Quotes About Awareness

In this sense every serious choice has a tragicomic dimension. For it is impossible to be a human being without choosing, and it is impossible to choose without value denials, and it is impossible to deny values without guilt. That is a very simple though, but it forms the core definition of guilt: an awareness of significant value loss for which I know myself to be responsible. Guilt is the self-knowing of moral loss.

While the memory of guilt is far from pleasant (like 'wormwood and gall'), it has the curative intent of restoring us into an awareness of the constancy of God's love, new every morning. God's mercy is not spent even with our worst misdeeds.

It enhances one's appreciation of a model, and often the use one can make of it, to be aware of applications outside one's own field. Recognition of the wide applicability of a model, or of a family of models, helps in recognizing that one is dealing with a very general or basic phenomenon, not something specialized or idiosyncratic or unique.

Rome fell because of inner weakness, either social or spiritual; or Rome fell because of outer pressure—the barbarian hordes. What we can say with confidence is that Rome fell gradually and that Romans for many decades scarcely noticed what was happening.

Jesus was no ivory-tower philosopher but a down-to-earth man who understood that much of the good of human life is to be found in taste, touch, smell, and the small attentions of one human being for another.

By the mid-seventeenth century, the visible image has assumed far greater reality than the invisible thought.

The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything.

Big Truth, once understood and assimilated, always modifies your intent, and invariably leads to personal change.

Fear is like mind-cancer; it is a disease of consciousness, a dysfunctional condition of ignorance trapped within a little picture.

So here hath been dawningAnother blue Day:Think wilt thou let itSlip useless away.

No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining.

Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.

Of all the acts of man, repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults . . . is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle)

Today So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away. Out of Eternity This new Day is born; Into Eternity, At night, will return. Behold it aforetime No eye ever did: So soon it forever From all eyes is hid. Here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.