Quotes About Awareness

It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment then for what it was; I suppose we never do.

It didn't occur to me then, though it certainly does now, that it was years since I'd roused myself from my stupor of misery and self-absorption; between anomie and trance, inertia and parenthesis and gnawing my own heart out, there were a lot of small, easy, everyday kindnesses I'd missed out on; and even the word kindness was like rising from unconsciousness into some hospital awareness of voices, and people, from a stream of digitized machines.

I have come to realize that while for years I might have imagined myself to be somewhere else, in reality I have been there all the time:

I was wide awake, and yet part of me was so glassed-off and numb I was practically in a coma.

I knew it deeply and irrationally like knowledge in a dream.

even if we're not always so glad to be here, it's our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open.

as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment then for what it was; I suppose we never do.

Are you tired?" he said, looking at me closely. Was I? I was wide awake, and yet part of me was so glassed-off and numb I was practically in a coma. "If you'd rather have company? Perhaps if I build a fire in the other room? Tell me what you want." At this question, I felt a sharp rush of despair—for as bad as I felt there was nothing he could do for me, and from his face, I realized he knew that, too.

The days were so much alike I barely noticed the months pass.

Have you ever stopped to think in your own personal life why God permits certain people to cross your path? Do you wish that you had never met certain people? Are there people whom you would call your enemies? Someone may have caused you sorrow, but it is all for His purpose. God has permitted all that for a particular purpose. Learn to recognize the hand of God in your life.

El que no sabe llevar su contabilidad Por espacio de tres mil años Se queda como un ignorante en la oscuridad Y sólo vive al día.

Communicate. Listen to your customers, associates and competitors.

See and be seen. Get out of your office, walk around, make yourself visible and accessible.

I try not to watch the news. Too depressing.

schoolchildren. Plus he has erectile dysfunction.

There's a difference between seeking the truth and being willfully ignorant,

The older names of flowers involved a similar degree of awareness; we might guess at the qualities of plants called hound's piss and goodnight-at-noon, but it took real intimacy to name a flower courtship-and-matrimony: its sweet scent fades after picking.

Hell is truth known too late.

Another real danger to young men is thoughtlessness and lack of consideration. Lack of thought is one simple reason why thousands of souls are cast away forever. Men will not consider,-will not look forward,-will not look around them,-will not reflect on the end of their present course, and the sure consequences of their present ways,-and awake at last to find they are damned for lack of thinking.

Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

The man who is content to sit ignorantly by his own fireside, wrapped up in his own private affairs, and has no public eye for what is going on in the Church and the world, is a miserable patriot, and a poor style of Christian. Next to our Bibles and our own hearts, our Lord would have us study our own times.

The very animals whose smell is most offensive to us have no idea that they are offensive, and are not offensive to one another.

Cada nuevo acto de pecado disminuye el temor y el remordimiento, endurece nuestro corazón, insensibiliza nuestra conciencia e incrementa nuestras inclinaciones perversas.

Surely none are so mad as those who are content to live unprepared to die.