Quotes About Awareness

If you can bring some light of intelligence into your sexuality, that light will transform it.

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. We walk through it, yell into it, rake leaves, wash the dog, and drive cars in it. We breathe it deep within us. With every breath, we inhale millions of molecules of sky, heat them briefly, and then exhale them back into the world.

When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

we are most psychic at approximately 4:00 A.M.

You don't know nothing, that's what I figured out. You don't know nothing, but you act like god anyway.

Poets speak truth when no one else can or will. That's why the hunger for poetry grows when the world grows dark. When repression grows, when people speak in whispers or not at all, they turn to poetry to find out what's going on.

Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.

She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

The man who heard the land was not farming, was not hunting, was not gathering wood for the log pile beside the house, but was an ordinary man driving on a highway, and the car stopped, and he heard the land. He thought it might have been the wind he heard, but knew it was the land. He couldn't understand the words, but he knew the land was speaking.

The trees were a seed inside a sail. In the piano music he heard the land; dust on a road, the sun sinking behind earth, the moon in the dark sky, a field of water after rain. It was as if the land gave him an awareness. It was an augmentation or development of some part of himself.

so if you feel a little breeze or smell a donut smell sometimes, why, you know it's just my thoughts passing through.

You didn't know what good things were going to happen to you until you were right in the middle of them, so it was best to always be ready.

You can see. Seeing is believing. Seeing is the gift that keeps giving. It's much more engaging than being seen.

As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.

One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.

Our own difficulties shouldn't blind us to the difficulties of others.

He has to keep his emotions grazing in the back pasture." Senator Elliott

A fogged brain puts everyone in danger.