Quotes About Awareness

Maybe we all dream pieces of the future but just don't happen to know it.

The difference between paranoia and remaining alert is how you let your fear affect you.

Si tu vida cotidiana te parece pobre, no la acuses. Acúsate a ti mismo de no ser lo bastante poeta para percibir sus riquezas.

Ne-am n?scut provizoriu, undeva, apoi încetul cu încetul conÅŸtientiz?m în noi originea noastr?, ÅŸi aÅŸa renaÅŸtem mereu, de fiecare dat? mai definitiv.

My looking ripens things and they come towards me, to meet and be met.

Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.

Dieses ist das erste Vorgefühl des Ewigen: Zeit haben zur Liebe.

I don't want to talk to anyone, lest I squander your words' echo, which ripples like a shine over mine and lends their sound a richness.

Lauschende Wolke über dem Wald. Wie wir sie lieben lernten, seit wir wissen, wie wunderbald sie als weckender Regen prallt an die träumenden Ernten.

If your everyday life seems poor to you, do not accuse it; accuse yourself, tell yourself you are not poet enough to summon up its riches; since for the creator there is no poverty and no poor or unimportant place.

the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.

LOOKING UP FROM THE PAGE, I AM REMINDED OF THIS MORTAL COIL Mercurial ribbon licking the cut lip of the Blue Ridge— daybreak or end, I can't tell as long as I ignore the body's marching orders, as long as I am alive in air . . . What good is the brain without traveling shoes?

Though part of the puzzle is obviously capital budget allocations, most companies seem to have a much higher awareness of the rules by which capital and assets are allocated than they do about how skilled people should be spending their time.

constructively paranoid

The goal is to understand how this period can be extended for as long as possible while simultaneously being mindful that it will eventually erode.

If one does not make an ego out of gender, one would still know whether one is a man or a woman, gay, straight, bisexual, transgender—whatever else we may think of. But those identities need to fit very loosely and be worn very lightly. All sense of privilege or deprivation that has developed around one's gender identity, all rigidity regarding proper roles and behaviors for the various genders, must be cut through.

All this overt heterosexuality amused me. If only they knew.

If you can't raise consciousness at least raise hell

humans are much more like sheep than cats. They're easily led and they don't look where they're going until it's too late.

Many of you remember when Dutch Elm disease swept the East Coast. People in big cities saw the trees die but it didn't register, in any way at all, that this would compromise oxygen. Think of it, that many trees dying in that short a time span means there is less photosynthesis. Less oxygen is being produced. Therefore pollution in the big cities becomes more pronounced. These basics do not occur to people who work in buildings where the windows don't open.

All's well here. Hope your life is full of mice, moles, voles, butterflies, and the occasional inattentive bird. In Catitude, Sneaky Pie

I am hearing all the secret whisperings of the world!

Well, first of all, said the BFG, human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.

Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again. Do any of us children, she wondered, ever stop to ask ourselves where our teachers go when school is over for the day? Do we wonder if they live alone, or if there is a mother at home or a sister or a husband?