Quotes About Awareness

A writer's job is to make the ordinary come alive, to awaken ourselves to the specialness of simply being

It is good to pay attention to our dreams. For a period of a few weeks, write them down each morning. You don't have to do anything else. Just write them down. They have their own magic and will bleed into your waking life. While

Ninety percent of writing is about listening.

When you draw and pay attention to what is, it's a form of being present. This inspires the mind, makes it happy, and the heart wants to express more.

I think I intuitively suspected that perspective would put me outside the painting. I didn't want that. I wanted to get close to those tables and chairs, to jump in and feel myself dancing with them, even as I sat drawing them. I didn't want things to lie down; I wanted them to come forward, to beckon and call, to be noticed on the paper as I was noticing them in real life. I wanted the viewer to have a direct connection with the objects, to feel as happy as I was in their presence.

Naked Lunch, after the novel by William Burroughs—"a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.

Relax as you read and absorb it, as by osmosis, with your whole body and mind. And don't just read it. Write. Trust yourself. Learn your own needs. Use this book.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Anything you do fully is an alone journey.

Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.

14294Inspiration means breathing in. Breathing in God. You actually become larger than yourself and first thoughts are present.

If we see their (Navajo) lives and festivals as fantastic and our lives as ordinary, we come to writing with a sense of poverty. We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary.

Connection with self never felt so good!

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

Even if you know what's coming, you're never prepared for how it feels.

Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track.

I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.

Always there is something more to know

but the watchers knew their story

When Milton met Beethoven he said 'I've been told that you cannot hear.' And that was true, but Beethoven read Milton's lips and understood so he nodded his head 'yes.' Unfortunately Milton was blind so he didn't see the head nod and patiently awaited a response until he starved.

What keeps most of us from God is not the sin we know we have, but the righteousness we think we have.

In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance