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Quotes About Awareness

Unless you can guide the mind inward, and take the attention beyond the comprehension of mind, and directly experience life, you never reach to the ultimate truth of life.
~ Roshan Sharma
Cleverness have no meanings until you find the stupidity that teach you.
~ Lena Hussain
When you see something wrong and fail to do anything about it, even in the smallest effort, you accept the wrong.
~ D'Andre Lampkin
If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.
~ Michael Schumacher
He prays best who does not know that he is praying.
~ Saint Anthony of Padua
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
~ Black Elk
I you're in prayer, take care of your heart. If you're eating, take cre of your throat. If you're in another man's house, take care of your eyes. If you among people, take care of your tongue.
~ Luqman
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
~ Victor Hugo
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.
~ Brother Lawrence
True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.
~ Ray Stedman
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
~ Black Elk
It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have.
~ Bill Johnson
The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.
~ W. H. Auden
Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence
~ Brother Lawrence
No prayer is complete without presence.
~ Rumi
God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
~ Charles Stanley
Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.
~ Simone Weil
Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.
~ Tom Brewster
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
~ Adyashanti
Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.
~ Patricia Hampl
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.
~ Henri Nouwen