Quotes About Awareness

When you sit at the back of a room you can keep a check on everything.

I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.

Can I ever know you Or you know me?

Oh I must pass nothing by Without loving it much, The raindrop try with my lips, The grass with my touch; For how can I be sure I shall see again The world on the first of May Shining after the rain?

I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.

The annoying part of wanting to know everything about everything is that it somehow always results in only knowing something about something

writes Madeleine L'Engle, "in kairos we are completely un-self-conscious and yet paradoxically far more real than we can ever be when we are constantly checking our watches for chronological time."10

The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is—not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.

from a Wesleyan perspective, we can easily see how the imagination is one of the ways the Holy Spirit works preveniently in our lives—before we're even aware of God's presence.

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

every story - love or war - is a story about looking left when we should have been looking right.

It is the story that lies around the edges of the photographs, or at the end of newspaper account. It's about the lies we tell others to protect them, and about the lies we tell ourselves in order not to acknowledge what we can't bear: that we are alive, for instance, and eating lunch, while bombs are falling, and refugees are crammed into camps, and the news comes toward us every hour of the day. And what, in the end, do we do?

Sand was dribbling out of the bag of her attention, faster and faster.

Important moments like this are time to reflect. To remind us, sometimes, that it's not only important what you wear, but it's also important to be aware.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

Every time I use an app, part of my brain dies! We'll get to the point where we go to bed and wonder: 'Did I have a thought today?' You'll have to go to your 'Thought' app!

Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.

Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.

When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is

We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?