Endometriosis Awareness Month Quotes

Endometriosis is notoriously difficult to diagnose because the symptoms are perverse. A woman with mild endometriosis can be in an agony for days every month (or every day for every month); women with the severe kind can have hardly any pain at all, like me. ~ Rose George

It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms appear in their fragrance and loveliness. And the month when lovers, subject to the same force which reawakens the plants, feel their hearts open again, recall past trysts and past vows, and moments of tenderness, and yearn for a renewal of the magical awareness which is love. ~ Thomas Malory

Everything I am seems to be inside my awareness, rather than my awareness being inside of me. ~ Jay Woodman

National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it. ~ Lois Capps

First month honey ... Next month pie ... Third month ... Get out here and work, you damn bitch, same as I. ~ Karen Cecil Smith

Without awareness we can do nothing, but awareness alone means nothing ~ Daniel Mangena

Praise belongs to God who appointed among those roads His month, the month of Ramadan, the month of fasting, the month of submission, the month of purity, the month of putting to test, the month of standing in prayer, in which the Quran was sent down as guidance to the people, and as clear signs of the Guidance and the Separator. ~ Imam Zayn Al 'Abidin Al-Sahifat Al-Sajjadiyya

You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. ~ Ramana Maharshi

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. ~ Eric Hoffer

It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem among teenage girls, and it's something that every young woman who has painful menstruation should be aware of ... it's a condition that is curable if it's caught early. If not, if it's allowed to run on, it can cause infertility, and it can really mess up your life.
[Author Hilary Mantel on being asked about being a writer with endometriosis, Nov 2012 NPR interview] ~ Hilary Mantel

Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness. ~ Theodosius Dobzhansky

Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us. ~ Thomas Merton

What I am saying is that there is no need for anybody to suffer. Just be aware, let awareness be there. Anger will arise and will be consumed by awareness. One cannot be angry with awareness and one cannot be greedy with awareness and one cannot be jealous with awareness. Awareness is the golden key. ~ Rajneesh

I had bad endometriosis when I was younger, and a doctor told me I'd have a lot of trouble getting pregnant. ~ Liane Moriarty

I've worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it's awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are. ~ Deepak Chopra

Bring awareness to each act. Walking on the road, walk fully alert; eating, eat with awareness. Whatsoever you are doing, don't let the past and the future interfere. Be in the present. That's what awareness is all about. ~ Rajneesh

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school. ~ Roy H. Williams

If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth. ~ Ramana Maharshi

From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being. ~ Frederick Lenz

Awareness is the greatest agent for change. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat. ~ David Quammen

Atisha says: Awareness inside, compassion on the outside. Compassion is the outer side of awareness, the exterior of awareness. Awareness is your interiority, subjectivity. Compassion is relating with others, sharing with others. ~ Osho

We need to maintain an awareness of our awareness, of what we are paying attention to, in order to discriminate between higher and lower forms of love. ~ Paul O'Brien

A commenter on one endometriosis
Facebook group reported, "My doctor told me having a baby would help
my pain. I'm only eleven. ~ Maya Dusenbery

Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness. ~ Fritjof Capra

We must intend to live [the new spiritual awareness], to integrate each increased degree of awareness into our daily routine. It only takes one negative interpretation to stop everything. ~ James Redfield

Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First Lady Michelle Obama's leadership of efforts to end childhood obesity within this generation. ~ Richard Carmona

One 1993 study suggested that up to 40 percent of black women with endometriosis were misdiagnosed as having sexually transmitted PID. "It was so blatantly racist it just blows my mind," Ballweg says. ~ Maya Dusenbery

I thank God for the month of November! I love the month of November. My God, I am grateful for this gracious and glorious month. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awareness. Instead of a belief system, awareness sees through all beliefs. ~ Joan Tollifson

Awareness is not an idea about awareness, as it is not thought at all. Awareness allows you to feel life as it's happening, as it is in perception that consciousness and all spiritual qualities are manifest. ~ Belsebuub

Without awareness there is no freedom. Awareness is vital for any possibility of free choice. ~ Simon Boylan

Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Change can only begin with awareness. ~ Miranda J. Barrett

Existence is the awareness of awareness. ~ Frederick Lenz

It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken. ~ G.I. Gurdjieff

Black History Month is dedicated to heroes that paved the way for Black people. It's a month that's very imperative because it gives those who lack the knowledge of our heroes a chance to gain insight. It's not just about the month, it's about the years that it took for us to get to this one month and it's beyond placing a value on how much Black History Month really means to me. ~ Alana Beard

Resting in Awareness, we transform all the 'stuff' of our lives. ~ Ram Dass

With self-awareness you grow more intelligent. In awareness you learn, in self-awareness you learn about yourself. Of course, you can only learn what you are not. To know what you are, you must go beyond the mind. Awareness is the point at which the mind reaches out beyond itself into reality. In awareness you seek not what pleases, but what is true. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Awakening is to become aware of your awareness.
Be in the awareness of your presence, rather than being in the now. ~ Gian Kumar

I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad. ~ John Corbett

I sailed around Europe and lived with the Karen tribe in Thailand for a month. ~ Lily Nicksay

I arrive a month premature, with my dad's brains but not much else. ~ Stephen Rodrick

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

I manage to read about one book a month, all fantasy these days. ~ Mark Lawrence

A month before the season I stop putting ketchup on my french fries. ~ Mario Lemieux

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails. ~ Piers Anthony

If Madonna asks anybody to go and hang out with them for a month, they'd all do it. ~ Vicky McClure

Thought doesn't wrap around awareness. Awareness wraps around thought. ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

The most time I spent home in 2009 was about a month. ~ Theophilus London

The way to build your savings is by spending less each month. ~ Suze Orman

A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country. ~ Howard Dietz

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. ~ Bodhidharma

Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health. ~ Jean Houston

I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends. ~ Nadia Comaneci

October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else. ~ Bryan Kest

In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside. As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind's compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing. ~ Adyashanti

You don't usually have to wait a month for a new episode of a TV show. We ask comic readers to wait a month for a new issue, and honestly, given the time that it takes to put them together, a month is really too fast. ~ Kelly Sue DeConnick

Where ignorance is bliss, awareness is joy, and self-awareness is orgasmic. ~ Nityananda Das

So many of my friends have 200,000 subscribers, and they make around five to six K a month, which is completely cool. ~ Michelle Phan

I don't see myself as the Hunk of the Month. ~ Pierce Brosnan

Raise you awareness and cultivate your uniqueness. ~ Amit Ray

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair. ~ Irvin D. Yalom

You are a little band of awareness and your awareness moves from one state of mind to another. ~ Frederick Lenz

I'm very into working out, but I'm one of those where I'm good for, like, a month, and then I fall off, and then I'm good for a month ... like everyone! ~ JWoww

O month when they who love must love and wed. ~ Helen Hunt Jackson

The final result of all life is your awareness. Your awareness is existence. ~ Frederick Lenz

To be free of the discriminating is to manifest miraculous awareness-awareness that is miraculously simple, miraculously unadorned. ~ Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

He was as fresh as is the month of May. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer

You're going to relegate my history to a month. ~ Morgan Freeman

President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind? ~ David Letterman

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month. ~ Nicholas D. Kristof

If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. ~ Chris Wedge

A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on 'Lost.' ~ Evangeline Lilly

It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian. ~ Hugh Laurie

I finished the movie a month ago in downtown Los Angeles. I had a lot of fun doing it. ~ Coolio

'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half. ~ Hannibal Buress

Awareness cannot be at the end of a process
because the very striving, and the process itself,
is arising and appearing in the Awareness
which is timelessly present. ~ Mooji

I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month. ~ Bryan Adams

I once ate nothing but grapefruit for an entire month. I didn't lose a pound. ~ Ruth Reichl

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer. ~ Frank Herbert

Do not become self-absorbed, but become self-aware. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure. ~ Mike Jackson

I'm giving away 2 percent of my net income every month. I don't think Bill Gates is doing that. ~ Husnu Ozyegin

Self awareness allows you to self-correct. ~ Bill Hybels

Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification. ~ Ramana Maharshi

Even the geekiest of guys could get the girl if he read every romance novel that came out in any given month. ~ Teresa Medeiros

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you? ~ Vernor Vinge

I believe in opening mail once a month, whether it needs it or not. ~ Bob Considine

I would rather have one minute at this age than a month at 21. ~ William Holden

I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month. ~ Sally Kirkland

I have to say, that I am delighted that Secretary [Hillary] Clinton month after month after month seems to be adopting more and more of the positions that we have advocated. ~ Hillary Clinton

Find $50 a month for savings. No excuses! ~ Suze Orman

April is the cruellest month. ~ T. S. Eliot

Mindfulness removes the emotional fogs of negative thoughts with the light of awareness. ~ Amit Ray

If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored. ~ Joel Edgerton

Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country. ~ Uta Hagen

I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month. ~ Nandan Nilekani

Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind. ~ Andrew Weil