Quotes About Awareness

God must become an activity in our consciousness. JOEL S. GOLDSMITH

There are sounds to seasons.   There are sounds to places, and there are sounds to every time in one's life. ALISON WYRLEY BIRCH

Today, I deliberately practice open-mindedness. I cultivate a willingness to experience subtle realms.

attention is an act of connection

The act of making art exposes a society to itself. Art brings things to light. It illuminates us. It sheds light on our lingering darkness. It casts a beam into the heart of our own darkness and says, See?

put us in touch with our spiritual core. For others, it's a trip to a greenhouse. The point is that even the slightest attention to our impoverished areas can nurture them.

People are told to JUST LET GO. And they would, if they knew what they are holding on to.

pain is what it took to teach me to pay attention. In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate, and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me ... In the exact now, we are all, always, all right ... Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.

The reward for attention is always healing. It may begin as the healing of a particular pain—the lost lover, the sickly child, the shattered dream. But what is healed, finally, is the pain that underlies all pain: the pain that we are all, as Rilke phrases it, "unutterably alone.

Conectar nos coloca en un estado de consciencia y, desde la consciencia, podemos realizar cambios, o al menos intentarlo.

In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now.

The hunch, the instinct, the intuition gradually becomes a waking part of the mind. We come to rely upon it. The "still, small voice" becomes louder. We have formed a working partnership with God.

Be particularly alert to any suggestion that you have become selfish or different.

El arte de escuchar nos proporciona sanación, perspicacia y lucidez. Nos regala alegría y perspectiva. Por encima de todo, nos proporciona conexión.

El arte saca las cosas a la luz. Nos ilumina. Arroja luz sobre la oscuridad que hay en nosotros. Proyecta un rayo luminoso sobre el corazón de nuestras sombras y dice, «¿ves?».

It may be different for others, but pain is what it took to teach me to pay attention. In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me. Each moment, taken alone, was always bearable. In the exact now, we are all, always, all right.

En consecuencia puede que ni siquiera sepan que son artistas.

A mystery can be very simple: if I drive this road, not my usual road, what will I see? Changing a known route throws us into the now. We become refocused on the visible, visual world. Sight leads to insight.

Scraping a carrot, peeling an apple—these actions are quite literally food for thought.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. EDDIE CANTOR

Se medita para descubrir la propia identidad, el verdadero lugar que ocupamos en el universo

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.

we're all alive the day before we die ... but, how alive is another question.