Quotes About Awareness

Of the times that I've been able to overcome a fear, it's been by making it something that I can understand, that I can hold on to - just something that's more tangible.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.

Life is what we see

And then an event did occur, to Emily, of considerable importance. She suddenly realized who she was.ï¾  There is little reason that one can see why it should not have happened to her five years earlier, or even five later; and none, why it should have come that particular afternoon.ï¾ 

but there is in me something that feeds on the now of things.

In order for the psychic capacity to work, you must be able to still the interfering thoughts of your conscious mind and turn inwardly. It is very important for you to be able to let go of your restless thoughts, your hopes, dreams, desires, and frustrations. Ideally, when the mind is completely stilled, you should be in such an objective, passive state of mind that you are no longer even conscious that you have a body - almost a prayerful attitude.

The state of waking sleep, therefore, is a condition in which you unconsciously deprive yourself of the expansive vistas of sensory experience. Your sensory receptors become prematurely, but not irrevocably, dull simply because you aren't stimulating them enough.

Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

Settle yourself in solitude and you will come upon Him in yourself. —TERESA OF ÁVILA

Your prayer must be turned inwards, not towards a God of Heaven nor towards a God far off, but towards God who is closer to you than you are aware.

The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

Leo Tolstoy observes, "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy observes, "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself."6

Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.

God wants us to be present where we are. He invites us to see and to hear what is around us and, through it all, to discern the footprints of the Holy. Actually

God wants us to be present where we are. He invites us to see and to hear what is around us and, through it all, to discern the footprints of the Holy.

As Richard Foster explains, "Though silence sometimes involves the absence of speech, it always involves the act of listening. Simply to refrain from talking, without a heart listening to God, is not silence."1

In the quiet of those brief hours, listen to the thunder of God's silence.

The Covenant of Place gives us the gift of focus.

our physical capacity for sustained attention is decreasing.

Distraction is the primary spiritual problem in our day.

This form of meditation is best accomplished with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other!

The handiwork of the Creator can speak to us and teach us if we will listen. Martin Buber tells the story of the rabbi who went to a pond every day at dawn to learn "the song with which the frogs praise God."1