Quotes About Awareness

Wie willst du das wissen?«, fragte ich sie. »Du siehst mich doch gar nicht.« »Du hast geschnaubt. Wenn du auf diese Art schnaubst, siehst du immer dämlich aus.«

Nineteenth-century nationalism established what we might call the modern ground-rule for having an identity. You have the strongest identity when you aren't aware you 'have' it; you just are it. That is, you are most yourself when you are least aware of it

the more that sin is seen, the more it is hated, and therefore it is less. Dust particles are in a room before the sun shines, but they only appear then.

What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn't know it's dead.

You are here. You are here. You're still right here.

I'm sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious.

Even when I look away I am still looking.

The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I'm alive

You see it as a room, a tabernacle, the dark hotel. You're in the hallway again, and you open the door, and if you're ready you'll see it, but maybe one part of your mind decides that the other parts aren't ready, and then you don't remember where you've been

What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn't know it's dead.

We have been very brave, we have wanted to know the worst, wanted the curtain to be lifted from our eyes.

Let's say you're driving down the road with your eyes closed but my eyes are also closed.

Let's admit, without apology, what we do to each other. We know who our enemies are. We know.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes.

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as which we close our eyes.

I have often lamented that we cannot shut our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes.

In the age of AIDS I had been making it a practice to imagine a skull and crossbones on the forehead of every possibly available comely gay man I found myself alone with, but Slonski's kept fading in, fading out.

You're a gay detective? I don't think I've ever met one before." "Of course you have," McWhirter put in emphatically. "You just didn't know they were gay. That's the whole point.

The fundamental work of the Somatic Coach is to guide the person to feel and be with this animating force that makes them alive. This is life moving toward life.

Are there any poets that write directly about this? Oneness is typing this, Oneness is reading this. People mention Hafiz and Rumi. Non-Duality Press publishes books of poems by Nicholas Czernin, 'Wasteland Words', and by John Astin, 'This Is Always Enough'.

We really are like fish discussing how to get more in touch with the sea.

In driving, one assumes the danger of destroying life, beginning with one's own.

We see only a part of the surface of things. The rest will be forever hidden from us, to be appreciated for its felt but unfathomed presence.