Quotes About Awareness

The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C. S. Lewis

Your emotions are governed not by the circumstances of your life, but by the circumstances to which you pay attention

Todo cambia. El truco está en entregarse por completo, vivir el momento y, cuando haya pasado, no tener de qué arrepentirse ni volver la vista atrás. Ser consciente de que pasará y no sufrir por ello. Que sea lo que tenga que ser.

La realidad es una ilusión de tu percepción... Cambia la percepción y cambiarás la realidad.

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

In fact, seeing what is actually there with our conscious mind is really hard to do, and most people never learn how to do it! The brain is actively hiding the real world from us.

how we think we know what we think we know.

The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.

Often we are not aware of how close we are to that which we need but we think we do not have. In His grace, God has placed some hidden gold somewhere in all of us that meets our need at a desperate moment.

WONDER IS ONE OF THOSE "POSSESSIONS" THAT NEEDS DISCIPLINED GUARDING AND THOUGHTFUL GUIDING.

I am well aware that objects are nearer than they appear and should be handled with care. These

they have ears, but cannot hear

We miss the roses and see only the thorns. We take for granted the warmth of the sun and get depressed by the frequency of the rain or the snow. We ignore the sounds of life in a nursery because we are preoccupied with the sounds of sirens responding to an emergency.

A veces, quienes hemos sido bendecidos tan grandemente parecemos ser los menos capaces de ver la gracia de la mano de Dios sobre nosotros mismos.

I am not a fisherman, but the other day I read some simple rules for fishing. One was this: Be sure your face is toward the light! The skillful fisherman will always see that the sun shines upon his face and that his shadow falls behind him. He who turns his back to the sun and lets his shadow darken the stream has said good-bye to all the trout. That

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.1 So said the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

The hallmark of conversion is to see one's own spiritual poverty. arrogance and conceit ought to be inimical to the life of the believer. A deep awareness of one's own new hungers and longings is a convincing witness both to God and God's grace within.

The part of you that thinks of itself as human, is not human - (Maharaj Nisargadatta)

Process is the amount of time we give ourselves to feel safe enough to admit what we already know is true.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know.

I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.

I'm ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don't watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you're doing and it's the first time, really.

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.