Quotes About Awareness

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. Paul Cezanne

The landscape thinks itself in me, and I am its consciousness.

Alcoholism is the one illness that tells you, you don't have it

I know, I know and you know, we knew, we did not know, we were there, after all, and not there and at times when only the void stood between us we got all the way to each other.

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

advertising produces familiarity which produces sales

Sometimes love creeps upon me, and I suddenly sort of just realise that it's there when i start shaving my legs every day and singing on my bicycle.

If something doesn't seem right to you, if it raises red flags, then listen to your gut. Don't listen to the anxious, people-pleasing part that wants you to ignore your intuition and just act nice.

Child mortality [since 2000 is] down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. … It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.

The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.

Weakness is not the problem, but my delusion of my strengths is.

Here's how gospel growth works: you cannot grieve what you do not see, you cannot confess what you haven't grieved, and you can't repent of what you haven't confessed.

There is no one we swindle more than we swindle ourselves. There is no one we run to defend more than we do ourselves. And like every other spiritually blind person, Joe was blind to his blindness.

One of the most important questions you could ask is: "What is God doing in the here and now?

In the busyness and self-centeredness of our lives, we sadly forget how much our lives have been blessed by and radically redirected by mercy.

We are comfortable when we should be concerned. We are passive when we should be active. We are satisfied when we should be dissatisfied.

Let yourself be humbled by how little you know and how few things you are able to do.

You and I must live temptation-aware; to fail to do so is to fail to recognize the fallenness of the world that happens to be the address where we live.

The person who is comfortable in his own righteousness hasn't really understood grace, and the person who is unimpressed by God's grace hasn't really understood his sin. So

Mourning means you recognize the most important reality in the human existence, sin. Mourning means you have been hit by the weight of what it has done to you and to everyone you know.

Perhaps in ways that you have never come close to considering, your dissatisfaction is an awe problem.

Here's how confession works. You cannot confess what you haven't grieved, you can't grieve what you do not see, and you cannot repent of what you have not confessed. So one of the most important operations of God's grace is to give us eyes to see our sin and hearts that are willing to confess it.