Quotes About Awareness

people are most afraid of things they don't understand, and if something frightened you, you should get closer to it. That didn't mean it wouldn't still be an awful thing, but the awful you knew was easier to handle than the awful you imagined. So

He was thinking about what his father had said, how the quiet of the morning was something he had almost entirely to himself, something he would come to appreciate. It was true. On the streets of Aurora in that early hour, he was almost always alone. Sometimes lights were on in a room, usually a kitchen, or on rare occasions, a car might drift past, but he and Jackson owned the sidewalks and the morning was his.

What is a soul? I believe it is our connection with the Creator and our deep awareness of our connection with all things created by him.

You are not prepared.

We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand that the living world cannot be replicated. There will never be another setup like the one in which we thrived. Ruin it and we will have lost ourselves, and that is craziness.

People only will make an effort to save something they care about, and to care about it, they have to know about it.

It was a limitation of human consciousness: We live only in the future and past, we cannot perceive now. Now occupies no space, a hypothetical gap between future and past. Only an exceptional few could feel now athletes and jazzmen and, yes, thieves...

Like I knew it was bad. And there were these posters.

But things were racing too fast to linger over the past or future. There was only now.

Remember, the surest way to lose your rights is to take them for granted.

He closed his eyes for a moment and tasted the emotions before they slipped away.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't you ecstatic?

I had suspected there might be some shoe discarding so I made sure my socks were without holes that day.

How little we really know about the life all around us. Would we be so cavalier and ruthless with it if we understood it better?

I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

Is it that the eye finds what the mind is seeking?

Leroy unscrewed the hose from its faucet and prepared to put it away in the basement, thinking: Nobody can put nothing over on Rhoda, I'll say that much for her. And nobody can put nothing over on me, neither. I guess Rhoda and me are just alike. But in this he was mistaken, as we shall see in time, for Rhoda was able to put into action the things that he could only turn over in his mind as fantasies.

And part of growin' up is learnin' to see the world through other men's eyes.

We humans have the ability to see beyond our species, and that ability confers a responsibility.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else

The road, it seemed, was a river and he was the only one who knew the stepping-stones.

I am aware that I am aware

Start admiring the vastness of the forest and a tree will surely fall on you, bashing your skull for the crime of perspective.