Annie Dillard Quotes About Awareness

Quotes about: Awareness

• I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.

  Annie Dillard

  Sea, Skins, Dolphins

  Annie Dillard (1989). “An American childhood”

• The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness... The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. The dear, stupid body is easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious mind will hush if you give it an egg.

  Annie Dillard

  Stupid, Simple, Eggs

• It's about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices that she's living. She dreams along, loving the exuberant life of the senses, in love with beauty and power, oblivious to herself -- and then suddenly, bingo, she wakes up and feels herself alive. She notices her own awareness. And she notices that she is set down here, mysteriously, in a going world.

  Annie Dillard

  Dream, Children, Loving Life

• I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.

  Annie Dillard

  Air, Layers, Awareness

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.68, Canongate Books

• The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God.

  Annie Dillard

  Mind, World, Want

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.18, Canongate Books

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