Quotes About Awareness

There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.

I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.

that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.

Lloraba porque no tenía zapatos hasta que conocí a un hombre que no tenía pies»?

A person (or ego) with a connection to the Self has a sense that what she is doing with her life is meaningful. This can only be known subjectively, it is soul knowledge.

but until a feminist consciousness emerges, it is easy to be blind to misogyny and its far-reaching implications

You must be present to win." And that's what this book is about—being present in our lives to gain the happiness we deserve, for ourselves and equally for others.

Don't follow the passage of air all the way in and out of the body, but rather keep your attention focused on the site where you feel your breath most clearly.)

If thoughts arise, observe them, but do not get hooked into stories about them; then let them "float away," the way bubbles float up and away when a diver exhales under water.

When your mind is stable, move into shikantaza by just sitting. Allow whatever comes up to come up, whether it is a sound or a thought or a physical sensation. Observe it until it drops away. Just let whatever is present be present. Continue this way until the end of your sitting period.

The problem with women was that they were always planning some future that involved you and that you were not aware of, as if you'd signed up for a credit card without knowing it.

Her mother chose to martyr herself to some domestic goddess routine that everybody else in the world had wised up to long ago.

we are all aware of the consequences of climate change.

decisions made by economic actors (households, firms, the state) are constrained by limited information.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

Sometimes it is easier to hear the cries of poor people who are far away than it is to hear the cries of our brothers and sisters in our own community. There is nothing very splendid in responding to the cry of the person who is with us day after day and who gets on our nerves. Perhaps too we can only respond to the cries of others when we have recognized and accepted the cry of our own pain.

Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose all sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.

Yang terpenting bukanlah kenikmatan-kenikmatan berskala besar, melainkan bagaimana kita mampu mengeksploitasi yang kecil-kecil secara maksimal.

Dear Daddy, Do you observe the postmark?

Most people don't live; they just race.

I did not then know that the world is often plainer than people imagine and that the truth, no matter how banal, is always alive and glowing.

À ce moment-là, je crois, j'ai pris conscience qu'aucune existence, si heureuse ou brillante fût-elle, ne me suffirait jamais. Il vient toujours un moment où le rêveur, qui d'ordinaire se croit heureux parce que ses songes l'emportent sans cesse ailleurs, prend conscience de son malheur.

He considered each and every second as if he'd never encountered one before, as if the time it kept was a permanent surprise.