Quotes About Awareness

Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

There is no need to look for God here or there. He is no farther away than the door of your own heart.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me...

You should be like those who at all times watch and wait for their Lord' (Luke 12:36). Truly, such vigilant people are alert and on the watch for their Lord for whom they wait; they look to see if he is not by chance concealed in what befalls them, however strange it may be to them.

And so I tell you that we should learn to see God in all gifts and works, neither resting content with anything nor becoming attached to anything. For us there can be no attachment to a particular manner of behaviour in this life, nor has this ever been right, however successful we may have been.

God is equally near to everything and every place and is equally ready to give himself, so far as in him lies, and therefore a person shall know him aright who knows how to see him the same, under all circumstances.

If my eye is to discern colour, it must itself be free from all colour.

Master Shunryu Suzuki in his classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.

Does any Watcher ever know that he is suddenly watching the Slayer until that moment is announced to him?

Slowness seems to be a key element in living a rich life. I don't mean rich in the sense of money. I mean rich in the ability to feel things as they're happening, to not constantly be thinking of the next thing.

They where like so many of the adults around us, content to pretend that all was well....but we knew better

You know what? You didn't do anything wrong. I did. It's this dumb thing I do. I look into things and see more than I'm supposed to.

One day" came. Because finally I understood.

It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.

You can't go around feeling too much.

I need to feel the earth beneath my feet, between my toes—the splinters, the bindi-eyes, the burning sensation of hot dirt, the sting of cuts, the twigs, the bites, the heat, the discomfort, the everything. I need desperately to feel it all, so when something wonderful happens, the contrast will be so massive that I will bottle the impact and keep it for the rest of my life.

I was wrong, I thought to myself. I honestly believed it. Not because Sister Louise told me or because she made me believe I was. I knew deep down that I was wrong and I think that my emancipation began at that moment.

When one is silent, those around speak even more, my lord.

Yes, I did," he says casually. "In the first minute I met them. Then in the second minute, I decided I wasn't going to be into dudes who treat others like crap only because they can. And then in the third, I actually stopped noticing they were around. I'm easily bored around stupid people.

My father believed in signs,' she says. 'Not that they change events or predict what's going to happen. It's more about what we do when we come across one.

He's never asked about her depression in the past, just knew it was there like a big black blob over her head. In Year Eleven they thought it was a one-off because her mother had been sick, but he had seen it once or twice again. Francesca knew the signs and he could tell she fought it with everything she had inside of her.

In an instant he forgot Joe's poem about Japan except the part about 'you are the bell, and I am the tongue of the bell, ringing you,' and a new sound entered his life, like when he was a kid and he first heard the sound of horses clip-clopping and he asked his mother in wonder, "What's that sound, because I've never heard it before?

Y hay momentos en los que tu entera conciencia está llena con el conocimiento de que algo maravilloso va a suceder.