Quotes About Awareness

While it can be therapeutic to put something off, procrastination or ignoring a problem isn't self-care; in fact, it's the opposite. Ignoring a problem just makes it more of a problem. Self-care involves scheduling things so that they don't reach problem status and includes being kind to your future self by not leaving her a mess to handle.

Hearthcraft functions on a very basic truth: Living your life is a spiritual act.

Finding this true self can be a remarkably difficult goal. We lie to ourselves on a regular basis, often so well that we are completely deaf to certain aspects of our personalities until the day we die. Working with that shadowed side of ourselves can be rewarding, however, and maintaining a harmony between our darker aspects and our positive aspects brings our personal energy into balance.

We are in training to be all right no matter what our experience is. This is not to say that there will not be countless times when we will judge the pain in our back or our breath - that is the nature of a wobbly mind - but we will increasingly see clearly that we do not want to go down this route.

watched the setting sun as it sent bursts of colors across the sky as he thought about the question. "Because what we choose to do between the two is entirely up to us. I find it amazing that we're all given the exact same amount of time but what differs is how we utilize it.

We must look beneath every stone, lest it conceal some orator ready to sting us.

Open your mind before your mouth

All men desire to know

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

To perceive is to suffer.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.

you did it, not because you're being punished. He can tell the difference too!

We conduct our lives according to our sense of right and wrong. We somehow possess an awareness of what we "ought" to do. When we fail to do what we "ought," a part of our mind we call "conscience" evokes an unpleasant feeling we call "guilt." Is that feeling—present in almost all individuals—an indication of a God-given moral law? Or does it simply reflect what we have been taught by our parents?

awareness of our mortality causes pain because our most deep-seated need is for permanence and our most pervasive fear is separation from those we love. The Psalmist tells us that there is wisdom in the awareness that our days are numbered (Psalm 90:12). But in that awareness lies pain as well.

Those who have spent time arguing instead of studying things as they are show all too clearly that they are incapable of seeing much at all.

I think I underestimated you," Keane said. And there it was. The light bulb had come on in his head and he was staring at me. I'd messed up. Arrogance was always my worst enemy.

If you underdress your baby, he'll probably let you know about it; babies usually complain loudly when they're too cold. Babies who are too hot, though, tend not to complain, preferring instead to lie there listlessly.

If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf.