólo me limito a respirar. Y existe una diferencia entre respirar y seguir viviendo.

Que uno contemple el cielo por la noche no lo convierte en astrónomo.

Hay cosas que sencillamente están ahí, sin molestar a nadie, esperando a que las descubran.

They were afraid of them, you see. Frightened of ideas. Frightened of the truth. People still are

You can hurt me if you like, I whispered, closing my eyes, thinking that he might slap me hard, drive his fist into my stomach, break my nose. Why would you want that? he asked, his tone betraying an innocence that believed his beauty. So I'll know that I'm alive.