Quotes about Awareness

I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.

I'd forgotten how trees full of bird sounds made you sense the world differently: that life didn't just stop at eye level.

When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.

You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist of history rather than a spectator.

And then while we all still waited I understood that the terror of my recurring dream was not about losing just vision, but the whole of myself, whatever that was. What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Remember, "If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness.