Quotes About Awareness

I am so often struck by what we do not do, all of us. And I am also, now, so acutely aware of the quick passage of time, the way that we come suddenly to our own separate closures. It is as though a thing says, I told you. But you thought I was just kidding.

I used to make a basket of my hands to hold a feeling of joy that came upon me, then flatten my hands against my chest as if to make it part of me. Not understanding that it already was.

One thing about doing this kind of work, you develop a keen appreciation for the fact that you can walk. And see the sky. And feel the air on your face. And that you can check high and low and no, nothing in your body is hurting, not one thing. I

I LIKE WHEN YOU WALK far enough that a kind of relaxation happens and you can be inside the rhythm of your feet. Your brain shifts like a car; you settle down, look around, and feel ah. In a more slow-motion way, you see where you are. And where I am is outside and free, on a summer day. There are times you know

Already I've seen that when you're pulled away from your normal routine, it's as though air and sunlight come into your brain and do a little housecleaning.

Kids don't really see old people. A lot of people don't.

he was learning a lot about the kind of loneliness some people endured. He

false vision, an unconscious surrender to seeing things another way.

when you are aware you are dying, the path narrows, and there is room eventually for only one person—you, not distracted by anything else and therefore able to see all that couldn't be seen before. And that this can be such a great gift that you shiver inside at the taking of it.

That's the Jesus truth. It's a wide, wide world. Sooner you lift up your gaze from your own self, sooner you know that.

I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.

There is only so much discordance to which anyone can listen before the notes become unbearable and they tune it out.

Frankly, I'm guessing that before getting to my house today, Shoshanna had thought the Hoover Dam was some kind of vacuum cleaner attachment.

As a mother, you need to remember that a loving and compassionate God is one hundred percent aware of your child's situation.

Whatsoever things are true...think on these things.

R?spunsul e în inima ta,spuse ea blând.Matale poÈ›i s?-l auzi întotdeauna ,dac? stai s?-l asculÈ›i .

Watching Prudence, Kit suddenly felt a queer prickling along her spine There was something different about her. The child's head was up. Her eyes were fastened levelly on the magistrate. Prudence was not afraid!

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.

I wondered, Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message: You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.