Quotes About Awareness

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Antes eramos increíblemente tontos. Dejábamos que todo pasara y sólo hallábamos fuerzas para charlar, para escuchar cómo charlaban los otros.

Los sentimientos se deslizan, a veces se refugian en guaridas de amor, pero cuando emergen al aire preso o libre, dan el color del mundo, no del universo inalcanzable sino del mundo chico, el contorno privado en que nos revolvemos. Gracias a ellos, a los sentimientos, tomamos conciencia de que no somos otros, sino nosotros mismos. Los sentimientos nos otorgan nombre, y con ese nombre somos lo que somos.

No es muy inteligente ni sensible y gozará despreocupadamente de la vida; vivirá sin enterarse de su insignificancia, y ésta es una variante, acaso la única posible, de la felicidad.

Todavía tengo casi todos mis dientes, casi todos mis cabellos y poquísimas canas; puedo hacer y deshacer el amor, trepar una escalera de dos en dos y correr cuarenta metros detrás del ómnibus, o sea que no debería sentirme viejo, pero el grave problema es que antes no me fijaba en estos detalles.

De pronto tuve conciencia de que ese momento, de que esa rebanada de cotidianidad, era el grado máximo de bienestar, era la Dicha. Nunca había sido tan plenamente feliz como en ese momento, pero tenía la hiriente sensación de que nunca más volvería a serlo, por lo menos en ese grado, con esa intensidad

we are much better at judging other peoplethan at analyzing ourselves.

If one has never been in love before, then it is difficult to recognize the beast when it comes along.

Toby thought. It was a painful process, since he was not in the habit of thinking very much about anything.

Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.

A lot of children know absolutely nothing about guns other than what they see on T.V., and those are the wrong things.

William Blake says the body is 'that portion of soul discerned by the five senses

I use the word mystery,rather than magic. I love magic. something magic was always going to happen. When it did, it never did anything but land me in trouble. MYSTERY is the depth of the sacred. Page 33 coming home to my self

The man who feels fear without cause is a fool; but the man is twice a fool who does not feel fear when there is cause.

He wasn't looking at her, was at such an oblique angle to her that his face was little more than a sliver, but she knew him at once. "It was like reading," she would try to explain later, and she wasn't talking about phonics. She didn't break him into syllables—shoulders, hair, shirt collar, hand, nose, cheekbone—and put him back together again; she didn't sound him out. He was a language she knew, and it was whole-word recognition: Will.

For those few stolen minutes, she found she could let go, second by second, of everything that haunted her until her mind was empty as a scoured bowl and all she knew was flavor on her tongue, air against her face, the small, dazzling details of her scrap of world.

Not tailgating acknowledges the mystery and humanity of strangers. It's one of those small habits that speaks volumes.

It just seems like we --human beings -- know so much, but it's nothing compared to what we don't know.

She found that if she paid extremely careful attention to what was around her, really concentrating, and noticing every detail, the terror would fall back.

He pictured the black dot on the map again. Not very long ago, Dev had believed in the dot's randomness, but now the dot was houses, friends, trees, poems, fiery leaves snagged in his rake, his bike wheels on asphalt. He imagined the dot grown larger and printed with the words on his Milky Way poster: YOU ARE HERE.

You'll know who you are when you start losing things,' Doris said.

She knew her death was near because time had begun to fold like a fan so that the past and the present rubbed together in ways that made her feel supple and porous, as if time were moving through her body and not the other way around.

Walker studied the small, twitching motions of his

Always live your life with your biography in mind.