Quotes About Awareness

Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast" went the old saying. In night patrolling, stealth was everything.

But we can note that, however the debates turn out with regard to any given claim concerning animal behavior, it is clear that facile attempts to maintain that all human beings are exclusively in possession of some particular trait or set of traits that nonhuman animals lack (language, self- consciousness, tool use, awareness of death, or some other capacity) are becoming ever less tenable.

Horror is the awakening of repressed knowledge, something that you have known all along but kept at the periphery of awareness so that life can go on.

When I hear people fondly recalling their past, I hear Death sharpening his knives.

Up until this point, we have been observing the impermanent, unsatisfactory, or selfless nature of each object as it arose to consciousness.

We must also cultivate courageous energy: the commitment to remain present with whatever arises to consciousness, without grasping or resisting anything that comes to the fore of the mind.

men should not be sexing their women in the missionary position because they are facing away from the sky. Instead of looking down, men are to look up. To the vastness of Father Sky

As Rabbi Heschel teaches, humanity will be saved not by more information, but by more appreciation.

Only art as meditation reminds people so that they will never forget that the most beautiful thing a potter produces is...the potter.

None so blind as those that will not see.

for those that would be kept from any sin must be careful to avoid all temptations to it, and every thing that looks towards it or leads to it.

He will come quickly; let this word be always sounding in our ear

In a day of prosperity we are in great danger of forgetting God, our dependence upon him, our need of him, and our obligations to him. When

Guilty consciences are apt to take good providences in a bad sense

Those who have their eyes opened, and have some understanding in the things of God, have need to be more and more enlightened, and to have their knowledge more clear, and distinct, and experimental.

Not every person with their eyes closed is asleep, and not every person with their eyes open can see.

The hardest war to win is one you don't even realize you are fighting, and the hardest enemy to defeat is the one you don't even know exists. Every day you are at war with resistance.

So much of modern culture promotes a numbing unconsciousness rather than the vibrant consciousness that God wants us to live in each moment.

In every moment of every day, resistance is there, waiting to pounce. The hardest war to win is one you don't even realize you are fighting, and the hardest enemy to defeat is the one you don't even know exists. Every day you are at war with resistance.

In every moment of every day, resistance is there, waiting to pounce. The hardest war to win is one you don't even realize you are fighting, and the hardest enemy to defeat is the one you don't even know exists. Every day you are at war with resistance. Make no mistake, resistance is your enemy. It will not quietly go away and leave you alone. You have to slay it like a dragon, and you have to slay it anew each day.

Things that we cannot name tend to build in mystery and become dangerous. Simply naming, defining, and learning to recognize resistance in the moments of our days causes it to lose most of its power over us. It is no longer a mystery because we have named it.

The lesson I learned was that someone can look perfectly fine, but you never know what is going on inside—and everyone has something going on inside.

Holy Moments are going to make you insanely happy.

From time to time it is good for us all to learn to listen again. Listen to those you love. Listen to your body. Listen to your conscience and soul. Listen to God.