Quotes About Awareness

Little faith sees God's hand in great things. Established faith sees God's hand in little things.

Attention must be paid' is the cardinal rule of design discipline, for the designer is above all someone who pays attention to the situation at hand.

Unlocking individual change starts and ends with the mental maps people carry in their heads-how they see the organization and their jobs.

Some say that society is divided into those who have and those who have not but wished they had. I believe a more fundamental division is between those who know and those who do not know and have no idea they do not know.

And to this day I wish I had lingered a week or so.... But we stupid mortals, or most of us, are always in haste to reach somewhere else, forgetting that the zest is in the journey and not in the destination.

I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.

Play the game, but don't believe in it – that much you owe yourself … Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate.

I saw with open eyes Singing birds sweet Sold in the shops For people to eat, Sold in the shops of Stupidity Street. I saw in vision The worm in the wheat, And in the shops nothing For people to eat; Nothing for sale in Stupidity Street.

Fear flushes clogged pores of perception.

Such painful awareness of one's sin easily tempts one to despair, discouragement, and deep "depression"; thinking reform is hopeless, one may "surrender irrevocably to the world." Bernard calls this despair the greatest evil of all, and insists that God's mercy is always available whenever a sinner turns to Him.

Teresa of Avila makes the point that it isn't whether the prayers are memorized or not or said out loud or not that determines their value, but whether we pay attention to what we're saying and to whom we're speaking.

Which of us can live uprightly and perfectly even for one hour, an hour free from fruitless talk and careless work?17

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

Our history deserves honesty and our citizens need it. Without understanding who we really were, we'll never quite grasp who we have become, leaving us prey to demagogues and despicable entertainments.

A Christian man ponders eternity for decades, only to find it's fifteen minutes long.

severe depression as well as depersonalization disorder, which is to say he no longer felt in control of his feelings, emotions, or behaviors. He was aware of his actions, but felt he was watching them from a third-person perspective. I recommended he take corrective action to reduce the depression and anxiety he was experiencing.

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.