Quotes About Awareness

If the potential presence/arrival of another person can reveal the ungodliness in our behavior, how much more the coming of Christ himself?

Why do you think Adam and Eve were concerned about uncovered genitals, but not bare arms, legs, noses, or ears?

Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.3 What do you see in your own heart?

Why is it that when you lose something, it is always in the last place that you look for it? Because of course, once you remember, you always stop looking.

People say that things like this happen in slow motion, as though you suddenly become an astronaut in the antigravity chamber of your own life. This wasn't true for me. Things were speeding up instead, and I did my best to slow them down in my mind.

Maybe we're all dying, one breath at a time.

What if my becoming fully aware of the frequency of such moments makes me terrified to leave my house?

From her experience working with the weak and the sick, she'd learned that the disease you ignore is the one that kills you, so she tried her best to have everything out in the open.

From her experience working with the weak and the sick, she'd learned that the disease you ignore is the one that kills you, so she tried her best to have everything out in the open.

the "old world" view separates data from emotional process and focuses leaders on the "talking heads" of others, while the "new world" view focuses leaders on the nature of their own presence.

Children are apt to forget to remember.

we have to keep him in a state of enlightened deception.

Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.

Consider the world as an abode where in you have dropped down for an hour, then you have got to leave it and go ahead; or (suppose it is) like the wealth which you lay hands upon in a dream and become over-joyed and glad. Then you wake up to find yourself empty handed.

There is no pain worse than ignorance and lack of intellegence.

the end of your praying is not to inform God, as though he knew not your wants already; but rather to inform yourselves, to

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

With rebellion, awareness is born.

Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough.

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.