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We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection... We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it...to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely... When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking... I feel I lose my fire and my color.
Sep 19, 2025
Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.
The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels.
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?
In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her unscheduled departure form Villette my telling that particular lie will not be required. The majority of people who attempt suicide repeat that attempt until they succeed. I took a risk in lying to her about her condition, i decided to test the only remedy i have come to have any faith in: awareness of life. Until she finds out from some other doctor that she is perfectly healthy. She'll consider each day a miracle. Which in my view it is.
Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.
On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.
To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications.
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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