Heightened Awareness Quotes

The more you look, the more you will see.

To successfully open the door to heightened awareness, we must open it inward.

Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.

It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.

The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.

But if you can expand that consciousness, make it grow, then when you read about that book, you'll have more understanding; when you look out, more awareness; when you wake up, more wakefulness; as you go about your day, more inner happiness.

When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.

They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. "Carry this with you on your journey," he said softly, "for there is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. Through it you can see everything from the tender moss in a sidewalk crack to the glow of the farthest star — and, most important of all, you can see things as they really are, not just as they seem to be. It's my gift to you.

I'm always on my guard now.

Many & most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love & hate & fear cause time to snag you, to drag you down like a spider's web holding fast to a doomed fly's wings. And when you're caught like that you're aware of every moment & movement & nuance.

Love heightens all senses - except the common.

I actually think I think better in high heels.

Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

Given Ivan's size and power, we must remain vigilant.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

Stuart stands and says, 'Come here,' and he's on my side of the room in one stride and he claps my hands to his hips and kisses my mouth like I am the drink he's been dying for all day and I've heard girls say it's like melting, that feeling. But I think it's like rising, growing even taller and seeing sights over a hedge, colors you've never seen before.

Just because we are back home, don't get comfortable. Have that same uptight feeling like it's just us against everyone.

. . . just as God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, as we become more like Him, neither can we. The best people have a heightened awareness of what little of the worst is still in them! Indeed, the divine discontent, the justifiable spiritual restlessness that we feel, is a natural follow-on feeling in the disciple who has taken the Lord's counsel to "make you a new heart and a new spirit." (Ezekiel 18:31.)