“In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.” ThinkingKindFoundLossNumbersGoneStudyAwarenessDuesExistentialImpressiveBereavementConfrontationWidowsWidowers Author:Irvin D. Yalom
“I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.” KnowsBodyEnergyConsciousnessGoneAwarenessIndependentPhysical Body Author:Phoebe Snow
“For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.” WayNeedsFormLyingLiteratureSecretNovelGoneOur LivesAwarenessFlowImportanceDetermineSensitiveSatireSympathyTidesCleansingNew PlacesEbb And FlowRecoilSecret Places Book:Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
“Without external pressure, things might have gone very differently. That has always been true for African Americans; the better we've been at raising international awareness, the better off we've been at realizing solutions to our own problems.” ProblemMightRealizingGoneAwarenessSolutionsPressureInternationalAfrican AmericanBetter OffSure Thing Author:Michael C Dawson
“Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.” KnowsLittlesSchoolCertainGoneWorstAwarenessTaughtWillingHigh SchoolIgnorantCagedI Know Why The Caged Bird SingsBeing Ignorant Book:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man.” MenWayDifferentPleasureGoneAwarenessLimitsDegradationDespicable Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that dreadful, loathsome death, the only reality, relentlessly closing in on him; and that same endless lie. What did days, weeks, or hours matter?” MadeMatterRealityPainLyingNightHoursDifferencesMorningGoneWeekAwarenessEndlessPassingPassingsSundayFridayClosingIncessantAwareness Of Life Author:Leo Tolstoy
“The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy. Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld That awareness is my teaching. Never fight with greed, ego, anger, jealousy, hatred - all those enemies that the religions have been telling you, 'Fight with them, crush them, kill them. You cannot kill them, you cannot crush them, you cannot fight with them; all that you can do is just be aware of them.' And the moment you are aware, they are gone. In the light, the darkness simply disappears.” Has BeensMomentsLightFightingCan DoBornQualityEnemyDarknessGoneTeachingAwarenessEgoHatredMarkGreedEnvyDisappearJealousyCrushTruestGreat QualitiesYour Jealous Author:Rajneesh
“Awareness, beholding the mind, is the most essential method to have a breakthrough. And once you have gone just a step beyond the mind, you have entered the world of nirvana, you have entered the world of light and eternal life. You have attained to spiritual integrity, freedom, and tremendous ecstasy which the mind cannot even dream about.” WorldMindDreamLightSpiritualStepsGoneAwarenessIntegrityEssentialsEternalMethodEcstasyBreakthroughEternal LifeSpiritual Integrity Author:Rajneesh