“[P]lease don’t think that I’m giving you moral advice, or that I’m saying you are supposed to think this way, or that anyone expects you to just automatically do it. Because it’s hard. It takes will and effort, and if you are like me, some days you won’t be able to do it, or you just flat out won’t want to. But most days, if you’re aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed, over-made-up lady who just screamed at her kid in the checkout line. Maybe she’s not usually like this. Maybe she’s been up three straight nights holding the hand of a husband who is dying of bone cancer. Or maybe this very lady is the low-wage clerk at the motor vehicle department, who just yesterday helped your spouse resolve a horrific, infuriating, red-tape problem through some small act of bureaucratic kindness. Of course, none of this is likely, but it’s also not impossible. It just depends what you want to consider. If you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won’t consider possibilities that aren’t annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.”
“We have only a little time to please the living, But all eternity to love the dead.”
“If you are not aware of the right time and right direction even the sunrise looks like sunset.”
“Living inside this head was a torture of endless looping thoughts and self-hatred. Like many women, my suffering manifested itself through my relationship with my body that transcended self-hatred into self-destruction. There’s no need to go into any more detail about what it was like. What I do want to offer is that there is hope.”
“I don’t understand skinny jeans. I don’t understand why people like them, wear them, or buy them. If I want something to hug my calves that tight, I would get a dog that follows me around and humps my legs all day.”
“I have decided to use my voice to tell you stuff that you may not otherwise know. Not to scare you or make you feel bad, but to inform you so you’re not totally taken by surprise as I have been. Maybe it’s my own ignorance. Maybe it’s lack of cable. After all, don’t they talk about this shit on Dr. Oz? By the way, how many of us can relate to a person who would be an audience member of daytime talk show?”
“I write because I have to write, like a singer who has to sing or a musician who has to make music. I write not so much as to have people read my writing, I write to connect, to engage, to feel less alone. I also write to allow others to feel related to what I’m writing about, to laugh, to cry, to identify within themselves similar feelings and to evoke a memory. I used to think my journey was so unique yet it’s not, and for that I am grateful. If I can’t be a rock star, then I will be a write star even if in my own eyes.”
“When there is transparency, your employees are aware of how their work is contributing to the project which makes them become more committed to the project.”
“In solitude, listen to your heart, for at that moment, it speaks nothing but the truth.”
“The past exists to make us appreciative, aware, and wise. It is a lesson, nothing more.”
“Good results are always getting to us with our good thoughts. Main important thing is can we aware to create good thoughts?”
“Be patient, this is a sign of high awareness.”
“Amazing stuff happens every day!”
“We are a totality – a whole comprising our unconscious and conscious. If our unconscious takes a decision, are we to disown it? Our unconscious is as much “us” as our conscious is – in fact, arguably more so. Our unconscious can be seen as our true, immortal Self, and our conscious as a contingent, mortal persona – a mask we wear during this lifetime.”
“God, am I awake? Yes, you have always been, God answered. Why I do not see then? Because you choose to keep your eyes closed.”
“What a campfire wants from you is to constantly feed it with wood; what a wood wants from you is to never bring it closer to the fire! You see, as awareness increases, your mind starts to hear even the wishes of what you call inanimate!”
“I have spent many years of my research life talking about how people have limited agency - that we make choices & live lives in specific conditions in which we have little control. This is a fundamental starting point for sociologists. But after my friend finished speaking, I reminded him: that s a great analogy, but there are important differences. The laws of physics do not care for considered action. Molecules, atoms, gravity, force - these are not moral actors. But we are.”