Quotes About Awareness

There is one major difference that has occurred in the past forty years that does indeed impinge upon the spiritual life. I can state it in one word: distraction.

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things…as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.    Ã¢â'¬â€Teilhard de Chardin

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justification. One

reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.

If you are too busy to read, you are too busy.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justification.

It is nothing to the green-finches; all their thoughts are in their song-talk. The sunny moment is to them all in all. So deeply are they rapt in it that they do not know whether it is a moment or a year. There is no clock for feeling, for joy, for love

Of course, there was a lot of anger and denial and even attempts to forget about being diabetic. Maybe I could forget about it for a while, but it never forgot about me.

The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

Fortunately, I'm good at ignoring a lot of what my brain does.

It's not necessary to fill every moment with your own voice. Silence terrifies you. You see your own existence as so tenuous that you're afraid you'll pop like a bubble if, at every opportunity, you don't remind the world that you're alive. But wisdom begins in silence. In learning to listen. To words and to the world. Trust me. You won't disappear. And, in time, you might find that you've grown into something unexpected." "What?

Stark: So, you think Mason knows I'm back. Vidocq: You just blew up his home. He might suspect something.

That's because for men and women, everything is different. We walk through entirely different worlds. Open your eyes a bit. What you see might not make you happy, but it will make you more human.

I might be dead and damned for all eternity but I'm not addle-brained. I remember.

I wonder if this is one of those things they call a "teachable moment." What it's supposed to teach me, I have no idea.

I don't seem to be alone anymore." "Very well," says Vehuel. "We'd like—" "Shh," he says, holding up a hand. "I'm trying to count." "Of course," Vehuel says in a tone that makes it pretty obvious she's not used to getting shushed.

The other bad part about being tossed out of a second story by one dead prick is that other dead pricks tend to notice.

Dying isn't the worst thing in the world, but dying because you're stupid is.

We judge the world quite harshly, but we rarely judge noise. We can hide in the noise.

Never underestimate the power of stupid

After all, isn't consciousness the gateway to awareness. And awareness is the seed of change.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.