Quotes About Awareness

The key to living a productive Christian life is not waking up every day trying to be loved by God, but waking up in the awareness that you are already his beloved

the greatest journeys of our lives begin so simply that we don't even know we've embarked on them until we're well down the road looking back.

Mother Teresa was once asked by a journalist why she does what she does, that is, how she is able to take the dying poor from the streets of Calcutta, nurse and love them. Her response reflected her deep self-knowledge: "I realized a long time ago that I had a Hitler within me."2 This realization became the basis of her self-transcendence and of her unique holiness.

The truth may hurt, but it is never so agonizing as the dagger of lies we tell ourselves.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

If you are not familiar with millibars, 1020 is high; 1000 is low; and what really matters is direction and speed of change.

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn't one.

Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role.

As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.

THIS which is seeking is THAT which is sought, and THAT which is sought is THIS which is seeking.

We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.

It is only the artificial ego that suffers. The man who has transcended his false "me" no longer identifies himself with his suffering.

Three things it is best to avoid a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise.

What is today? She'd lost track over the last few days. Pixii shrugged. First day after firing the kiln.

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer.

Ask the world to reveal its quietude not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.

The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.