Quotes about Awareness

My first step from the old white man was trees. Then air. Then birds. Then other people. But one day when I was sitting quiet and feeling like a motherless child, which I was, it come to me: that feeling of being part of everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree, my arm would bleed. And I laughed and I cried and I run all around the house. I knew just what it was. In fact, when it happen, you can't miss it.

Nobody feel better for killing nothing. They feel something is all.

Still, it is like Shug say, You have to git man off your eyeball, before you can see anything a'tall

He had no such dreams, certainly. And if he had them, he did not recall them, on rising. Nor could he fathom why this should be so. In fact, dreams, the world of dreams, did not exist for him, as it existed for her. And unlike her, he did not sit before the dwindling fire of their hearth wondering, pondering, nagging the question really, What does this mean?

think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

It's not for us to choose our times, Jacob. But we must be ready when they come.

What you keep before your eyes will affect you.

Too often we don't realize how great we have it until something is taken away.

When negative thoughts come, the key is to never verbalize them.

There's a lot that is good in your life — don't take it for granted. Don't get so focused on the struggles that you miss the GIFT of today.

If you listen carefully, you'll hear another voice—the voice of faith.

Sometimes the people closest to you can't see the greatness in you.