Quotes About Awareness

never live as though God does not exist." Or, stated positively, "Always live in awareness of God's existence.

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things . . . as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value. PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Dr. Paul Tournier expresses this pattern in the language of psychiatry: "God blots out conscious guilt, but He brings to consciousness repressed guilt.

We need a renewed awareness of death, yes. But we need far more. We need a faith, in the midst of our groaning, that death is not the last word, but the next to last. What is mortal will be swallowed up by life.

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.

All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.

Knowing that you do not know is to ask humbly, instead of tell arrogantly. That is the beginning of wisdom.

how it is that men, even thoughtful men, can sound as if they never consider anything but always simply know.

But don't run too fast," my sister warned. "Remember he has to catch you.

It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world.

can't change what you don't acknowledge.

Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends' children... the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

There are things we see with our eyes, sitting high and looking out. And there are things we see with our hearts, sitting still and looking in.

The Japanese believe that sadness comes from an awareness of the fragility of life at the same time one is captivated by its transient beauty. The cherry blossoms. But that is a very superficial understanding of sadness, may I say. True sadness arises when we realize that the world around us is imperishable, and rather ugly.

Hold the question in your mind, but lightly, like it was something alive.

Here on this deck, millions of other universes exist unaware of one another... He raised his wings and spread them wide before folding them again. There, he said, I have just brushed ten million other worlds, and they knew nothing of it. We are close as a heartbeat, but we can never touch or see or hear these other worlds...

There is a great sadness in knowing that men of genius are not able to transcend the limits of patriarchy. Had I but known that the works I so cherished had been done by human beings, not gods, and that great women, including feminists, had also once lived and worked, I suspect I might have been able to break free sooner from a whole host of fatally misguided notions. What we don't know can hurt us.

Do we have a hand mirror?' I asked from the kitchen doorway. 'Never use one,' said Lester, examining the date on a carton of sour cream. 'Naturally, you're a male. What you see is what you've got,' I said resentfully. 'Huh?' said Lester.

Good, because I don't understand anything at all.

Will all this never end?" asked Mr. Hatford. "Why do I get the feeling that I don't even know half of all that's been going on around here?" "'Cause you don't, I guess," Wally mumbled.

Recovery from codependence is a lot like a growing up process - we must learn to do the things our dysfunctional parents did not teach us to do: appropriately esteem ourselves, set functional boundaries, be aware of and acknowledge our reality, take care of our adult needs and wants, and experience our reality moderately.