Quotes About Awareness

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Intuition? Yes, from experience I can say that's a kind of knowing that has no rationale, but just rises up your body, your mind, your whole being and lets you know.

Whenever you write down a perception or an idea, you reinforce the behavior of being perceptive or creative. Whenever you fail to describe or record such insights, you reinforce the behavior of being unperceptive and uncreative. Simple, isn't it?

Ultimately, you will learn to consult your greater resources so easily and quickly that you will be able to do so as quickly as an eye blink in the middle of a conversation, with no one else noticing.

every one of us has a constant stream of images going through our heads, which we usually don't even notice

Pause before making your next big decision. Look around and notice the slight irregularities of the ceiling, the texture of brick underfoot, the feel of your knee bending and straightening, and the slight shifts of sensation in your shoulders, stomach, neck, and face. You can't really explain why, but when you widen your neurological contact with the world in this way you feel stronger, wiser, and more creative—and you choose more wisely.

Once out of your cradle, you don't focus on the world in the abstract, perceiving things for the first time, but in synchrony with your accumulated knowledge, which enriches and helps define your experience, as well as ensuring its uniqueness.

All day long, you are selectively paying attention to something, and much more often than you may suspect, you can take charge of this process to good effect. Indeed, your ability to focus on this and suppress that is the key to controlling your experience and, ultimately, your well-being.

the use of time: the experiential equivalent of money.

As the poet W. H. Auden put it, "Choice of attention—to pay attention to this and ignore that—is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

One crucial fact often gets overlooked in laments about the electronic assault on your ability to focus: your machines are not in charge of what you attend to—you are. When they prove distracting, you have only to turn them off.

Doing nothing often leads to the very best kind of something.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing had happened.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

To save energy, do not go out lookin' for trouble; chances are, it will find you soon enough.

Be very suspicious if somebody says they want to make a movie of your life story.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

You can't change what you don't acknowledge.

You can never forget His appearing and His speaking to you.

One who is learning to serve should not do the same thing today as he did yesterday. If he is the same today as yesterday, he has squandered his opportunities. If we do not know what the Lord is doing today or what is going to happen today, we are missing the opportunity.

We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm.