Quotes About Awareness

In the realm of spiritual transformation, the questions we are willing to ask ourselves are more important than the answers we think we know. At

La práctica de analizar mi día con Dios se arraiga en las antiguas prácticas cristianas del examen de estado de conciencia (revisar el día pasado para percibir la presencia de Dios) y del examen de conciencia (notar mi respuesta, o falta de ella, a esa presencia).

Aprender a escuchar al cuerpo, a darle descanso y a respetarlo como un lugar en el que Dios nos hace conocer su presencia, se convierte entonces en una importante disciplina para el peregrino espiritual.

A good journey begins with knowing where we are and being willing to go somewhere else. RICHARD ROHR

Most people do not see things as they are; rather, they see things as they are. Richard Rohr

But times of solitude and silence are not times for judging. They are times for noticing — noticing what is true about us in a given moment and then being in God's presence with the things we've noticed.

The struggle is real because the danger is real. It is the danger of living the whole of our life as one long defense against the reality of our condition.

he yells, you run like the wind. That lad plays you like an old piano – and you know it.' 'But he's only four months old—' Edie nodded briskly.

know, when James was born, I knew in here that

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.

She sat back on her heels and nodded. The thought experiment she proposed was certainly odd, but her point was simple. Everything in the universe was constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives. That's what it means to be a time being, old Jiko told me, and then she snapped her crooked fingers again. And just like that, you die.

How difficult it is to see The things we love With all this shadow round us, This brief time we're here.

Is this what it sounds like, going deaf?

Growing up, I was utterly oblivious to the fact that Mom was teaching me all that. But I was instantly aware of her final lesson, which was hidden in her notes and leters. As I read them I began to understand that in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, Mom showed me that it is never too late to find out how to do it.

I got back into the car thinking how lucky I was to be aware of happiness. Most people don't recognize their own good fortune until it has departed. And then it is too late.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

I sometimes stood for long moments listening to some bird telling me of the strangeness of myself

And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil.

In heated rooms, he often felt the outlines of his body, the border between him and the external world, grow disturbingly fuzzy.

I must go there today - Tomorrow the plum blossoms Will scatter.

I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.