Quotes About Awareness

Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being... Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.

A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it -- that alone can be like waking up from a dream.

Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you.

In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.

Can you be grateful for everything? No. But in every moment.

But the main reason you should read this is that I don't see why I should have to know all these terrible, terrible things and you should get off scot free.

We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.

Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

If we humans are good at anything, it's thinking we've got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.

Why do you need to go outside? For one thing, to appreciate what it is that keeps you alive. And the more time you spend outside, the more you are able to sense change in that world. If you can smell something, chances are that unless it's flowers or food, it doesn't belong there and is not good for us. But even more profound, we have to get outside and seek nature because we need that connection for our physical and mental health.

The way we live has less to do with individual choices and more to do with the general bent of our society than many of us realize. We forget that we don't need everything.

The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.

Savremen ?ovek hoda po licu Zemlje i ostavlja pustinju u otiscima svojih stopala.

I was eternally earthbound, a witness but no prophet.

Always be aware of what you are doing.

Her mother had always said that there was strength and power in the time right before dawn, and those who slept through it missed the best part of the day.

That Native American cultures are imperiled is important and not just to Indians. It is important to everyone, or should be. When we lose cultures, we lose American plurality—the productive and lovely discomfort that true difference brings.

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping back from the noise.

Wherever you are is called Here and you must treat it as a powerful stranger.

You should stay alive As often as possible and keep yourself open to anything out of place and everything with nowhere else to go, to carry what's left of your voice out and beyond, into, over, and under, past, within, outside, between, among, across, along, and up and around and to be beside yourself when the spirit moves you…

Beauty is the harvest of presence.