Quotes About Awareness

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Look at Him while He is looking at you.

The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.

Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.

Blessed is the mind which, during prayer, is insensible to all things.

If you would have God hear you when you pray, you must hear him when he speaks.

I forget how good I've got it sometimes, how lucky I am just to be alive. And I pass good prayer to the man upstairs just to thank him like I should. Yeah you know, I get it... I've got it good.

Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.

We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there.

Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.

The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there.

There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.

Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.

You are beautiful, brilliant, perceptive and pure beyond compare. Your folly lies in being unaware of your inner power and living a mediocre existence.

Obedience is the opener of eyes.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment

Prayer opens our eyes that we may see ourselves and others as God sees us.

Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.