Quotes About Awareness

I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a shit. What's worse is that you're more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night.

Purpose transcends personality. It is important for supportive ministers to serve based on their awareness of God's purpose. His purpose is foundational and will remain steady when personality conflicts and other difficulties arise.... Challenges come to all types of relationships. Only the relationships that are built on a strong foundation will survive and thrive.

Eva, I recognize your confusion. It is not always easy to understand another's spirit, especially if you do not know where to look" -Rovender

Don't you know me? Am I not your own self?

So, Eva Nine, you must sometimes disregard what someone is saying and focus instead on what they are doing. Watch and observe. That is when one reveals his true self.

A full stomach allows the brain to be hungry for common sense.

If all you see is what you see, you will never see all that there is to be seen. Since

I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.

She was a young woman with that pink complexion which made Jimmy Chee wonder why the white men called Indians redskins.

Rather quickly, Officer Gorman had proved he was the sort of man who – as Leaphorn's grandmother would have said – counted the grass and didn't see the grazing.

even sure I heard the music. Maybe you

Memorize places," his uncle had told him. "Settle your eyes on a place and learn it. See it under the snow, and when first grass is growing, and as the rain falls on it. Feel it and smell it, walk on it, touch the stones, and it will be with you forever. When you are far away, you can call it back. When you need it, it is there, in your mind.

One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

There are always distractions if you allow them.

Someone enjoying a higher level of Consciousness understands more, is not bound by past patterns of thinking and behavior, and thus has more freedom of choice and action.

I needed to know that Death was here, in the room, and that I was too fast, too young, and too smart for him.

Slowly, I felt my mood begin to brighten. It was unperceivable at first, but as I noticed a pleasant sensation starting in the base of my skull, sending shivers of pleasure throughout my body, I

Life is not a task.

In our rush to find a better situation in time, we trample over the flower of beingness that presents itself in every moment.

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.

If it would destroy [a 12-year-old boy] to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?

The range of what we think and do Is limited by what we fail to notice And because we fail to notice That we fail to notice There is little we can do To change Until we notice How failing to notice Shapes our thoughts and deeds.

We are already the most overinformed, underreflective people in the history of civilization," argue Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey