Quotes About Awareness

I did not realize what a gift I had been given until it was too late, forever too late. Must life always be that way?

The man who has forgotten to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. Robert Louis Stevenson

Be aware: When we understand the structures of thought, we ask important questions implied by these structures.

People with intellectual humility (and they are rare) understand that there is far more that they will never know than they will ever know. They continually seek to learn more, to develop their intellectual abilities and expand their knowledge base, always with a healthy awareness of the limits of their knowledge.

Today many Christians are blind to the truth about the dangers of darkness and go about entertaining the demonic.

Oftentimes, God keeps his ways a secret, but when we have a grateful heart, God may open our eyes so we can see the joy we might have otherwise missed.

Even the most beautifully written, perfectly edited and well-designed books will fail if people aren't made aware of them!" ––Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications, on the importance of public relations and marketing.

The images swirled through her. She needed to bake. Cake. A layered chocolate cake. With vanilla buttercream frosting. The images were as clear as four-color photos from a coffee table book on baking. She could taste the vanilla, butter, and cream whipped into a sugar frosting as if she had spooned it into her mouth. The chocolate smelled so real that a chill of awareness ran along her skin, pooling in her fingertips. She itched to bake.

Sometimes I forget how critical God is to every single day of my life.

Pain itself, as a pure experience, is something different from the anxiety attached to it.

Justice Ginsburg objected that the context was in fact crucially different. She said that while termination and failure to hire or promote are public acts, easily ascertained, employees of most private companies have no way of knowing what their fellow workers are being paid.

Remembering place is significant, and that includes each visitor to a place, insect, plant, animal, or the passing shadow of a cloud in golden sunlight.

the important question is not whether all rocks are alive but whether specific humans relate appropriately (respectfully) with specific rocks

He wakes up and he is not a halfhearted man and he can't remember why he wakes this way, except that he hears the sound of birds and it is as if behind the human world something else is taking place. The

And then we heard the train from a long ways off. It was how sound traveled her, where sometimes a sound from miles away seemed close at hand, and at other times a person in the same room sounded far away, distant and remote.

A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.

Is your day the one that you really wanted or is it the day that turned up?

In other words, knowledge arrived at through rational thinking alone, lacking in awareness that engenders wisdom, is a dangerous thing, and the greater the knowledge, the more potentially destructive it becomes.

The poet W. B. Yeats wrote the famous line: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." I would suggest that the problem is not that the center cannot hold, but that humans are unaware of the center, unaware of their innermost essence, which is the spiritual dimension of life.

this "is-ness" just some philosophical abstraction? No. Just like the yogis of India, Parmenides says is-ness is consciousness. And everything that exists, even rocks and stones, participates in this living awareness.

take a deep breath. Keep your body fully in the present and your mind in the recent future. Don't let the past get in your way.

slowing down an activity may meet with greater success than doing it quickly.

Silence may be something unusual for her—and it could take time for her to adjust to the possibilities silence provides.

it's helpful to focus your child's attention on the present moment by deciding together on one thing you may particularly look for.