Quotes About Awareness

How could a man know the truth of his own soul?

Part of the problem is that people at our school don't listen. They just put on the headphones and tune out the world. It's intimidating.

We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it.

Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…

One must ask for death to know how good it is to live

It's not a question of whether a person's been inspired by God, the only question is, has that person realized it, or not?

No church or synagogue pew can produce a higher awareness of God than sitting at the base of a tree and observing His creation.

Our spiritual journey is always a journey inward. The outward journey in life is just to show you yourself as reflected in the faces and places you visit.

What provokes readers to experience their own profound sense of self?

Who even *heard* of gluten till a few years ago?

You know, Granna, going around saying how you don't watch TV... It's not even pretentious anymore... it's just plain out of it.

For the practice of yoga to be nourishing and creative, there must be a dialogue between the active, or intentional, mind and the reflective, or receptive, mind. If you are ruled by the active mind, your practice becomes forced and mechanical because you never listen to your body: you treat it like a machine. If you are ruled by the reflective mind, your practice becomes formless and inert, and loses its sense of purpose.

First, he became aware of it. Many of us don't seem able to take even this step. Second, and most significant, he chose not to focus on reinforcing its weaker threads. Instead, he did the exact opposite: He identified its strongest threads, wove in education and experience, and built them into the dominating strengths we see today.

I would know Christina Rossetti in a minute but not you.

In the poetry of attention, poems are not problems.

I walk reciting every quiet word I know...

Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)

it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47)

To be mindful of social phenomena is thus to identify more clearly hatred, greed, and delusion as well as the seeds of wisdom and compassion both around us and in us. (p. 52)

The most valuable sense of humor is the kind that enables a person to see instantly what it isn't safe to laugh at

Only the ignorant would believe that things exist in the way that they appear.

You might think of praying without ceasing as communicating with God on one line while also taking calls on another. Even while you are talking on the other line, you never lose your awareness of the need to return your attention to the Lord. So praying without ceasing means you never really stop conversing with God; you simply have frequent interruptions.

You may be singing 'Holy, holy, holy,' but if you aren't thinking about God while singing it, you are not worshiping.

When there is little awareness of real need, there is little real prayer.