Quotes About Awareness

You don't see things as they are. You see things as you are. -- Talmud

Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows.

We have to meet the world as if our ideas about it are real, but holding the knowledge that they are only ideas; to act as if we know, but tolerate the truth of not knowing.

It is not the story I know or the story you tell me that matters; it is what I already know, what I don't want to hear you say. Let it exist this way, concealed; let me always be embarrassed, knowing that you know that I know but pretend not to know.

Let those strikes of lightning come so we will quickly know what leaves us.

Everything seemed to happen so slowly. Nina watched the spiral of dust tremble its way from the ceiling, wavering in the light, a tiny cloud of white, nothing more. But it was, she knew, enough. She looked at Surinder

Good," said Anita. "Do you know what you're not thinking about when you're slicing zucchini?" "Everything else?" "Correct. You're not overthinking everything else.

Vis le moment présent. Ne prends pas de photos, n'essaye pas de saisir cet instant et de le figer pour l'éternité. Goûte à sa juste valeur le spectacle de ces lucioles.

Look for something real.' Syrinda had said. But how could she, when she didn't even know what that was?

Oh crap,' she said, as Apostil became more demanding. 'I did that thing where I was drunkenly utterly convinced I was sober.

you really have never heard of me, have you?" "I totally almost have," protested Carmen.

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

keyif duyan ki?i bulundu?u yerde tak?l?p kal?r, art?k ileriye do?ru hareket etmezdi.

There hadn't been one specific moment. It was like gradualy waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It's a slow process, but when you're awake, there's no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that it had been love.

You have to let yourself be fully present in every moment. Just be awake for it, do you know what I mean? Go all in and wring every last drop out of the experience.

I stared at him. Did he really say that? Did he remember? The way he looked back at me, one eyebrow raised, I knew he did. And this time, I was the one to look away. Because I remembered. I remembered everything.

My dad always used to say that with everything in life, there's a game-changing moment. The one moment everything else hinges upon, but you hardly ever know it at the time.

He looks at you a lot. When you're not paying attention. He looks at you, to see if you're having a good time.

All night, I talked to other people. I didn't look in his direction, but I always knew where he was. I was painfully aware of him. When he was nearby, my body hummed. When he was away, there was this dull ache. With him near, I felt everything.

There are moments in every girl's life that are bigger than we know at the time. When you look back, you say, that was one of those life-changing, fork-in-the-road moments and I didn't even see it coming. I had no idea.

Lara: Because sometimes you just feel sad and you can't explain it. Kitty: PMS? Lara: No.It's not PMS. Just because a girl is sad, it doesn't mean it has anything to do with PMS.

Here's the thing. My one piece of advice to you. You have to let yourself be fully present in every moment. Just be awake for it, do you know what I mean? Go all in and wring every last drop out of the experience.

When that piece makes sense, everything else starts to.

They seem to have noticed her for the first time