Quotes About Awareness

I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.

Get practiced at taking deep breaths before you speak. This will give you the space to stop, notice what was about to come out of your mouth, and course correct if needed.

Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.

We need to make sure that we have an honest, honest conversation and that we engage honest practices around how racism operates in this country. It's not just about people being mean to each other.

For a country such as India, whose public healthcare system is already severely strained, the lack of awareness and adaptation of safe practices by menstruating women is known to add another dimension to the overall problem.

If you love your neighbor and are compassionate, are you automatically a Christian? Practicing present-moment awareness does not entail joining any religion or accepting any belief system.

I'm well aware of the pragmatism of politics.

I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over.

Please continue to pray for and bring attention to those suffering in the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa.

The experience of prayer when there is no awareness of God and no apparent response from ourselves should not lead us to escape from prayer or give it up.

It is our nation which is blind, and needs our prayers.

Pray for the people of West Africa. You cannot be apathetic towards people for whom you are earnestly praying.

I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.

I am growing more and more aware that all too often we preachers aim at nothing and hit it.

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

The future is no longer indefinite. Time has become very finite to me and very precious.

I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.

'Precious' is so not P.C. What I learned from doing the film is that even though I am black, I'm prejudiced. I'm prejudiced against people who are darker than me.

In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.

Take life for what it is, which is very precious, and that's what moments happen.

The TT is a very precious thing to the riders. These guys that do the roads are very unique people. On the first hand you've got the bravery, the knowledge of the circuit, the guys live this - this is what they are about. I am very aware of that.

When you master the art of being fully awake to this moment, you bestow a precious gift on your soul - the experience of love. Being present is the art of the soul.