Quotes About Awareness

Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

You can be on the right track and still get run over if you're not moving.

Truth is an acquired taste.

Absorption in ease and entertainment is a sure sign of dissipation and decline.

The birth of new knowledge begins with an admission of old ignorance.

What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.

If you're going down the wrong path, speeding up isn't going to help.

Only a fool can't be fooled.

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as arent afraid of truth.

You cant change what you dont understand.

We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.

Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?

You are so intent that you believe only what you believe that you believe, that you remain utterly blind to what you really believe without believing that you believe it.

Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.

El amor, a quien pintan ciego, es vidente y perspicaz porque el amante ve cosas que el indiferente no ve y por eso ama

Nuestra vida es, en todo instante y antes que nada, conciencia de lo que nos es posible. Si en cada momento no tuviéramos delante más que una sola posibilidad, carecería de sentido llamarla así. Sería más bien pura necesidad.»

Todo vivir es vivirse, sentirse vivir, saberse existiendo, donde saber no implica conocimiento intelectual ni sabiduría especial ninguna, sino que es esa sorprendente PRESENCIA que su vida tiene para cada cual; sin ese saberse, sin ese darse cuenta, el dolor de muelas no nos dolería.

Yale philosopher Harry Frankfurt writes, "One of the salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.

René Dubois, "Piensa globalmente, actúa localmente"

This strategy proceeds by making people aware of their human longings and desires, and what these passions point to. These are longings and desires that are innate and buried in their lives. In particular, the strategy draws their attention to what have been called the "signals of transcendence" that are embedded in their normal, daily experience.

True seekers are different. On meeting them you feel their purpose, their energy, their integrity, their idealism, and their desire to close in on an answer. Something in life has awakened questions, has made them aware of a sense of need, has forced them to consider where they are in life. They have become seekers because something has spurred their quest for meaning, and they have to find an answer.

The first level of understanding necessary to faith is becoming critically aware of our dilemma in life without God.

We live in an age in which the overwhelming majority of people appear to be comfortable with their myopia.