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Awareness Quotes
"Yes, well-he pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose delicately-'the burner phone we had accidentally fell out of the car, and someone accidentally backed over it. Because someone was in a rush after she accidentally alerted some skip tracers we were nearby when she accidentally used her abilities to move a light pole out of the road after she had accidentally backed into it.'Someone better shut their mouth before I accidentally slam my fist into their teeth. She punched his shoulder, and it was almost...playful.'Shut his mouth, fist into his teeth.'Really? A grammar lesson?"
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"It felt like waking up over and over without falling sleep in between."
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"Does that new man in your life call his ex 'a slut', 'a whore', 'a bitch', 'psycho' , 'crazy', 'a nutter' etc etc. Chances are, whatever he's calling his ex right now, he'll be calling you when things don't go his way. Be warned."
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"Laugh now, cry later."
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"It's a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal."
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"People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high country exists."
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"Criticism of others. Criticism of 'self'.Criticism is the lack of compassion, insecurity of 'self' there a self defense mechanism is to put others down to feel superior EVEN IF you disagree with their lifestyle. Let go of your 'Self'.And if you have acted wrongly according to your own self-standard. Let go of your 'self'.Recognize when others are criticizing and 'choose' not to conform to the unconscious acts of others. Be aware, let go."
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"Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate."
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"I realized it was like looking into the sun-you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else."
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"I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life."
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"Whatever she is now she's better than she was," said Bedloe. "Being dead is better than being dull, being dead is better than not being aware."
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"These random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them."
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"You might consider how to escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage."
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"Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else."
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"The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes."
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"If you closely scrutinize relationships everywhere that struggle, in most cases, it is due to lack of self-awareness of one or both parties..."
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"When you have any sort of intense emotional reaction, you have a choice: look for proof that you should feel it even deeper or look for the thought process that is triggering the emotion. One takes you on a downwards spiral, while the other upwards. One breeds toxic patterns, the other awareness. The choice is yours."
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"Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again," I say, cheerily. "It's sitting in plain view on your chair in the great hall. I do hope that was the best place for it."
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"Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don't hesitate. Fumigate."
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"There are things you can't reach. ButYou can reach out to them, and all day long.The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god.And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier.I look; morning to night I am never done with looking.Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing aroundAs though with your arms open."
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"Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark."
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"It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. Also, when I write letters, I spend the next two days thinking about what I figured out in my letters."
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"Everything, all those great things, had happened so far away--or so it seemed to [Mma Ramotswe] at the time. The world was made to sound as if it belonged to other people--to those who lived in distant countries that were so different from Botswana; that was before people had learned to assert that the world was theirs too, that what happened in Botswana was every bit as important, and valuable, as what happened anywhere else."
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"Don't try to understand consciousness. Just try to be deeply conscious and it will reveal its secret to you."
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"Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness."
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"Causes: As important a fact as any individual cause on earth is the vital incapacity of the human individual to distinguish between genuine cause and one which is foisted upon him by pressure, environment, propaganda, conditioning.If people had the sense they pretend to have, they would seek this fundamental distinction perceptible.Hardly anyone makes this effort. This is partly because it is an invisible but powerful part of their culture to teach that conditioned emotionality and 'causes' whose necessity, urgency or rightness is only conditioned into them, are necessarily, right."
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"It is an unnecessary burden to make negative judgmental assumptions about others. We are all on a journey."
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"If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage. I doubt that you would read a close friend's early efforts and, in his or her presence, roll your eyes and snicker. I doubt that you would pantomime sticking your finger down your throat. I think you might say something along the lines of, 'Good for you. We can work out some of the problems later, but for now, full steam ahead!"
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"Funny, though, I don't feel too bad."
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"God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone's heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth."
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"We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them, and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen."
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"Now Darkstripe, ' Graypaw hissed to Firepaw under his breath, 'is neither young, nor pretty."
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"Don't trivialize the fact that your life is diminishing."
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"I see nobody on the road,' said Alice'I only wish I had such eyes,' The King remarked in a fretful tone. 'To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!"
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"Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes."
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"While chasing the moon that was about to set, she missed the sunrise."
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"You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days."
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