Quotes About Awareness

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.

It often struck Nina that women who seemed capable of only limited mental tasks in most situations could retain information regarding other peoples weight for years, sometimes decades. Unlike genuine idiots savants, they couldn't tell you that December 13, 1972 had fallen on a Wednesday. But they could often tell you, within a pound or two, how much you'd weighed that week.

The art of pleasing is to know what people want even before they want it.

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

I should have known this would happen. But I got happy, and soft. I forgot that secrets never keep.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

In a world where so many speak and don't hear, she is somebody who listens with her mind and hears with her heart.

God often speaks loudest when we're quietest.

Have you ever noticed that when you pray, coincidences happen? And when you don't, they don't.

God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time, but it's up to us to see and seize those opportunities that are all around us all the time.

The paradigm shift happens when we come to terms with the fact that the world doesn't revolve around us.

Our lives are not just measured in minutes. They are measured in moments—moments when the minutes stand still.

Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.

Prayer turns us into first-class noticers. It helps us see what God wants us to notice. The more you pray, the more you notice; the less you pray, the less you notice. It's as simple as that. Let me explain how

It's not enough to exercise spiritual gifts; one must exercise them with a measure of emotional intelligence, or they can actually do more emotional harm than good.

Prayer is priming. Prayer puts us in a spiritual frame of mind. Prayer helps us see and seize the God-ordained opportunities that are all around us all the time.

La oración no es algo que tengamos que hacer con los ojos cerrados; nosotros oramos con los ojos bien abiertos. La oración no es una serie de palabras que comienza con un «Amado Jesús» y termina con un «Amén».

G. K. Chesterton said that his goal in life was to take nothing for granted—not a sunrise, not a smile, not a flower, nothing. That is a truly wonderful approach to life. Don't take anything for granted. Truly appreciate every minute that you have to live. My near-death experience has helped me be better at that. If I hadn't almost died, I wouldn't have figured out how to live.

time is measured in minutes, while life is measured in moments.

It's no coincidence that being watchful and prayerful are coupled by the apostle Paul in his letter to the Colossians: "Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful." The word watchful is a throwback to the ancient watchmen whose job it was to sit on the city walls and scan the horizon for attacking armies or trading caravans. They saw sooner and further than anyone else. Prayer opens our spiritual eyes so we see sooner and further.

Prayer creates divine opportunities. But prayer also sanctifies the reticular activating system and enables you to see the God-ordained opportunities that are all around you all the time.

Self-consciousness isn't just A curse. It is part of THE curse.

Prayer is priming. Prayer puts us in a spiritual frame of mind. Prayer helps us see and seize the God-ordained opportunities that are all