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Papa taps on the skylight and I look up. He waves at me and smiles. I smile back. For now, I don't need to know what lies ahead. For now it's enough just to be here, safe aboard the Morning Star with my family and friends. For now, it's enough to be home.
— Heather Vogel Frederick, The Education of Patience Goodspeed
All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight.
— Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Then a calm fell upon him. The gushing began from all sorts of places, all over his body. He heard pleasurable little giggles on the outer edges of his mind, in the dark creases behind his thoughts. He felt good, better than he’d felt in years. As if he were inside a huge embrace. And he felt as if he had finally reached the right place, his home, his motherland.
— David Grossman, Her Body Knows
Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a glimpse of a wedding, or the thought of a happy home.
— Oscar Hammerstein II
I don't feel alone with you. I feel like I have a family and a home again. You're my home. All of the dark shadows seem to disappear when we're together.
— R.K. Lilley, Mile High
Build a House for men and birds.Sit with them and play music.For a day, for just one day,talk about that which disturbs no oneand bring some peace,my friend,into your beautiful eyes.
— The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz
Home isn’t a place.Home is anywhere, just as long as the people you love are there.
— Kristen Ashley, Rock Chick Renegade
Home was more about people than a place.
— Caragh M. O'Brien, Ruled
I am not here to serve myself. I am not here to be lauded, petted, admired or ‘affirmed.’ I am here to build men, cultures and kingdoms. When I find myself in the midst of difficulties and pain, will I persevere, or will I become a coward and pity myself? We do not have time for self-pity! We have much to do, and the hour is late! We need a broader vision of home than just ourselves as wives and mothers, sisters and daughters. We need to understand that we are to work to build Christ’s kingdom—for eternity!
— Jennie Chancey
At that moment, Oliver realized that home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.
— Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines
Your home is where your family is... Where someone waits for you and thinks about you.
— Tony DiTerlizzi, A Hero For WondLa
Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere.
— Lauren DeStefano, Sever
I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I'd lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe.It was haunted.The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn't say which I was rooting for.
— D.J. MacHale, The Light
HereYou always belonged here.You were theirs, certain as a rock.I’m the one who worriesif I fit in with the furniture and the landscape.	But I “follow too muchthe devices and desires of my own heart.”Already the curves in the roadare familiar to me, and the mountainin all kinds of light, treating all people the same.and when I come over the hill, I see the house, with its generous and firm proportions, smokerising gaily from the chimney.I feel my life start up again, like a cutting when it growsthe first pale and tentativeroot hair in a glass of water.
— Jane Kenyon, Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years we spent living there. Yet we still think of Jerusalem as our home. Not home in the sense of the place that you conduct your daily life or constantly return to. In fact, Jerusalem is our home almost against our wills. It is our home because it defines us, whether we like it or not.
— Yotam Ottolenghi, Jerusalem: A Cookbook
The nice thing about being away from home is the feeling of excitement when returning to it!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep.
— Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To...
For home had a way of shifting, of changing shape and temperature. Home was homeless. It could exist anywhere, because its only substance was familiarity. If it was broken by long journeys or tornadoes it emerged again, reinvented itself with new decor, new idiosyncrasies of morning, noon and dusk, and old routines.
— Diana Evans, 26a
Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All. God was our original habitat and our hearts cannot but feel at home when they enter again that ancient and beautiful abode.
— A.W. Tozer
The realization that we were so near to victory made life become very dear to me. I felt near home!
— William Arthur Sirmon, That's War
Relax in your own home, Kylie. It's one of the few places on earth you're free to be as you really are.
— Dorien Kelly, The Last Bride in Ballymuir
She did not know where her home was anymore, and this idea didn’t frighten her like it should. - Bohemian Grove
— T.M.  Williams, Bohemian Grove
He's pressing me to his chest. I melt. Oh, this is where I want to beI rest my head against him, and he kisses my hair repeatedly. This is home. He smells of linen, fabric softener, body wash, and my favourite smell - Christian. For a moment, I allow myself the illusion that all will be well, and it soothes my ravaged soul
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker
He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.
— Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a tiny spurt of flame that blazed out briefly in an illimitable and terrifying darkness, and that all man’s grandeur, tragic dignity, his heroic glory, came from the brevity and smallness of this flame. He knew his life was little and would be extinguished, and that only darkness was immense and everlasting. And he knew that he would die with defiance on his lips, and that the shout of his denial would ring with the last pulsing of his heart into the maw of all-engulfing night.
— Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is.Come let us fart in the home.There is no art in a fart.Still a fart may not be artless.Let us fart and artless fart in the home.
— Ernest Hemingway, 88 Poems
When you break something, is your first impulse to throw it away? Or do you repair it but feel a sadness because it is no longer "perfect"? Whatever the case, you might want to consider the way the Japanese treated the items used in their tea ceremony. Even though they were made from the simplest materials... these teacups and bowls were revered for their plain lines and spiritual qualities. There were treated with the utmost care, integrity and respect.For this reason, a cup from the tea ceremony was almost never broken. When an accident did occur and a cup was broken, there were certain instances in which the cup was repaired with gold. Rather than trying to restore it in a what they would cover the gace that it ahad been broken, the cracks were celebrated in a bold and spirited way. The thin paths of shining gold completely encircled the ceramic cup, announcing to the world that the cup was broken and repaired and vulnerable to change.And in this way, its value was even further enhanced.
— Gary Thorp, Sweeping Changes:  Discovering the Joy of Zen in Everyday Tasks
All I've ever wanted was a place to belong, and someone to belong to.
— Donna Alward, Hired by the Cowboy
Home is where you can go and rest and be nothing
— Marty Rubin
I'd come to see that home wasn't just about the place where you lived or the memories within the walls. It was the love you saw reflected in the eyes of the people around you, and the strength of your own feelings that made a place home.
— R.E. Butler, A Flash of Fang
This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.
— Rick Bragg
We can't just run away. It's our land. Our people. We have a duty.
— Selma Dabbagh, Out of It
When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come topeace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and findsuch a blessed sense of rest!
— Charles Dickens
You know that point in your life when you realize that the house you grew up in isn’t really your home anymore… All of the sudden, even though you have some place to put your shit, that idea of home is gone… Or maybe it's like this rite of passage… You will never have that feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start. It’s like a cycle or something. Maybe that’s all family really is: a group of people that miss the same imaginary place.
— Zach Braff
At Bramasole, the first secret spot that draws me outside is a stump and board bench on a high terrace overlooking the lake and valley. Before I sit down, I must bang the board against a tree to knock off all the ants. Then I'm happy. With a stunted oak tree for shelter and a never-ending view, I am hidden. No one knows where I am. The nine-year-old's thrill of the hideout under the hydrangea comes back: My mother is calling me and I am not answering.
— Frances Mayes, Bringing Tuscany Home: Sensuous Style From the Heart of Italy
It's like coming home," said Webster and he wasn't talking to the dog. "It's like you've been away for a long, long time and then you come home again. And it's so long you don't recognize the place. Don't know the furniture, don't recognize the floor plan. But you know by the feel of it that it's an old familiar place and you are glad you came.""I like it here," said. Ebenezer and he meant Webster's lap, but the man misunderstood."Of course, you do," he said. "It's your home as well as mine. More your home, in fact, for you stayed here and took care of it while I forgot about it.
— Clifford D. Simak, City
Wife, to him, was someone who stood for stability, forcoming home, for dealing with all the shit he wasn’t able to deal with. For providing a real life and not this insanity.
— Aleksandr Voinov, Special Forces
Go spend time with the aspen trees. They'll tell you how it works. They'll tell you to look to your roots for energy. They'll tell you there's warmth below the surface.
— Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again
That was our first home. Before I felt like an island in an ocean, before Calcutta, before everything that followed. You know it wasn’t a home at first but just a shell. Nothing ostentatious but just a rented two-room affair, an unneeded corridor that ran alongside them, second hand cane furniture, cheap crockery, two leaking faucets, a dysfunctional doorbell, and a flight of stairs that led to, but ended just before the roof (one of the many idiosyncrasies of the house), secured by a sixteen garrison lock, and a balcony into which a mango tree’s branch had strayed. The house was in a building at least a hundred years old and looked out on a street and a tenement block across it. The colony, if you were to call it a colony, had no name. The house itself was seedy, decrepit, as though a safe-keeper of secrets and scandals. It had many entries and exits and it was possible to get lost in it. And in a particularly inspired stroke of whimsy architectural genius, it was almost invisible from the main road like H.G. Wells’ ‘Magic Shop’. As a result, we had great difficulty when we had to explain our address to people back home. It went somewhat like this, ‘... take the second one from the main road….and then right after turning left from Dhakeshwari, you will see a bird shop (unspecific like that, for it had no name either)… walk straight in and take the stairs at the end to go to the first floor, that’s where we dwell… but don’t press the bell, knock… and don't walk too close to the cages unless you want bird-hickeys…’’('Left from Dhakeshwari')
— Kunal  Sen
If my home is indeed a sanctuary, I want to treat everything I bring into it as sacred.
— Robyn Griggs Lawrence, The Wabi-Sabi House: The Japanese Art of Imperfect Beauty
Above me soft footsteps, the sound through the ceiling of a teenager haunted by a door to the night. My cousin Maybonne lights up a Salem, blows ghosts to the darkness, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
— Lynda Barry, The Greatest of Marlys
There would remain no sign of you ever having played in this house. Your childhood is going to be swept under a camel-skin rug and elevators are going to be built over the lake we once swam in. This address, as we know it, would be lost forever and we’ll wake up in a box-sized room: cramped, trampled and sensationally unhappy.'('Left from Dhakeshwari')
— Kunal  Sen
Home is wherever I'm with you. Home is where I'm alone with you.
— Alex Ebert
You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been.
— Richard Proenneke, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leave.' CHRISTINA'I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.' TRIS
— Veronica Roth, Insurgent
I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself otherwise, she was telling the truth. "It's just that I don't belong here."He gave her a meloncholy smile. "If it's any consolation, when I was growing up, I didn't feel like I belonged here, either. I dreamed about going to New York. But it's strange, because when I finally escaped this place, I ended up missing it more than I thought I would. There's something about the ocean that just calls to me.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
Darling," he said distractedly,"about the moon...""Yes?""I don't think it matters whether you want it or not.""What are you talking about?" "The moon. I think it's yours."Victoria yawned, not bothering to open her eyes. "Fine. i'm glad to have it.""But--" Robert shook his head. He was growing fanciful. the moon didn't belong to his wife. It didn't follow her, protect her. It certainly didn't wink at anybody.But he stared out the window the rest of the way home, just in case
— Julia Quinn, Everything and the Moon
[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prince of Mist
Places are supposed to look smaller when you go back to them, but my road just looked schizoid. A couple of the houses had had nifty little makeovers involving double glazing and amusing faux-antique pastel paint; most of them hadn't. Number 16 looked like it was on its last legs: the roof was in tatters, there was a pile of bricks and a dead wheelbarrow by the front steps, and at some point in the last twenty years someone had set the door on fire. In Number 8, a window on the first floor was lit up, gold and cozy and dangerous as hell.
— Tana French, Faithful Place
When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Home is where we tie one end of the thread of life.
— Martin Buxbaum
Upon walking into Eva's kitchen, something profound happened to Delphine. She experienced a fabulous expansion of being. Light-headed, she felt a swooping sensation and then a quiet, as though she'd settled like a bird.
— Louise Erdrich, The Master Butchers Singing Club
A house without security cannot be a home!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I had a dream, which seemed so real,I was King of the world, so full of appeal,Upon waking I found I wasn't alone,In a kingdom called Home, sitting on a throne.
— Omar Kiam
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
— Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
— Maya Angelou
Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.
— Emilie Autumn
Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.
— Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?
— Osho, The Buddha Said...: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Difficulties
The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death.It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:"This is water.""This is water."It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.
— David Foster Wallace
There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you.
— Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE
— Deepak Chopra
Each time a man looks into your eyes, he is only searching to find himself; for he knows already, that he is part of you
— Jeremy Aldana
You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother?
— Shannon L. Alder
Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.
— Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan
It's easier to take than to give. It's nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime.
— Joan Marques
Awakened at midnightby the sound of the water jarcracking from the ice
— Bashō Matsuo
Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one.
— Daniel M. Gilbert
Though you recite much scripture, If you are unaware and do not act accordingYou are like a cowherd counting others' cattle, Not a sharer in the wanderer's life.
— Anonymous, The Dhammapada
Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.
— Eric Berne, Games People Play
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
— Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom
The world is right because I feel good.p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
— Anthony de Mello
The aware do not die
—  The unaware are as though dead already.
Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that, for a moment, our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there around us always.
— Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is in, complex it out - forever.
— Joan Marques
Awareness makes us emotionally brilliant.
— Lorii Myers, Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success
One never sleepwalks through grizzlyland, dreaming of other places to be.
— William Stolzenburg, Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'.
— Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else.
— Gay Hendricks, The First Rule of Ten
Instinct's aware of reflex when mind ain't yet.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
While performing the great majority of the actions in their life, people are totally unaware. We tend to go through our daily activities mechanically. We talk without real purpose. We do things without even knowing that we do them. We are not really present to what we are doing. Even if we practise being aware, entire portions of our days can elapse before we retrieve our thread of awareness. In short, we are not living our life, we are sleeping it.
— Samuel Sagan, Regression : Past Life Therapy for Here and Now Freedom
It's all in the reflexes.
— "Jack Burton" (Kurt Russell), movie Big Trouble in Little China
We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.
— Sebastian Faulks, Engleby
All desires originate to seek betterment unconsciously. In awareness, the same desires dissolve into realization.
— Gian Kumar
Each one's no longer consciousOf the high wall, or the rest:Since the one enduring fortress,Is the soldier's iron breast.If you’d live unconquered,Quickly arm, and fight the real foe:Every wife an Amazon bred,And every child a hero.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Shepherds, did they but know it, walk through greater halls than kings.
— Charles Boardman Hawes
As soon as you are filled with awareness, the first thing that will happen is you will begin to see misery, the hell around you. Because you are the one who has created it. However, if you remain courageous and pass through the misery consciously, you will have cut the crop. You won’t have to go through the same miseries again. Once you have gone through this chain of miseries – the chain of karmas, the chain tied around your soul.... If you could pass through it without losing your consciousness, courageously, unworried; if you could determine, ”whatever misery I have created, I’ll go through it, I’ll go to the end of it. I want to arrive at that initial moment when I was innocent and the journey of suffering had not started yet, when my soul was absolutely pure and I had not gathered any misery – I am determined to penetrate up to that point regardless of any consequences, pain, or sorrow.
— Osho, Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
To be able to possess a machine in such a way is the ultimate show of determination and awareness. It makes one realize that the physicality of our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak
—  a true champion can accomplish things that a normal person would think impossible.
Start with very small experiments. When anger arises, stop! What is the hurry? When you feel hatred, wait! There should be some interval. Reply only when you are fully conscious – not until that. You will find that all that is sinful in life has fallen away from you; all that is wrong is banished forever. You will suddenly discover, there is no need to respond to anger. Perhaps you might feel like thanking the man who insults you. Because he has obliged you. He gave you an opportunity to awaken.Kabir has said stay near the one who is critical of you. Look after him and serve him who is abusing you because it is he who gives you the opportunity to awaken.All the occasions that drown you in unconsciousness can be turned into stepping stones to awareness if you wish so. Life is like a huge boulder lying in the middle of the road. Those who are foolish, see the stone as a barrier and turn back. For them the road is closed. Those who are clever, climb the stone and use it as a step. And the moment they make it a stepping stone greater heights are available to them.A seeker should keep in mind only one factor, and that is: to utilize each moment to awaken awareness. Then be it hunger or anger or lust or greed, every state can be utilized towards awareness.
— Osho, Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
You listen to anybody who suppresses you. And your personality fractures into thousands of pieces. Until you begin to listen to the inner voice, you cannot be an integrated whole.I call him a sannyasin who has begun to heed the inner voice and is ready to stake everything on it. But you cannot hear the inner voice as long as you are unconscious. Until then whatever you might take to be the inner voice will not be the inner voice; it will be a voice from outsideThe voice that satisfies you is the voice of your desires, but you call it your inner voice.Only the awakened person has an inner voice. Once this voice comes within range of your hearing, all that is sinful, all that is impure and dirty, all the chaos and confusion within you, will cease at once. You will then realize what a collection of personalities you have been.
— Osho, Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
So, Mary is on fire with both love and awareness, for these two together increase each other into sacred passion. She defies all custom, seizes the moment, rushes in, and, full of reverence, washes His feet with her tears and anoints His head with precious spikenard oil.
— Steve Sanchez, Rethinking Redemption
So start with the waking state. When you are hungry eat, but always remember that it is the body that is hungry, not you. If you hurt your leg, wash and clean the wound, apply medication, but always remember that it is the body that is hurt, not you. This much remembrance – and you will find that ninety-nine percent of the pain has vanished. This slight knowledge, this little awareness removes so much of your suffering. One percent is bound to remain because the knowledge is not total. When knowledge becomes total all of the suffering disappears.Buddha said that an awakened person is beyond suffering. You can cut off the limbs of such a person, you can throw him in the fire, you can kill him, but you cannot make him suffer, because he stands apart from all that is happening around him.
— Osho, Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
Whenever you’ll open your eyes, you will find nothing but ugliness and misery all around you. Everything looks fine when you are in an unconscious state. This is the reason why you find it difficult to conceive: CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE BEING. You say, ”Impossible!” That’s why one needs to go through pain. That is called tapascharya, spiritual practice. Whenever one begins to become aware, first he will have to go through suffering. For lives you have created misery around you, who else would pass through it if not you? That is what we have called the karma.
— Osho, Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
People are not dying of lack of money but of lack of esteem and awareness. ("Kein Schwein ruft mich an")
— Erik Pevernagie
Acts don't mean anything. Acts do not matter--you,your awareness, your being conscious,mindful, is what matters. What you do is not the concern.
— Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance
Unconcious makes you interested in other--things, people, but it is always the others. Unconciousness keeps you you completely in the darknesss; your eyes go on being focused on others. It creates a kind of exteriority, it makes you extroverts. Conciousness creates interiority. It makes you introverts; it takes you inward, deeper and deeper.
— Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance
And whenever you look at somebody as an enemy,you never look deep,you never look into the eye, you avoid. Don't be a fighter, be a lover.
— Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance
We always live in the tommorow,which never comes and which cannot come; it is impossible. That which comes always is today, and we go on sacrificing today for tommorow,which is nowhere. The mind goes on thinking of the past,which you have destroyed,which you have sacrificed for something that has not come. And then it goes on postponing for further tommorows.
— Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance
Transformation happens only when you put your total energy into it.
— Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance
Conscious living allows us to become the composers and conductors of our lives.
— Serge Mazerand
Awareness creates another world - an already existing world where you were not aware of its existence! It is an operation of ‘mature cataract’ surgery!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I never use the word renunciation at all. I say: "Rejoice in life,in love,in meditation,in the beauties of the world, in the ecstasy of existence--rejoice in everything!" Transform the mundane into the sacred. Transform this shore ino the other shore, transform the earth into paradise.And then indirectly a certain renunciation starts happening. But that happens,you don't do it. It is not a doing, it is a happening.
— Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance
We are vastly more powerful than we think we are. With a little support from flowers, we can recognize how deeply we affect others with our own energy and presence. We can cultivate a sharper awareness of our impact in the world.
— Katie Hess, Flowerevolution: Blooming into Your Full Potential with the Magic of Flowers
Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but what someone along the way sacrificed so that I might have the opportunity to pay for it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Beware of those who promise a quick and easy way, for much ease brings many difficulties.
— Jonathan Star, Tao Te Ching
Emily: Oh, Mama, look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone by. I'm dead. You're a grandmother, Mama! Wally's dead, too. His appendix burst on a camping trip to North Conway. We felt just terrible about it - don't you remember? But, just for a moment now we're all together. Mama, just for a moment we're happy. Let's really look at one another!...I can't. I can't go on.It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. So all that was going on and we never noticed. Take me back -- up the hill -- to my grave. But first: Wait! One more look. Good-bye , Good-bye world. Good-bye, Grover's Corners....Mama and Papa. Good-bye to clocks ticking....and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new ironed dresses and hot baths....and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth,you are too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every,every minute?Stage Manager: No. (pause) The saints and poets, maybe they do some.Emily: I'm ready to go back.
— Thornton Wilder, Our Town
Each soul must awaken from the aloneness of a private dream world to greet the morning sun, view the sweet earth, apprehend the great silence, and demonstrate an appreciative thanks to everyday of life by living in a rapt state of attentive awareness.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
If you want to feel and know everything the horse is doing, begin by feeling and knowing everything you are doing.
— Catherine Louise Birmingham, Ride for Life; The Three Golden Principles for Riders
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
If you're always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in? Slow down and enjoy the moment you're in and live your life to the fullest.
— Nanette Mathews
To observe is not to not feel—in fact, it is to put yourself at the mercy of feeling, like the child's warm skin meeting the cold air of midnight. My own children, too, have been roused from the unconsciousness of childhood; theirs too is the pain and the gift of awareness. 'I have two homes,' my daughter said to me one evening, clearly and carefully, 'and I have no home.' To suffer and to know what it is that you suffer: how can that be measured against its much-prized opposite, the ability to be happy without knowing why?
— Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
There is nothing to become. The Truth shines here and now. Awareness IS. One does not become it. The Sun shines. One can simply enjoy it or be busy otherwise. That's it. The Sun shines irrespectively.Awareness. Fire. The Song.IT IS.Stop fighting. Stop.
— T.R. Cordón, Glimpses of Her
Have you ever seen a stereogram?The 'Truth' the Stereogram shows us is there in front of us. Training and work doesn't make us see it.It's a point of view, a different way of looking at it.When you see it you try to explain it to someone else and yourealize you can't.It simple, super simple, yet almost impossible to explain.There are 'techniques' to see them but some people may spendyears trying without results. Others can do it in seconds.It doesn't change the fact that the image is there all the time infront of us.And it's Beautiful.
— T.R. Cordón, Glimpses of Her
Balance is not always obtainable in every situation, however, we have the option to surrender our control over the desired outcome and live more easily in the present moment . This will result in greater peace of mind.
— Nanette Mathews
I am not a man of my time. In fact I find it hard not to declare myself its enemy. Not, as I often remark, that I fail to understand it. My comment is merely a pious one. Because I am easy-going I prefer not to be aggressive or hostile and therefore I say that I do not understand those matters which I ought to say I hate or despise. I have sharp hears but I pretend to be hard of hearing, finding as I do that is more elegant to feign this handicap than to admit that I have heard some vulgar sound
— Joseph Roth, The Emperor's Tomb
Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Be an individual, let out the self that hides away at the expense of others approval.
— Nikki Rowe
The aim of sorcerers is to reach a state of total awareness in order to experience all the possibilities of perception available to man. This state of awareness even implies an alternative way of dying.
— Carlos Castañeda, Power of Silence
A man cannot be aware of his destination without the help of his creator
— Sunday Adelaja
I sense love, beauty and power and know I am supported by unseen beings of light.
— Lynne Cockrum-Murphy, Unfolding the Mystery of Self: We are Never Alone
The practice of deep listening is the practice of open inquiry, without assumption or judgement.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
For when the mind becomes bound to a passion of the wandering senses, this passion carries away man's wisdom, even as the wind drives a vessel on the waves.
— Juan Mascaró, The Bhagavad Gita
Those men and women of Yangzhou died a hundred years ago, Tian Haoli, and nothing can be done to change that. But the past lives on in the form of memories, and those in power are always going to want to erase and silence the past, to bury the ghosts. Now that you know about the past, you're no longer an innocent bystander. If you do not act you are complicit with the Emperor and his Blood Drops in this new act of violence, this deed of erasure. Like Wang Xiuchu, you're now a witness. Like him, you must choose what to do. You must decide if, on the day you die, you will regret your choice.
— Ken Liu, The Litigation Master and the Monkey King
Writing is a blurred mirror. Sometimes we work harder to see how we are reflected, but often we avert our gaze from the shadowy image.
— Kristen Twardowski
The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace
If only I lived in a perpetual state of awareness for the infinite daily blessings I'm given.
— Sandra Vischer, Unliving the Dream
Gotama's awakening involved a radical shift of perspective rather than the gaining of privileged knowledge into some higher truth. He did not use the words "know" and "truth" to describe it. He spoke only of waking up to a contingent ground--"this-conditionality, conditioned arising"--that until then had been obscured by his attachment to a fixed position. While such an awakening is bound to lead to a reconsideration of what one "knows," the awakening itself is not primarily a cognitive act. It is an existential readjustment, a seismic shift in the core of oneself and one's relation to others and the world. Rather than providing Gotama with a set of ready-made answers to life's big questions, it allowed him to respond to those questions from an entirely new perspective.To live on this shifting ground, one first needs to stop obsessing about what has happened before and what might happen later. One needs to be more vitally conscious of what is happening now. This is not to deny the reality of past and future. It is about embarking on a new relationship with the impermanence and temporality of life. Instead of hankering after the past and speculating about the future, one sees the present as the fruit of what has been and the germ of what will be. Gotama did not encourage withdrawal to a timeless, mystical now, but an unflinching encounter with the contingent world as it unravels moment to moment.
— Stephen Batchelor, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness.
— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
When we are aware, we step into the moment which is outside of time.
— Belsebuub
Your story matters. The thoughts you think matter. The words you use matter. It can be the difference between getting everything you truly need and want, and not achieving or experiencing those things at all.
— Kristin Rath, Meant for More: Create Your Dream Life, Plan Your Path, and Start Living It Now
The hand of nature was stretching itself out towards him, for the tall grass on the slopes of the Bulashah Hills was in sight, and he had opened his heart to it, lifted by the cool breeze that wafted him away from the crowds, the ugliness and the noise of the outcastes' street. He looked across at the swaying loveliness before him and the little hillocks over which it spread under a sunny sky, so transcendingly blue and beautiful that he felt like standing dumb and motionless before it. He listened to the incoherent whistling of the shrubs. They were the voices he knew so well. He was glad that his friends were ahead of him and that the thrum was not broken, for the curve of his soul seemed to bend over the heights, straining to woo nature in solitude and silence. It seemed to him he would be unhappy if he heard even one human voice. His inside seemed to know that it wouldn't be soothed if there were the slightest obstruction between him and the outer world. It didn't even occur to him to ask why he had come here. He was just swamped by the merest fringe of the magnificent fields that spread before him. He had been startled into an awareness of the mystery of vegetable moods.
— Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable
Every time you find your attention captured by a poster, your awareness, and perhaps something more, has, if only for a moment, been appropriated without your consent.
— Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Moment is a flower. Mindfulness is sipping the nectar of that flower.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
More and more you empty your mind, more and more you come closer to the spirit in the body.
— Roshan Sharma
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
It is important to be aware, who you are now than who you are going to be.?
— Aditya Ajmera
The life you yearn of living and your destiny is co-created in your here-and-now awareness, choices made and actions taken. Live NOW. Don't wait till death bed wishing,...
— Sue Ziang, Young Mind Young Body: Transformational Approach to Rejuvenating Youth and Vitality
The day-to-day grind of adult life brings with it a tedium that weighs heavily on our powers of attention. The same experiences, at the same time and place, day in and day out, breed a familiarity that blunts our senses.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
We have senses we don't know we have-until we lose them; balance is one that normally works so well, so seamlessly, that is not listed among the five that Aristotle described and was overlooked for centuries afterward.
— Norman Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
If there's one thing I can say when it's my time to look back over my glorious life is I lived, bravely and fiercly in the chaos of it all.
— Nikki Rowe
Sometimes we get stuck in patterns or reoccurring themes in our lives that require a shocking epiphany to give us the opportunity to see new possibilities and notice the obstacles that keep us from moving on.
— Kat Lahr, Anatomy Of Illumination
Exile from society allows person to disengage from meaningless activities and develop conscious awareness. A person’s courageous struggle to eliminate the trepidation of social exile produces insights into what it means to be human. We can displace emotional disquiet by living a heightened state of existence. How a person’s resolves the tremendous anxiety and dizziness that impetus comes from contemplating the inevitability of death, human freedom of choice, the moral responsibilities attendant to living in a selected manner, existential isolation, and the possibility of nothingness establishes a governing philosophical framework. A person must not rue ouster from society because release from moral and societal constraints spurs learning and advanced consciousness.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
To steal and copy my messages, given by Babajiis a Testimony of A Great Raper.
— Petra Hermans
Everything I am seems to be inside my awareness, rather than my awareness being inside of me.
— Jay Woodman
The closest analogy, the one her brain reached for and rejected and reached for again, was splashing into a lake. It was cold, but not cold. There was a smell, rich and loamy. The smell of growth and decay. She was aware of her body, the skin, the sinew, the curl of her gut. She was aware of the nerves that were firing in her brain as she became aware of the nerves firing in her brain. She unmade herself and watched herself being unmade. All the bacteria on her skin and in her blood, the virii in her tissues. The woman who had been Elvi Okoye became a landscape. A world. She fell farther in.
— James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn
During each encounter, ask yourself: How does this incident bring greater awareness into my life?
— Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy
If you're KING be aware of KINGS!
— Er.Akash Patel
They've Already Won (the modern day crusade)
— Seyed Moussavi (self)
Factors Influencing Us as EmpathsThere are a number of factors affecting how we pick up energy from other people:●	ReceivingOur sensitivity as receivers will factor into how much energy we pick up.●	SendingSome people transmit their energy more strongly than others, and the depth of the emotions that they are experiencing will also turn up the volume that they are sending out.●	Awareness The unaware person may be just as sensitive as the aware person. The latter will understand why they have mood swings; the former will not.●	Bloodline Blood relatives will affect us regardless of where in the world we are and whether we are thinking about them or not. The link between sender and receiver is often stronger where there is a blood connection. Often, empath children may process the emotions of their parents or siblings long into adulthood.●	Emotional ConnectionFriends and acquaintances will impact us primarily based on the strength of the emotional connection we have to them, largely without regard to physical proximity. The stronger the emotional connection is, the less important the physical proximity is. Having worked from home for many years with teams spread all over the country, I have picked up energy from managers and teammates regardless of location.●	Physical ProximityNeighbors and strangers will influence us based on physical proximity. This is true for the people living in our neighborhood and the strangers we brush up against in the shopping mall.
— Trevor N. Lewis, Abbigayle McKinney
It's embarrassing when a leader is clueless about his/her limitations (blind spots) while his/her people are well aware and making fun out of them.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Awareness is the first step in rewriting old stories.
— Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, The Stress Solution: Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience
Most people have the blindness of new-born things - a not-incurable blindness, the sight being there but its use not known.
— Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November
...the presence of each other and a lusty love of being, of living and knowing there was tomorrow and God knows how many more tomorrows and each a life and sufficient in itself...
— Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November
It occurred to me that when I begin to write, I open myself and wait. And when I turn toward an inner spiritual awareness, I open myself and wait.
— Pat Schneider, How the Light Gets in: Writing as a Spiritual Practice
I mean …” Dennis was saying, looking pointedly at Mave, but Mave was watching the waitress approach. Oh, life, oh, sweet, forgiven for the ice … He grabbed Mave’s wrist. There was always an emergency. And then there was love. And then there was another emergency. That was the sandwiching of it. Emergency. Love. Emergency. “I mean, it’s not as if you’ve been dozing off,” Dennis was saying, his voice reaching her now, high and watery. “I mean, correct me if I’m wrong,” he said, “but I don’t think I’ve been having this conversation alone.” He tightened his grip. “I mean, have I?
— Lorrie Moore, Like Life
Inspiration works on the same sense as humans, quite generous yet impatient. When it calls, better respond there and then or it moves shop.
— Unarine Ramaru
If you go too fast you might not notice everything. On the other hand, you don't want to be late.
— Maira Kalman
Awareness of your shortcomings is a strengthening process.
— Ehsan Sehgal
Trying to keep up appearances is a signal of decay on the inside. Beware shallow living—in yourself and in others. It is only in the depths that life can thrive.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Awareness is the eye through which we can experience abundance.
— Shilpa Menon
The quality of your awareness determines the quality of life you experience.
— Shilpa Menon
It is not easy to talk about a condition once dismissed as ‘the career women’s disease’. But women will continue to suffer until we realise the cost of ignoring it
— Hilary Mantel
Do you ever feel like this? You're moving through the world, encountering people left and right but there's something not quite present - like you KNOW there's more to them, but it's like they're sleeping. Or closed. And so, somehow, you have to close a little, too. Then you meet someone who side-slides into the room of life and screams, "I'm alive! I'm present! Here I am!" And you think, "There you are! I KNEW you were alive. I've been looking everywhere for you!" And you can tell they're awake. And even if you ended up hating them later, you would love them because they weren't sleeping, and with them you didn't have to sleep, either. I'm pretty sure that's what makes real friends happen.
— Jennifer DeLucy
The purpose of both, awareness and consciousness, is to lead us towards this path of Oneness.
— Gian Kumar
We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness…True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation.One’s inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of one’s most intimate sources.In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives. The more coherent one becomes within oneself as a creature, the more fully one enters into the communion of all creatures.
— Wendell Berry
Love will drive you insane, but never let it drive you stupid or blind.
— Shannon L. Alder