Quotes About Awareness

People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment." ? Myles Munroe, Understanding Your Poten

Words are an extension of our thoughts, but we are our thoughts. Proverbs 23:7 says, "As [a man] thinks in his heart, so is he" (nkjv). God desires not to talk to you, but to "think" to you. This is what Jesus meant when He said, "I do what I see My Father doing" (John 5:19). The text implies, "I do what I mentally see My Father thinking.

We should never allow our lives to become so hurried or myopic that we ignore the value of the resources around us-especially the people.

By day we may deal with the airy superstructure of our emotions, but, at three in the morning, we get down to the foundation. At night the soul claims the right to stand face to face with itself, as before some mirror placed in a pitiless light and, with unsparing eyes, seek the truth.

Listen with your eyes because here you cannot decipher what is said out of the effort of mouths.

She was not listening at the level of language but beneath it, in the deep recesses of the imagination.

Yes, I thought, now I see the earth as it really is; never again will I see things as I saw them yesterday or the day before.

Translate yourself to spirit; Be present on your journey. Keep to the trees and waters. Be the singing of the soil.

When the women went to the tomb they met someone else and in the half light they thought it was Jesus himself. Answer: they would have noticed soon enough.

Unless we are constantly aware, in reading the gospels, that they are telling the Jesus story in such a way as to bring out the Israel story, we will never hear their proper harmony.

Anyone who has worked within biblical scholarship knows, or ought to know, that we biblical scholars come to the text with just as many interpretative strategies and expectations as anyone else, and that integrity consists not of having no presuppositions but of being aware of what one's presuppositions are and of the obligation to listen to and interact with those who have different ones.

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which boils down in popular discourse to saying that the very act of observing things changes the things you observe, works just as well, worryingly, when you look in the mirror.

We cannot and must not soften the blow; we cannot and must not pretend that evil isn't that bad after all.

doing. Was doing now. So Jesus seems to have been standing at the threshold

There are many parts of the world we can't do anything about except pray. But there is one part of the world, one part of physical reality, that we can do something about, and that is the creature each of us calls 'myself.' Personal holiness and global holiness belong together. Those who wake up to the one may well find themselves called to wake up to the other as well.

Porque todo es vacuidad, todo puede ser.

The pacification of all cognitive grasping and the pacification of conceptual proliferation are peace.

17. Error does not develop In one who is in error. Error does not develop In one who is not in error. 18. Error does not develop In one in whom error is arising. In whom does error develop? Examine this on your own!

To know and no to do is not to know.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

Always remember your days are blessed. You may know how to profit from them or you may not, but they are blessed.

Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white's front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.

But the transport of a novel, the false awareness of being within another time, place and life that was the pleasure of reading, for her, was not possible. She was in another time, place, consciousness; it pressed in upon her and filled her as someone's breath fills a balloon's shape. She was already not what she was. No fiction could compete with what she was finding she did not know, could not have imagined or discovered through imagination.

To discover the exact location of a 'thing' is a simple matter of factual research. To discover the exact location of a person: where to locate the self?