And we strive to live from that place within us, where we are that Awareness, that connection to Source, that Union with God, such that no matter what happens in the human drama, whether wondrous or unspeakably, intolerably awful, Awareness is a constant.
As a child, she wondered: 'Am I ever going to get away from this awful self-awareness?
If I could go crazy, if I could will that on myself, I might not know how badly off I am, how awful is this awareness that is irremediably aware of itself.
"I don't think there are more and more awful things happening, but awareness has been heightened.
It would be months before I stopped flinching every time a plane passed over the house, before I could put the fresh, raw awareness that awful things can happen to anyone at anytime, back into a deep, neglected corner of my mind.
But he had taken seriously his impossible role of filling the political and cultural voids of his followers and he soon found himself drifting, with an awful sense of self-awareness, into the limbo world of someone who used to be the voice of a generation.
HBO's contribution to an expanded awareness of the awful realities of war continues with a new documentary, "Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq".
Beneath all the overcooked silliness there's a hint of something melancholic – an awareness of the awful beauty of living life one day at a time, past and future erased by the simple act of sleep.
"It is my hope that I might raise awareness of this awful disease and hasten the day that an effective test can be discovered to give women a fighting chance to catch this cancer in its earliest stage," she said.
In the big picture, this has actually helped awareness of how awful the hate community is toward LGBT people.
These are the private, everyday tragedies of mental illness, sadly overshadowed by the rare and awful mass shootings that raise awareness but also contribute to fear and discrimination.
