Quotes About Awareness

When we understand the source of evils, and are alive to their existence, they are already half conquered.

Truth is none the less true because it is undiscovered.

Whatv is this life, if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

Whatv is thisnlife, if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

The fundamental love that a man needs in his life, if he is to have steady spiritual ease is the love of place where he was a child, and first became aware of the light, and the objects which the light illumined ... It is the hurt child become man that seeks the wilderness, wherein to rebuild himself.

Hank, you need to be positive about things. Why don't you try looking at your cup as half full?" "Dad, I'm looking in my cup, and at this moment, I can't see any liquid whatsoever.

Do you know that one out of every five kids has learning challenges? I'm sure I had them, too, but when I was growing up, no one even knew there was such a thing.

He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320

Nothing has been discovered, nothing has been invented. We can only know that we know nothing. And that's the highest degree of human wisdom.

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there is nothing on earth more splendid and interesting than himself.

There was no deceiving himself: something terrible, new, and more important than anything before in his life, was taking place within him of which he alone was aware.

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but did not want to know.

Every man, knowing to the smallest detail all the complexity of the conditions surrounding him, involuntarily assumes that the complexity of these conditions and the difficulty of comprehending them are only his personal, accidental peculiarity, and never thinks that others are surrounded by the same complexity as he is.

If you feel that you are not free, look for the reason inside you.

Faith is neither hope nor trust, but a particular spiritual state. Faith is man's awareness that his position in the world obliges him to perform certain actions. A person acts according to his faith, not as the catechism says because he believes in things unseen as in things seen, nor because he wishes to achieve things hoped for, but simply because having defined his position in the world it is natural for him to act according to it.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself

To live in the needs of the day, find forgetfulness.

He had lived (without being aware of it) on those spiritual truths that he had sucked in with his mother's milk, but he had thought, not merely without recognition of these truths, but studiously ignoring them.

marveling at this boldness and ease in her presence, and not for one second losing sight of her, though he did not look at her. He felt as though the sun were coming near him.