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Quotes About Awareness

Scream silently in your prayer; remember the pain of others.
~ Megan McKenna
When the range and depth of the suffering of others and what we do to one another no longer bothers us, nor moves us to remedy the situation and stop the pain, then we have lost a part of our own humanity, our own soul.
~ Megan McKenna
The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.
~ Megan McKenna
your ability to see is sometimes only as good as your willingness to go unseen.
~ Meghan Daum
It is in the vision of the physical eyes That no invisible or secret thing exists. But when the eye is turned toward the Light of God What thing could remain hidden under such Light?
~ Unknown
Waking Early Sunday Morning," I sat "like a dragon on/time's hoard.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
I got sick the way Hemingway says you go broke: "gradually and then suddenly.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily, La Rochefoucauld wrote.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
Live more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.
~ Meher Baba
There are no divisions as such, but there is an appearance of separateness because of ignorance. This means that everything is of ignorance and that every one is Ignorance personified.
~ Meher Baba
To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.
~ Meher Baba
But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.
~ Meher Baba
All those who experience the gross world as real are asleep. Only those who experience it as unreal can realise God and become awakened.
~ Meher Baba
A deer that knows all the hunting techniques of a lion will never fall prey to a lion!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A gazelle runs faster than us; cockroaches are remarkably tolerant of radiation; every being has some superiority; in remembering this, be very humble!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A mad who knows that he is mad is not fully mad!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Anyone who truly grasps the fact of limited time curses the patience blesses the hastiness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Appreciate water before you are thirsty! Appreciate all the good things before you need them!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Beautiful places are not for sleeping; they are for staying awake to watch the beauties!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Before claiming that your own country have the best mountain or have the most wonderful forest or have the prettiest temple, first travel around the world!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan