Quotes About Awareness

If you ask people to ease up on you because you're emotionally overloaded, don't look for a sympathetic response; but tell them you've got pain or some other physical symptom and they immediately become responsive and solicitous.

Hundreds of stories of after-death communication can be found in two books, Hello from Heaven!, by Bill and Judy Guggenheim, and Love beyond Life, by Patricia Romanowski and Joel Martin. Says Judy: "After-death communications—ADCs—are spiritual gifts, intended to reignite our spiritual awareness of who we are and why we're here, and our awareness that there is no death, and that we have a love for another that is eternal.

He is on a mission to rescue a people who are so utterly deceived most of them don't even want to be rescued.

Encounter weather whenever you can. Don't hide from it; experience it.

As Buechner says, we are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, "to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest.

But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.

always making sure I was present when anything was going on. I feared that if I missed any opportunity, the magic would come while I was not there and I would miss it forever.

The gift of presence is a rare and beautiful gift. To come - unguarded, undistracted - and be fully present, fully engaged with whoever we are with at that moment.

After I finish a phone call and before I start something else, I simply pause. When I pull into work in the morning and when I pull into my driveway in the evening, I pause.

My soul just can't do life at the speed of smartphones. But I was asking it to; everybody's asking theirs to.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

Receive it for the gift it is! Pause, and let the beauty minister to you. I receive this into my soul. Too often we just notice and go on, like a pedestrian who steps over a hundred-dollar bill lying on the sidewalk. Stop and pick it up! In these moments you open yourself and receive the beauty, the gift, the grace—receive it into your being. Let it bring to you God's love, his tenderness, his rich goodness.

Jesus, thank you that you are right here. You are with me, and you are in me.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.

If there is a lesson from the lives of the men John Kennedy depicts in this book, if there is a lesson from his life and from his death, it is that in this world of ours none of us can afford to be lookers-on, the critics standing on the sidelines.

The alienated audiences was one that was aware of the performance as an arbitrary construction of the real, of the difference between players and characters, and was therefore aware that the people and incidents on stage were there to perform social an ideological actions that could only be understood in terms of their relationship to the dominant ideology. Alienation produced a thinking, interrogative socially aware audience.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.

She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.