Quotes About Awareness

The vitality of literary character has less to do with dramatic action, novelistic coherence, and even plain plausibility—let alone likeability—than with a larger philosophical or metaphysical sense, our awareness that a character's actions are deeply important, that something profound is at stake, with the author brooding over the face of that character like God over the face of the waters.

Sometimes, it is almost frightening to realise how poorly most people know themselves; it seems to put one at an almost priestly advantage over people's souls.

if she had known just a few months before, during more innocent times, that she would feel that way for the rest of her life....which is to say conflicted, she would have treasured those unaware, nonjudgmental, preadolescent moments more thoroughly. (Oh, to be eleven again!) Because once you know, once you really know how the world works, you can't unknow it.

I think about when I used to dress that way, not in that dress, obviously, but in that flesh. I will never do it again. I have learned all kinds of lessons from dressing that way, great lessons, terrible lessons, boring lessons, all of them, the big one being no matter how much you own yourself and your body and your mind, there are men who will always try to seek power over your body, even if it is just with their eyes, although often it is with their words and sometimes with their hands.

Everyone always thinks of ghosts as being invisible or like air but they take up so much space in a room, you've no idea.

These people all woke up this morning and reminded themselves to be human beings. Not everyone knows how to do that. No vermin, my people. Real human beings.

I can tell you something remarkable about that time, although it has only just occurred to me now. I never thought about death, like I do now. I never worried about dying. I only ever thought about being alive.

I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world.

His collar pulled and his tie strained against the intrusion. He blinked. He was irresistibly aware of the oddness of moving things.

Gently this time, though still the touch shot through Jim's clothes, through his skin even. It was this way whenever their bodies met, if limping he brushed against him or laughing he squeezed his arms. The touch charged through like a sputtering tram-wire until it wasn't Doyler he felt but what Doyler touched, which was himself. This is my shoulder, this my leg. And he did not think he had felt himself before, other than in pain or in sin.

Once you get to the other side of the fence you realize that grass is just ichie.

100% of our feeling is arising from THOUGHT in the moment")

Our feelings, states and emotions can't possibly come from anywhere other than THOUGHT, because our experience is mind?made. We live in an inside?out world, and all our experiences (the ones we like and the ones we don't) only ever come from within, 100% of the time. Period.

You already are what you've been searching for until now. . . There's nothing to search for – you've already got it; you already are it. There's nowhere to get to – you're already here… You don't need improving, fixing or developing – who you already are is the all?encompassing energy behind life!

Imagine... You feel great about yourself, but when you look down, your body is the opposite sex from who you know yourself to be. Imagine what it would feel like to live with that descrepancy.

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If the Internet has given us anything, it's some idea of how much psychosis goes undiagnosed.

Resting in this moment, we have no age.

Anxiety is the subtle and pervasive destroyer of our happiness. It depends on thoughts of past and future. It cannot exist in the present.

Cuando miramos de verdad, todo lo que vemos se torna hermoso: las grietas en la acera, una planta muerta, las arrugadas manos de una anciana. Los navajos advierten a su pueblo: «Caminad por la belleza». Cuando nuestra mirada está atenta, todo es hermosura y todo el mundo camina por la belleza.

it is all too easy for us in this postindustrial era to take eating so for granted that we engage in it with huge unawareness, and also freight it (all puns intended) with complicated psychological and emotional issues that obscure and sometimes seriously distort a simple, basic, and miraculous aspect of our lives.

Come on; wake up to the fact that constructing your own reality is another way of defining insanity!

God's activity in our lives and in our world is self-evident if we choose to remember, recognize, and credit it. What has God already done? That's the key question.

I've made myself a donkey tonight... The only fortune with me, as a donkey is that, unlike other donkeys, I understand when I'm wrong.