Quotes About Awareness

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

Life is a present but you must open it.

Try persuading the world not to cut its throat for half a decade or more...and it'll begin to dawn on you that even your behavior's part of its plan.

There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.

People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Presence is more than just being there.

When we ignore our radar we have to shut out its voice. Our minds become busy and distracted - we may compulsively perform mind-numbing activities such as computer games, gambling and gorging ourselves with sugary delights to the extent that they eat into our time in an unhealthy way, make us stay up late, or stop us from carrying out our essential tasks.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

The clock tells you everything and keeps you busy enough to forget that there could be another way of living your life.

Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I am keenly aware of all life's artifices. Getting dressed, wearing make-up, laughing, having fun-isn't all that just playing a role? Am I not more profound, carrying the burden of those twenty years when I 'wasn't alive', than all those who rushed around in vain during that time?

When we slow down to notice, the universe gives us the signs we need.

Embracing small personal changes can be the first step toward creating greater change in the world, and humanity at large.

Sitting in stillness helped me feel connected to something bigger than my own daily drama, and it gradually instilled in me a quiet confidence in my own voice and perspective.

I've found that sitting in silence and focusing the mind is the most meaningful and effective way to incubate intents, because it provides access to a deeper well of understanding, insight, and awareness. To

Her mind cleared slightly, but she still didn't seem to be quite all there.

I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do.

He suddenly seemed so much older, not just in years but in the things he knew and had experienced.

Thoughts can creep up on you, or they can hit harder than a wrecking ball.

I didn't want to blame her for the way the police treated me and every other nought I knew. I didn't want to hold her responsible for the way security guards and store detectives followed me around every time I entered a department store.

We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those who have voice.

the problem of the unthinkability of anything outside and beyond the legacies of sexual polarization that limit perception, and above all the invisibility of this problem.