Quotes About Awareness

I learned that if someone tells you to be on the safe side lots of times then after a while they do not need to say it. After a while you just say it to yourself in your head like, 'I had better not do that, just to be on the safe side.

She had this uncanny sense of seeing things the way they were instead of the way you'd want them to be, of knowing me better than I knew myself. She could sniff out the truth even if it hurt.

Details are important when a day is special to you. But the difficult thing is that quite often you do not know a day is special until long after it is over.

To her to know truly, was to be intimate. To be intimate was to know the person you love as well as you know your own self.

Intelligence is using what you KNOW, in the right way, in the right place, at the right moment and with the right intention.

What makes life worth living is what is happening right now. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, right now.

Thich Nhat Hanh writes that one of our biggest faults is to fail to celebrate not having a toothache. The idea goes something like this: We all know how painful and irritating it can be to have a toothache, and we all suffer when we do, but why is it we never take time to think how nice it is not to have a toothache?

How would our lives change if we knew what to listen for? What effect would it have if we learned how to listen for his voice in the midst of our dailiness, our everyday work and play? According to the witness of Scripture, God does have a call on our lives, a purpose, a plan, a message, and he does care about our moment-by-moment existence. This is an incredibly exciting prospect! And potentially a frightening one as well.

It will be like having an extreme close-up in high definition to examine each freckle, while failing to notice whether the person is even wearing pants.

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

dbeing drunk is awsome, until you feel everything again.

How do you know when you are too drunk to drive? When you swerve to miss a tree then realize it was your air-freshener.

Run every thought through the heart. The heart knows.

When the debilitating distractions and stressors are minimized, you become more transparent, and your deep desires fall through the clarity into your conscious mind.

Once you attune to a higher-frequency state, the heart acts like your truth meter.

featured an eight-year-old boy who saved his friend who was choking to death. When asked where he learned the Heimlich, he said, "It was on a poster on The Simpsons." True story.

You are the sky. Everything else–it's just the weather. PEMA CHÖDRÖN, BUDDHIST

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. JAMES JOYCE, AUTHOR

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.

Instead, the new snobbery is based on being 'knowing', and in displaying an awareness of the codes which are used to classify and differentiate between classes. It distinguishes those who are skilled in exercising judgement, in a knowing and sophisticated way, against those, whoever they may be, who are deemed unable to choose effectively.

And it's like that Zen saying: 'When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Peace is understanding, not quiet

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.