Quotes About Awareness

He needed to stop messing up his mind with the future and concentrate on what was at hand.

weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.

to follow God does not often mean traveling with certainty about where God will lead us. Rather, following God propels us to be present to the place where we are, for this is the very place where God shows up.

To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work hanging in fine museums or the praise of critics. To be an artist it is necessary to live with our eyes wide open, to breath in the colors of mountain and sky, to know the sound of leaves rustling, the smell of snow, the texture of bark. To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing, to cry freely, to collect experience and shape it into forms that others can share.

Self discovery is something you cannot buy

Omdat de e-toets van mijn schrijfmachine los zit - in plaats van resoluut in te grijpen en het ding vast te plakken probeer ik hem iedere keer met een splintertje van een lucifer vast te zetten, wat eigenlijk niet zo verwonderlijk is want het valt je pas op als je de machine gebruikt en dan kan je niet gaan plakken - moest ik denken aan een voortand van mij waar ook wat beweging in zit.

When you sat in the dark every day, it was hard to know how much time passed.

The problem with society is that most people are too comfortable in their own lives to even try to imagine the difficulty of someone

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

When you're sixteen or seventeen meaning can be anywhere. A drop of rain running down the window is a symbol, a song comes on the radio just when you longed for it, you have the same initials as the boy for whom you're sick, secret messages await you in poems. It's like living in a net of logic, of systems of words and significance.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Ethical politics requires more than rational demystification.

There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.

now he knows

You can tell a lot about someone's character from the way they treat waiters or shop assistants or bus drivers when they think no one is watching.

We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2 000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750 000 girls per year.

Have you noticed how we are presented with the same lessons, over and over and over, before a tipping point is reached? The lessons we need to learn circle round us, closing in, until finally we are ready to take them in. Take them in. Those are the words that matter, because until I had embodied the lessons I was supposed to learn, absorbed them into the warp and woof of my being, they didn't "take"; they remained a head trip and didn't lead to changes in my behavior.

Nothing can change until we acknowledge what is, as I have learned over time.

For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, there is spread the pattern.

I was seeing something I didn't understand and did not want to. No I wasn't. I was seeing something I had always understood and wanted to understand better.

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.