Quotes About Awareness

The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.

S?uchaj, jak si? czas zbli?a, i daj mu nadej??.

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure.

Watching the moon at dawn, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.

The purpose of meditation is not so much changing what we see as changing the way we see it.

Time is precious, but we squander it thoughtlessly

The freedom to talk with God and of God is being opened by God's joy. It cannot be forced. For true awareness cannot be coercive; it does not come about by either authoritarian pressure or the force of logic. It presupposes liberty. Being aware of God is an art and--if the term may be permitted--a noble game.

But we cannot make whatever encompasses us an object without moving out of it. We do not see the eyes we see with. We cannot perceive the place where we are standing unless we leave it.

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

Als kind had je dat vaak. Je werd 's morgens wakker en de muren van je kamer stonden verkeerd om je heen. In gedachten moest je de kamer een slag draaien zodat alles weer klopte en je op kon staan, de deur door, de dag in.

Om iets te zien moet je eerst iets kunnen herkennen. Zonder herinnering kun je alleen maar kijken. Dan glijd de wereld spoorloos door je heen.

Toen ik aan hun sterfbed zat, zag ik dat de ziel bestond. Tijdens hun leven had ik haar nooit gezien, maar toen ze dood waren, zag ik dat er iets verdwenen was. Ziel. Iets dat zich alleen kenbaar maakt door afwezigheid.

Like other people, anthropologists may see only what they want to see, even when what they want to see is nothing.

How conscience tells us that we ought to be fair, nobody knows. This we can say: we don't know it just from being told, we don't know it from the five senses, and we don't know it by inference from prior knowledge. We just know it. The knowledge is "underived.

Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

The problem was not that they failed to find these principles written upon their hearts, but that they could not bring themselves to attend closely to the inscription.

People never notice anything.

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.

Never forget that you must die; that death will come sooner than you expect... God has written the letters of death upon your hands. In the inside of your hands you will see the letters M.M. It means "Memento Mori" — remember you must die.

At the very root of the modern liberal movement is the loss of the consciousness of sin.

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.