Quotes About Awareness

Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did and never can carry us beyond our own persons, and it is by the imagination only that we form any conception of what are his sensations...His agonies, when they are thus brought home to ourselves, when we have this adopted and made them our own, begin at last to affect us, and we then tremble and shudder at the thought of what he feels.

Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

Poverty of knowledge is the greatest disaster

In Wirklichkeit war ich schon wach, aber ich hielt noch die Augen zu, um die Traaumgestalten noch länger vor meiner Seele zu behalten.

We can get so busy doing urgent things and so preoccupied with what comes next that we don't experience now. Afraid of being late, we rush from the past to the future. The present moment becomes a crack between what we did and what we have yet to do. It is virtually lost to us. We don't get to our futures any faster if we hurry. And we certainly don't become better people in haste. More likely than not, the faster we go the less we become.

When we are rested, we notice desires as well as lies buried in our souls.

They simply put us in a place where we can begin to notice God and respond to his word to us.

Give information. What we like about giving information is that, in a sense, you're giving the child a gift he can use forever. For the rest of his life he'll need to know that "milk turns sour when it's not refrigerated

One father said that what helped him become more sensitive to his son's emotional needs was when he began to equate the boy's bruised, unhappy feelings with physical bruises.

if we want to stop showing favoritism, we first have to be aware that we feel it. We need to be honest enough to admit the truth to ourselves. Knowing our bias immediately puts us in a better position to protect our "less favored children"; and it helps us protect our favored child, as well, from the pressure of having to maintain his position and from the inevitable hostility of his siblings.

The attitude behind your words is as important as the words themselves. The attitude that children thrive on is one that communicates, "You're basically a lovable, capable person. Right now there's a problem that needs attention. Once you're aware of it, you'll probably respond responsibly.

MOTHER: Billy, we're leaving in five minutes. BILLY: (doesn't answer and continues to read the comics.) MOTHER: Would you tell me what I just said? BILLY: You said we're leaving in five minutes. MOTHER: Okay, now that I know you know, I won't mention it again.

Refrain from giving the child information she already knows.

Steady denial of feelings can confuse and enrage kis. Also teaches them not to know what their feelings are--not to trust them.

Truth is a bit like depression. It creeps up on you. You don't notice it, you can keep denying it, but once it lands, it's indisputable

telling. I thought I knew this

Mr Elliott nodded sympathetically, leaned across the table and patted his client's hand. Gillian raised an eyebrow and wondered whether the man had slept through the #MeToo revolution.

I mean literally just heard

No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.

Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because of their obviousness, the general run of people disregard such truths or at least they do not make them the object of any concious knowledge. People are so bliend to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know.

The average person has the most fear of death and in reality thinks most rarely about it. The most prominent one occupies himself with it most persistently, but nevertheless fears it the least. The one lives blindly day to day, sinning away, only to sink down before the grim reaper. The other carefully observes his approach but then looks him in the eye, calm and composed.

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

Those who have no understanding of the political world around them have no right to criticise or complain. On