Quotes About Awareness

How then shall we live? Fully. Intentionally. Attentively. Lovingly.

The clergyman and writer William Sloane Coffin said that spirituality to him meant "living the ordinary life extraordinarily well." We wake up to an ordinary day. The sky is blue. Trees sway in the breeze and birds twitter. Everything is as usual. Our hearts beat; our lungs take in air. We talk to friends. We eat dinner. We brush our teeth. And finally, when we put our heads down on our favorite pillows, we think, "This was a good, very ordinary day.

In a talk he gave two hours before his death in 1968, the renowned Trappist monk Thomas Merton said, "The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another and all involved with one another.

The fact that metaphors can sleep and wake is both bad news and good news for speakers and writers who want to avoid mixed metaphors. The bad news is that when a metaphoric word or phrase is sleeping for us, we probably won't notice if we use the word or phrase in ways that are inconsistent with its source-domain meaning.

Time is a funny thing. It can take some people a whole lifetime before they realize they've been playing tug-of-war all by themselves.

I've found that you can't measure happiness the way you measure yards in a race. You just learn to recognize it when it arrives so you can enjoy it while it lasts.

Those who refuse to acknowledge the past are condemned to repeat it.

The golden moments ?n the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; The angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. —George Eliot

Stupid people rarely want to hear the truth.

Choosing is about assessing what has the best chance of achieving your goal based on some combination of what you know and what's unclear. Knowing yourself – your goals, your values, your needs – is a level of self-awareness that creates the most solid foundation possible for making choices.

I like people who listen. We're born with two ears, two eyes but just one mouth. This fellow uses them in the right ratio.

If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.

It's hard, to live in the present. Right this minute. We spend most of our time in the past. Or in the future…about half in each. But to live in the present! Hardly anybody can do it.

Men ziet niet veel, waar de duivel de kaars houdt. ~ Errki (Wie de wolf vreest)

Privacy,is what you shut your mouth about,Denial is what you shut your eyes against.

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power; and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.

There exists a solidarity among men as human beings that makes each co-responsible for every wrong and every injustice in the world, especially for crimes committed in his presence or with his knowledge. If I fail to do whatever I can to prevent them, I too am guilty.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.