Quotes About Awareness

See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and the next day you're a dirt sandwich.

that if you don't read nobody does

must've stepped in dog poop when I walked in the grass. And I knew EXACTLY where it happened, too. SQUISH I took my shoe off and went to the front of the room to tell Mrs. Pope about my situation. But I think Mrs. Pope thought I was trying to skip out on the pop quiz, because she gave me

The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?

But maybe she should turn the other way while I get dressed. Wouldn't want to ruin her for other men. - Dean

Anything can become music if listened to long enough

Because what you need to transform your life is not more information.

Be happy, and the reason will appear.

Wanting things to be different from what they are is suffering. Attraction and aversion, greed and hatred, lust and ill will: These are the attachments that cause suffering. "I like that; I want more"—"I dislike this; make it stop": Letting go of these attachments is the end of suffering. Release from this unsatisfactory predicament is the goal of life, whether we are aware of it or not.

If you are not affected, if you are not hurt by what we do, then you will not do anything to stop it. The war will simply continue. As long as it is just the soldiers

The earth hums? - Of course it does. What a stupid question! Don't you hear it?

Pregnant women shouldn't be lifting dead bodies.

Being able to separate fantasy from reality was a real bummer. I

You should be more careful." "I'm considering that. I've heard good things about that lifestyle.

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

If you were me, which I am,

Nobody makes good choices when they aren't aware they're making a choice.

Would that not be the final humbling of the human condition? That the trees and birds, the fox and the rabbit, the wolf and the deer... reach a point at which they do not even notice us, as we are transformed.

Some things you can be so close to that you never grasp their true nature.

If someone seems to have changed from one session to another, make sure you haven't changed instead." A warning from his mother, once upon a time, delivered as if she'd upended a box of spy-advice fortune cookies and chosen one at random.

But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?

There's nothing to this world,' he said, 'but what our senses tell us about it, and all I can do is the best I can on that information.

Was he the woman with no clue where the ant was or the ant, unaware it was on the woman?

Give back to that which gave to you, came the thought, not knowing what I might be feeding, or what it meant for the collection of cells and thoughts that comprised me.