Quotes About Awareness

The trees thinned, the roads grew wider, the number of lanes multiplied, the traffic thickened and slowed, the billboards proliferated. On one of the billboards was this message: you call him "the man upstairs." but he has a name.

Most people know more about their congressmen via smear campaigns than they know about their own neighbor via conversations, and a lot of people know more about Britney Spears via tabloids than they know about their own congressmen via voting booklets. Does anyone else see the problem here?

Open your eyes to the magic around you.

Me, I say too much optimism will get you killed.

She could sense them all around her now, their pain, their hunger, their need,

To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

O, dreadful is the check -- intense the agony When the ear begins to hear and the eye begins to see; When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again, The soul to feel the flesh and the flesh to feel the chain.

I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.

Thoughts create our pain. Byron

All there is is now...

Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off somewhere else! . . . just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are. —Kabir (mystic poet, 1440–1518)

When you're growing up, it takes a long time for you to realize that there's something different about you. On one level, you know there's something strange, but on another, yourself is the only thing you ever knew.

Ironically, breast cancer gets so much attention partly because so many women survive it and become advocates, producing and participating in publicity-grabbing events such as the annual Race for the Cure.

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.

Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.

He remarked that thinking often spoils everything and that evil usually begins with our thoughts.

The Presence of God is an applying of our spirit to GOD, or a realization of GOD as present, which is borne home to us either by the imagination or by the understanding.

He had noticed a tree stripped of its leaves. He realized that in a little while the leaves would return, and the flowers and fruit would appear.

Shun death, is my advice.

Straight Americans need an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.

I am a writer, I have no prescription. I observe, I observe.

He who grows smaller and smaller in God's grand scheme of things, until he is invisible to all but himself.

This is what he was good at, he realized. This is what he did. He placed himself in the world, and the world drew his thoughts outside himself, where they multiplied and spiraled and led him in silent, thrilling flights. And as he expanded into the world, he expanded inside. At these moments an endlessness beyond thought opened inside him. Outside, his mind was whizzing through things, but inside, he was silent, still; sometimes, he knew he was not even breathing.

The highest form of discipline is living in the moment.