Quotes About Awareness

If you feel far from God, guess who moved?

With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

When death finds you, may it find you alive.

If he is smart, he will run. He is not.

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

Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are as strange as hell.

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

Life is poetry," said Mae. "Stop. Watch. Listen. There's poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don't write itself.

Collin admired this man a minute more, unable to remove his eyes from the reflection, barely even remembering to breathe. He never noticed the slender, short brunette standing behind his shoulder, also taking in his reflection, until she whistled in appreciation.

Without ever deciding to, Collin moved his legs. He crossed the bustling downtown street, just aware enough of the cars, buses, and bicycles zipping by to dodge them. But his eyes remained on the man who looked like him, who checked his watch No, that's my watch, he reminded himself-and then picked up his pace, apparently realizing he was about to be late for work. Late for

through the crowd, headed in the direction of Collin's workplace. He wasn't a man who merely resembled Collin. He was him. The same face, the same body, the same walk. He wore the clothes and raincoat Collin had put on that morning. He carried Collin's briefcase. It was only then that Collin noticed he no longer

Faith is always supposed to make it harder, not easier, to ignore the plight of our sisters and brothers. (p. 165)

We tend to overemphasize and over-rely on our minds to the point where we disengage from our bodies and let our instincts and intuition atrophy. This is neither safe nor wise, and causes us to live in more fear than is healthy.

To call something unremarkable simply because it happens every day and is commonly available is harmful to the enthusiasm and depth with which we can live.

Bodies always tell the truth. They give us hints of how to listen for it, and to recognize it when we hear or see it.

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened".

The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.

The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness.

One thing I've learned in the woods is that there is no such thing as random. Everything is steeped in meaning, colored by relationships, one thing with another.

A teacher comes, they say, when you are ready. And if you ignore its presence, it will speak to you more loudly. But you have to be quiet to hear.

What is it that brings me here to stand like a rock in this river of sound?

Strawberries first shaped my view of a world full of gifts simply scattered at your feet. A gift comes to you through no action of your own, free, having moved toward you without your beckoning. It is not a reward; you cannot earn it, or call it to you, or even deserve it. And yet it appears. Your only role is to be open-eyed and present.

Our toddlers speak of plants and animals as if they were people, extending to them self and intention and compassion---until we teach them not to.