Quotes About Awareness

When one comes to the essence of being, The shining wisdom of reality Illumines all like the cloudless sky.

The magic of drama is infinitely more powerful than the magic of trickery. It is as available to the conjurer as it is to the actor. The only difference is that actors take it for granted, whereas few conjurers are even aware that it exists.

It was only then that I realized that Jeremy never rode the bus, no matter how bad the weather. As

Each second that goes by, we're all one second closer to the rest of our lives and our deaths.

If you're not nervous, you're not paying attention.

I know people get tired of hearing it but black people have got to keep saying it, throwing our conditions up into these people's faces until something is done about the way they have treated us. We've just got to keep it in front of their eyes and their ears like the Jews have done. We've got to make them know and understand just how evil the things are that they did to us over all these years and are still doing to us today.

2. Theology is necessary because truth and experience are related. While some would deny or at least question this connection, in the long run the truth will affect our experience. A person who falls from the tenth story of a building may shout while passing each window on the way down, "I'm still doing fine," and may mean it sincerely, but eventually the facts of the matter will catch up with the person's experience.

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even when they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

Here's the thing: this planet's not a place that kids will inherit at some point, far off in the distant future. We live here right now, and we share this planet already."

La vita umana è una strana cosa: la meta non si trova alla fine, bensì a metà strada; corri, ma forse hai oltrepassato da tempo il segno d'arrivo senza sapere, senza accorgerti che l'hai fatto né quando, e forse non lo saprai mai. Perciò continui a correre.

We're always looking, but we never really see.

Travel penetrates your consciousness, but not in a rational way.

You put your camera around your neck in the morning along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." – Dorothea Lange ('Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life' by Milton Meltzer)

From the moment she'd met him, she'd felt his presence all around her.

But I was born today, and isn't it funny how no one gets to remember that moment and who was there? It's all what's told to you.

You knew because you wanted to live. I want to live, too, and if I want to live, I have to know things others don't. Now, I'm telling you something valuable. I'm telling you something so you can save your sons' lives.

You knew because you wanted to live. I want to live, too, and if I want to live, I have to know things others don't.

Anyway, you can be polite about it, but that's fucked up. I'm Japanese but I'm not stupid. I lived in America and Europe for a long time; it's crazy what the Japanese have done to the Koreans and the Chinese who were born here. It's fucking bonkers; you people should have a revolution. You don't protest enough. You and your dad were born here, right?

Every day you are closer to your death. You are half-dead already. Where does your identity come from?

There was nothing else he could think of, and he wanted to spare her the cruelty of what he had learned, because she would not believe that she was no different than her parents, that seeing him as only Korean—good or bad—was the same as seeing him only as a bad Korean. She could not see his humanity, and Noa realized that this was what he wanted most of all: to be seen as human

If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked.

It's just- well, I don't want you to get hurt. Take it slow, that's my advice. Look, you're new to this, and it takes some experience dealing with..." Her sentence trailed off. "I mean, what do you really know about him?" "Well, he's not married.

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.

I don't think it should be socially acceptable for people to say they are "bad with names." No one is bad with names. That is not a real thing. Not knowing people's names isn't a neurological condition; it's a choice. You choose not to make learning people's names a priority. It's like saying, "Hey, a disclaimer about me: I'm rude.