Quotes About Awareness

Friendship that is characterized by thoughtful passion ensures that a friend does not lose her Self in the heightened awareness of and attachment to another woman.

There are split seconds in the morning between waking and sleep when you know nothing. Not just things missing like where or who you are, but nothing. The fact of being alive has no substance. No awareness of skin and bone, the trap inside the skull. For these split seconds you hover in the sky like Icarus. Then you remember

God was listening to us." "He's always listening to us!

May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, The foresight to know where you're going, And the insight to know when you're going too far. Irish proverb

Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. Irish proverb

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world.

If we are to move towards our collective bliss, it's time we shed our focus on the physical.

Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man.

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Of what use to humanity, I ask myself, is a man who cannot see beyond his own hurt?

Something happens to me when I garden. I am fully, reliably, blissfully present to who I am and where I am in that moment. I am an animal with a hundred different senses and all of them are switched on.

Since the big things find you no matter where you are, it's okay to unhook from your portable news source so you're not in the middle of what's happening every minute of the day. It doesn't mean you don't care; it means you care about yourself too.

I had asked Hunter once, when he was in a rare calm mood, 'Do you know when you're about to change? Are you aware of it?' Hunter said, 'Sandy, do you know what it's like? I'm just standing here, and I have a sense that something is about to happen. And then I start to turn my head, and it's here. The monster's here.

My personal mindblower was "Desolation Row," but the song that cut the deepest was "Like a Rolling Stone." The song was about discovering what was actually going on around you, realizing that life isn't all that you've been told it is.

To see some truths you must stand outside and look in.

All things were formed of energy, arrangements of bundled light that were subject to natural law. The awareness of this truth, defined to absolute perfection, granted the mage-trained their influence. To know a thing, to encompass its full measure in respect was to hold its secrets in mastery. Life-force was the basis of all power.

The rebuke came, keen-edged. 'Trusting the man is not the same thing as knowing what he's about.

How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.

A tree is a fantastic example of beauty, but who has time to look at a tree?

He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs.

The crow that mimics a cormorant is drowned.

You go through life thinking that there's a secret to life. And the secret to life is there is no secret to life.