Quotes About Awareness

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.

As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before.

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.

For Nature is so full of variety, that our weak Senses cannot perceive all the various sorts of her Creatures; neither is there any one object perceptible by all our Senses, no more then several objects are by one sense.

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

We must know who we are, so we can know what we want, so we don't end up wanting the wrong thing and get it and realize we don't want it, because by then it is too late.

the comic inadequacy of consciousness trying to make terms with the rest of everything that is.

It was easier to ignore the consideration of paternal genes then than it would be now. We did not then consider ourselves held in the genetic trap. We thought each infant was born pure and new and holy: a gold baby, a luminous lamb. We did not know that certain forms of breast cancer were programmed and almost ineluctable, and we would not have believed you if you had told us that in our lifetime young women would be subjecting themselves to preventative mastectomies.

I call them sacred echoes because I noticed that throughout my relationships, daily life, and study, the same scripturally sound idea or phrase or word will keep reappearing until I can no longer avoid its presence." -The Sacred Echo

Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Dear God, help me pay attention! Dear God, help me keep my mouth shut! Dear God, let me put myself out of the way! Dear God, let me be wholly present to this person, your child!

Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

The future cannot be determined. I can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.

The little things are most worthwhile-- quiet word, a look, a smile.

Vane diventano le parole ripetute troppe volte.

Spesso non ci accorgiamo di quello che abbiamo, non siamo grati alla vita.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.