“Being aware is being aware of one's own mind and the games it plays on itself.”

“Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.”

“Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes change.”

“I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood... I was raving, if only to myself.”

“Because minds do blow and hearts do break. Those are not just sayings. And wolves and roaches are not the only creatures that chew off their legs to get out of traps—human beings do that, too.”

“There are some moments you'd rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that carry you from present to future. And it's mostly those moments in which it's smarter-safer- to stay awake.”

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but are spiritual beings having a human experience.”