Quotes About Awareness

The ability to observe, and the ability to see the little things that seem trivial at first, may become amazingly important and meaningful.

Everything becomes more meaningful to him who watches and listens without too much thought to the value of his time. One

It is the average (or, if you like, the consensus) of the local characteristics which enables him to sense the "grain" of the country, to plan his detours to find his way to his goal. First

Everything becomes more meaningful to him who watches and listens without too much thought to the value of his time.

life is trying to teach us one thing: to see the Eck, the Holy Spirit, in the eyes of all we meet

Heaven isn't a place, it's a state of consciousness.

What is spiritual freedom? Spiritual freedom is growing into a state of more godliness. Becoming more aware of the presence of God. How do you do this? By becoming aware of the lessons behind your everyday experiences. This is how you grow into a loving awareness of the presence of God. Most people live under the hand of

We not only have today; we have all the yesterdays we are capable of remembering and all the tomorrows we can envision.

Listen. You know what it's like when you're in a room with the light on and then suddenly the light goes out? I'll show you. It's like this." He turns out the light. BLACKOUT

The reality of living was never greater than when you held death clutched tightly in your hands.

Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.

I'm a traditional Jew, and I observe the biblical dietary laws. … I suspect most of you assume I go around all day saying to myself, 'Boy, would I love to eat pork chops, but that mean old God won't let me.' Not so. The fact … is, I go around all day saying, 'Isn't it incredible? There are five billion people on this planet and God cares what I have for lunch [and] what kind of language I use.

Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let that happen. If anything, I thought more of them for wanting to face up to what they had done and for trying to change.)

Religion is not primarily a set of beliefs, a collection of prayers, or a series of rituals. Religion is first and foremost a way of seeing. It can't change the facts about the world we live in, but it can change the way we see those facts, and that in itself can often make a real difference.

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

Then, as now, white America was largely indifferent to even the most shocking crimes, as long as they were restricted to the black community.

Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement.

to be a Muslim is to be an insomniac.

Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself?

O, that's what troubles me, papa. You want me to live so happy, and never to have any pain,—never suffer anything,—not even hear a sad story, when other poor creatures have nothing but pain and sorrow, all their lives,—it seems selfish. I ought to know such things, I ought to feel about them!

Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear. What brother-man and brother-Christian must suffer, cannot be told us, even in our secret chamber, it so harrows the soul! And yet, oh my country! these things are done under the shadow of thy laws! O, Christ! thy church sees them, almost in silence!

She didn't realise it, for a long time, and it wasn't until they were having dinner one evening that he said something that she found funny and she looked at him and thought, Yes. I know you. I know you

We need to listen carefully to the wisdom of our symptoms and to try to decode their meaning, because some of us have learned to settle, to fall silent; to deny that unfair circumstances exist or matter, and then to call our compromises "life." But our bodies, our deeper unconscious selves, remain harder to fool.

Nothing, but nothing, will block the awareness of anger so effectively as guilt and self-doubt. Our society cultivates guilt feelings in women such that many of us still feel guilty if we are anything less than an emotional service station to others.