Quotes About Awareness

But living amid so many words, I overestimated their power and breadth. The world does not turn on words alone; it only seems to if the eye and mind are saturated with them.

Reading teaches us receptivity....It teaches us to receive, in stillness and attentiveness, a voice possessed temporarily, on loan....And as we grow accustomed to receiving books in stillness and attentiveness, so we can grow to receive the world, also possessed temporarily.

I choose the irrational from a rational position. I'm positioning myself on Undo, undo even undoing. Un-think, because routines dull the mind, and you don't see what's in front of you. Familiarity breeds contempt, and also lack of in-sight and out-sight.

Before 1802, cirrus, cumulus, and altostratus clouds hadn't been given names. Untitled before 1802, the shapes were present in the sky, ethereal or ephemeral, presumably since the big bang, but un-designated, until they needed to be. Why then? The world hasn't been fully seen, until it is named.

In the pursuit of more we overlook the fullness and completeness that are already within us waiting to be discovered.

How dangerous it is when our souls are gasping for God but we're too distracted flirting with the world to notice.

It is beautiful when the Master chisels. God doesn't allow the unglued moments of our lives to happen so we'll label ourselves and stay stuck. He allows the unglued moments to make us aware of the chiseling that needs to be done.

As Ravi Zacharias said, "Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay.

Weak moments don't make weak faith. Weak moments make us even more aware of our need to press in to faith.

People aren't thinking about us nearly as much as we might think they are.

We want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention.

When we seek God, we see God.

Humility opens the ears of opportunity.

We can't live in an alternate reality and expect what's right in front of us to get better.

What we look for is what we will see, what we see determines our perspective, and our perspective determines our reality.

Numb souls are never growing souls.

Pain is the sensation that indicates a transformation is needed.

Just that morning I'd been praying and asking God to show Himself to me. I asked the God of the universe to intersect my life with His revelation, then got up from my prayers and forgot to look. Forgot to seek Him. Forgot to keep my heart in tune with His voice and His invitation.

And we don't allow their choices to harm us and start drawing our heart into places of compromise, devastation, or deception. Again, we all need grace when we mess up. But we also need the awareness that there is a difference between an occasional slip in behavior and an ongoing pattern of behavior.

The short time we actually focus on today's journey is often wasted on complaining, grumbling, wishing to be in a different place, or simply and mindlessly going through the motions of life.

Some will live their whole lives missing the chance to see all the good God has placed around them just for them. Partly because the hard stuff has demanded so much of their attention. And the seeming permanence of some of the heartbreak has stolen their affection for life.

The less we feel we need to address pride, the more it has already blinded us.

It's Good to Ask the "What" Questions but Less Helpful to Ask "Why

You better believe when I walk into a conference now, I look for someone sitting alone and make sure she knows she is noticed. When I ease the loneliness ache in others it is beautifully eased in me.