Quotes About Awareness

Wir verkümmern, lieber Herr Doktor, weil wir nur noch meinen und nicht mehr denken.

We need to become painfully aware of how we're obscuring God from those who need to connect with Him the most: the lost.

These Days I mainly just talk to Plants and Dogs

It's intolerable that when someone is born into the world, he can't automatically come to consciousness.

Meine Wissenschaft gibt mir Wachträume, die andere nicht einmal im Schlafen haben." Peter Handke: Langsame Heimkehr. Erzählung. Frankfurt am Main 1994, S. 63.

Life is a poem, look carefully and you will find a verse. Peter Harrison December 2016

Being with Steffens is to me like flashes of clear light; it is as if I see him, and myself, and the world, with new eyes." Steffens

Everyone, it seemed to me, ought to know about Lincoln Steffens.

She loves me-she just doesn't know it yet.

It's supposed to go bing-bing or bong-bong or ding-ding when tires go over it. The one at Dave's stopped working several years ago, and he won't have it fixed because he feels as I do - that none of us need to be reminded we exist.

The difference maybe between the living and the dead: the living often want to be numb, the dead never do ...

Most of us are never seen, not clearly, and when we are we likely jump and run.

Because that's what it turned into: in front of a fine painting a viewer stopped looking and started watching, watching is more specific, watching is a hunt for something, a search, the way we search for a loved one's boat on the horizon, or an elk in the trees. Before a good painting they started watching for clues to their own life.

Well, I think that's sort of like Eve biting the apple. You were talking about Genesis. I think it's like that, the crow is like the serpent. He is giving the horse the awareness of choice. And with a full knowledge of choice comes a foreknowledge of death.

One of the things that happens to people as they get older, and especially to women on the other side of middle age, is that people forget to notice.

If one concentrated on one thing and then another—the good things in each moment—the fear wrapped deep in the gut seemed to unswell, like an iced bruise. Still there, but quieter.

I think he tried to live every day just so he wouldn't die.

But I should have known.

Fished here, too, the river dropping so fast, the rapids so loud, reverberating off the cliff—you had to be careful as you walked down the railroad tracks to look back often. More than one fisherman never heard or saw the train coming.

The difference maybe between the living and the dead: the living often want to be numb the dead never do, if they never want anything.

In my position with the first reports coming in I should have known. She sat up straight on her haunches and she cried silently.

In truth, Celine never went too long without eating. HALT. It was her AA training. Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired - don't let yourself become any of those, if you can help it.

other in a key inaudible, usually, to the human ear. But probably you could hear it. Sometimes. If you quieted the pulse of your own blood. A rhythmic keening at the edge of sound. Wynn thought that if wolves sang, and coyotes, and elk and birds, and wind, and we, too, it was probably

Funny how you can live your whole life waiting and not knowing it. Waiting for your real life to begin. Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize that when it's too late.