“This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe.” FirstsKindForceRiskAwarenessFirst TimeTablesFilledInsanityAweGamblingPulseGambleFrantic Author:Paul Auster
“The second part of that war was that Muslims came from all over the country to Pakistan, and they met each other. For the first time those men had an awareness of the Islamic world as a whole, not of just Egypt or Algeria or Indonesia, but of what Muslims call the Uma, the Islamic community. And that's an extraordinarily important thing. And that emanated in Pakistan.” MenWorldFirstsImportantWarCountryWholeCommunityAwarenessMetsFirst TimeImportant ThingsIslamicEgyptPakistanIndonesiaAlgeria Author:Michael Scheuer
“I have this awareness that the more dynamic the situation is, the more on guard I need to be that the dynamic isn't controlling the situation. I found that myself in the Galapagos. For the first time in my life I was around very exotic animals, colorful, beautiful, and immediately present, all around. Birds, turtles, iguanas, seals. I was being seduced by their exoticism, I was taking pictures.The pictures weren't well lit, there was no moment in play, there was no depth to the pictures. I was just gawking with my camera at something I'd never seen before.” NeedsFirstsWellsPlayMomentsBeautifulFoundAnimalSituationAwarenessBirdFirst TimeCamerasDepthLitExoticSealsColorfulTurtlesTaking PicturesIguanasExotic Animals Author:Sam Abell
“I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.” FirstsLooksMeanHas BeensDreamSleepAwarenessYogaFirst TimeAwake Book:Leaves of Grass Source: Leaves of Grass
“What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don’t worry about death, or about [anything for that matter]… We need this; we need this so we can love other people purely and not for selfish gain, we need this so we can see everybody as equals, we need this so our relationships can be sincere, we need this so we can stop kicking ourselves around, we need this so we can lose all self-awareness and find ourselves for the first time, not by realizing some dream, but by being told who we are by the only Being who has the authority to know, by that I mean the Creator.” PeopleKnowsNeedsFirstsMeanSelfMatterDreamRealizingLosesWorryAwarenessAuthorityGainsFirst TimeSelf AwarenessCreatorSelfishWho We AreSincereOur RelationshipKicking Author:Donald Miller
“What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.” FirstsForceMy OwnGriefAwarenessWasteOceanFirst TimeWeightIndifferentLimitlessBoundlessStarksStranded Author:John Banville
“The ultimate meditation is: surrender to reality. The more you fight, the more you are in conflict with it, the more you will be a loser. In deep surrender, the ego disappears. And when the ego is not there, for the first time you become aware of that which has always been there.” FirstsRealitySpiritualFightingMeditationAwarenessConflictEgoLosingFirst TimeUltimateDisappearSurrenderDeepLoserMystic Author:Rajneesh