Quotes About Awareness

On the surface it appears that all we're talking about is food and the amount we consume. In reality, there is a more serious issue at the root of gluttony. Overstuffing ourselves with food or drinking until we get drunk or

prudent man or woman understands that all of life is connected. He is aware of the cause-and-effect relationship between what he chooses today and what he experiences tomorrow . .

Any place where we have hardened our hearts or refused to let truth touch and transform that part of us, there will be confusion.

I was so caught up in the rush of superficial things in my world that I missed hearing the cries for help in someone else's world.

The mind feasts on what it focuses on.

Yes, God, there are some who seek You today! I understand it is possible to experience You; therefore, I want that more than anything else. I will seek to see You, hear You, know You, and follow hard after You in every part of my day.

If my Bible is collecting dust and my conscience is being hushed, then my heart is in danger of being crushed.

your phone randomly sends those memory movies of what happened on this same day four years ago, it stops you from breathing.

I'm always asking God for direction, but I'll miss it if I constantly ignore His instruction. (11)

God is always at work. He is a present, loving Father, aware of our deepest hurts and our even deeper needs.

We consume what we think about. And what we think about can consume us if we're not careful.

Imagine the difference this could make with not setting into motion what needs to remain still.

We don't think about fixing things until we realize they are broken.

forget simple things like where we put our car keys or that one crucial ingredient for dinner when we run into the grocery store. But even more disturbing, we forget God. We say with our mouths that we are trusting and relying on God, but are we really? A quick check to see

What numbs us imprisons us.

We will live reactive lives instead of proactive.

Enlightened literally means "to shed light upon.

We must be aware that desperation breeds degradation. In other words, when what is lacking in life goes from being an annoyance to an anxiety we run the risk of compromising in ways we never thought we would.

As you breathe, say to yourself: Breathing in, I am aware of breathing in. Breathing out, I am aware of breathing out.

Durant les longues nuits et les longues journées passées sous l'effet de la cocaïne dans la chambre de Yag, il me vint à l'esprit que ce qui importe à l'homme ce ne sont pas les événements survenus dans sa vie, mais seulement les répercussions de ces événements dans sa conscience.... ...L'homme vit donc non des événements du monde qui l'entoure mais des reflets de ces événements dans sa conscience.

In the silence, whether we listen to the creation around us, the words of revelation, or the deepest stirrings of our own hearts, we begin to perceive another voice, one that is too often lost in the static of life. It is no use saying: "Speak, Lord, your servant wants to hear," if We never risk the silence to listen. 48

Anxiety can alert us to the fact that we are no longer in the present moment. Anxiety robs us of our present moment experience and we experience it only as we focus on past events that caused us worry, and future events.

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavor. We are as a nation taste-blind.

Perception of a state is not the state.