Quotes About Awareness

I prefer to be noticed, some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye . . .

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.

when you become more mindful of what you put in your body every day, that mindfulness will seep into everything you do. Instead of sleepwalking through your life, you'll be more adept at living in the present moment. And the present, as I like to say, is the only place where good things can happen to you in life.

People who know better do better. If

I understand that for beginners it isn't that easy to sit down, close your eyes, and settle into stillness. Your thoughts have gotten used to making SO MUCH NOISE! They have enjoyed too much influence over you to simply fade the first time you try.

Without stillness, life is a blur.

When we become more aware of how powerfully our choices in diet and lifestyle affect us—for better and for worse—then we can make different ones." —DR. DEAN ORNISH Sorry

Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.

There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.

It turned out that while you were searching for the meaning of life, you missed the experience of being alive.

It's not hard. You just need to think of what you have instead of what you don't.

You just need to think of what you have instead of what you don't.

What is "male privilege," and why is it important to name the elephant in the living room? My friend Patricia Monaghan (of blessed memory) describes it this way: "For those who have male privilege, it's like a person wearing strong perfume. Rarely can the wearer smell it, but those around begin to leave the room.

a little knowledge would unlock the gates to vast and unsuspected gates of ignorance.

Before long he felt the peaceful floating sensation of a man vaguely and happily aware that he is falling asleep.

The practice of "turning aside to look" is a spiritual discipline that by its very nature sets us up for an encounter with God.

El silencio nos ayuda a bucear por debajo de la superficialidad de nuestras construcciones mentales hasta el lugar de nuestro corazón, que resulta más profundo en cuanto a su realidad, que cualquier cosa que la mente pueda captar o expresar en palabras.

In silence our speech patterns are refined because silence fosters a self-awareness that enables us to choose more truly the words that we say.

The real surprise was not that this happened but the fact that the shift was so subtle. After all, the purposes for which I was using the Scriptures were not bad in and of themselves. It's just that over time, without my awareness, those purposes had trumped the greater purpose for which the Scriptures have been given: to allow my own heart and soul to be penetrated by an intimate word from God. My mind remained engaged, but my heart and soul had drifted far away.

Discernment, in a most general sense, is the capacity to recognize and respond to the presence and the activity of God—both in the ordinary moments and in the larger decisions of our lives.

Aun cuando nuestra forma de vida pueda parecernos heroica, hay una buena proporción de nuestra frenética actividad que perturba a aquellos que nos rodean.

Pero los tiempos de soledad y silencio no son tiempos para emitir juicios con respecto nuestra conducta. Son tiempos para darnos cuenta, para descubrir, la verdad sobre nosotros mismos en un momento dado, y entonces presentarnos a Dios con todo aquello que hemos notado.

Cuando eso sucede, pierdo contacto con aquel lugar del centro de mi ser que me da conciencia acerca de quién soy en Dios, en el que descubro lo que he sido llamada a hacer, y donde puedo responder a su voz privilegiándola por sobre todas las otras voces. Cuando eso sucede, estoy a merced de todo tipo de fuerzas externas, llevada de aquí para allá por otras expectativas y por mis propias compulsiones.