Quotes About Awareness

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

The less we allow ourselves to be touched by life's full array of experiences, the less life reaches out to touch us with the depth of its meaning.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

If you focus on the good things about them you'll miss them, but if you focus on the bad things you'll remember why you shouldn't be with them.

She had me in a trance, at the simple word of hello. Even though I'd never told her, she'd always known.

Thank God for your life today. For your health, your family, or your home. Many people don't have these things and are praying for what you take for granted.

If only for a second, stop and appreciate the fact that you're alive.

Learn to appreciate things before you end up losing them.

Thank you Lord for another beautiful day. For opening up my eyes & ears, to see and hear the goodness you have left here for us. Teach me more.

She'd heard they were gentle, even the bulls. And she was savvy about cattle. She knew how to judge their tempers and stay clear of them when necessary.

Part of being good with a rifle is knowing what I'm shooting at. Did you think I'd just start unloading bullets into the underbrush?

Look at the real reality beneath the sham realities of things and gadgets," Leonard always tells me. "Look through the eye in your heart. That's the meaning of Indian religion.

Once the basic principals of 'need to know' are understood, together with the resulting manipulation of information, it is easy to observe this process in action – indeed every day, via our media, we are led by the nose along the 'required' path and we generally go quietly, because we have been well trained.

Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman.

It is impossible to Name and Act against oppression if there are no Nameable oppressors.

We are aware that the gods of patriarchy are pale derivatives and reversals of ancient yet always Present Goddess(es). We suspect that phallocentric writers and artists who have even a glimmer of insight are sometimes made uncomfortable by their own state of deception. Those who have any awareness of the heinous crime of reversal which is patriarchy must be in a state of deep conflict and fear of...Her.

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

Ascente cha ores ri ve breazza." "Turn your ear to the wind," she interpreted. "Stand strong.

This world, it breathes you in … it knows you, and then it breathes you out again, shares you.

There is magic in everything, only you must watch for it. It does not come from spells or potions or the sky, nor by special delivery of the gods. It is all around you.