Quotes About Awareness

Each of us—on the outside, in front of others—dresses in dignity, but inside himself he is well aware of these unconfessable things that pass through the secrecy of his heart.

And the air is new. And everything, instant by instant, is as it is, preparing to appear. [...] This is the only way I can live now. To be reborn moment by moment. [...] I die at every instant, and I am reborn, new and without memories: live and whole, no longer inside myself, but in every thing outside.

Do you recognize perhaps, also you, now, that a minute ago you were another?

Only an idiot would fail to see God in a meal!

Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see.

Hay que haber comenzado a perder la memoria, aunque sea sólo a retazos, para darse cuenta de que esta memoria es lo que constituye toda nuestra vida. (...) Nuestra memoria es nuestra coherencia, nuestra razón, nuestra acción, nuestro sentimiento.

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all.

Insisto: la gente mediocre es más peligrosa que los malvados. Voy a escribir mil veces en mi diario que necesito huir de la mediocridad, huir de la mediocridad, huir de la mediocridad.

La sensibilidad al dolor no tiene nada que ver con entender

O sea qué las cosas que no piensan no se pueden asustar?

Man findet sich, indem man sich verliert

Was it possible to feel love with an empty mind? For if the mind was empty, then it was empty of love too.

He who awakens is conscious in Dreamland.

One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand.

Great knowledge brings great sorrow.

qualcosa che si impara con l'età, la capacità di non affrettarsi quando si è già comunque in ritardo...

If you are aware of chronic or severe mistreatment and do not speak out against it, your silence communicates implicitly that you see nothing unacceptable taking place. Abusers interpret silence as approval, or at least as forgiveness. To abused women, meanwhile, the silence means that no one will help—just what her partner wants her to believe. Anyone who chooses to quietly look the other way therefore unwittingly becomes the abuser's ally.

An abuser tries to keep everybody focused on how he feels, so that they won't focus on how he thinks, perhaps because on some level he is aware that if you grasp the true nature of his problem, you will begin to escape his domination.

The vast majority of women who say that they are being abused are telling the truth. I know this to be true because the abusers let their guard down with me, belying their denial.

If you are aware of chronic or severe mistreatment and do not speak out against it, your silence communicates implicitly that you see nothing unacceptable taking place.

In reality, to remain neutral is to collude with the abusive man, whether or not that is your goal. If you are aware of chronic or severe mistreatment and do not speak out against it, your silence communicates implicitly that you see nothing unacceptable taking place.

Abused women aren't "codependent." It is abusers, not their partners, who create abusive relationships.

An abuser's behavior is primarily conscious – he acts deliberately rather than by accident or by losing control of himself – but the underlying thinking that drives his behavior is largely not conscious.

Pointing fingers at other countries can be a way to ignore the serious problems in our own.