Quotes About Awareness

Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve through the doing.

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.

In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make sure that our police officers are getting the mental health help they need.

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.

Sometimes, the experiences that tell you what you don't want to do are as important as those that tell you what you do want to do.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didnt want to see my kids do the same thing

Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there.

How' is always more important that 'what.' See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

I said, "I just want to know you and then disappear." She said, "Knowing me does not mean dying.

if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be? Is today the day I die?

Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.

Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'

Communication always has a purpose. Before speaking, the first law is: you must know why you are talking. You must know what you are communicating for. What do you want?

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, 'Here, I guess, since this is where I am.'

Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didnt want to be oblivious to the obvious.

You've got muscles and you use them everywhere else in your body when you want it. Why not your face?

If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.