Quotes About Awareness

We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.

A moment of insight is a fortune, transporting us beyond the confines of measured time.

God is not in things of space, but in moments of time.

Six days a week the spirit is alone, disregarded, forsaken, forgotten.

All that is left to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.

It is in deeds that man becomes aware of what his life really is

is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.

Unless we are involved, the problem is not present.

He who wishes to ponder what is beyond the Bible must first learn to be sensitive to what is within the Bible.

Philosophy of religion conducted in this manner, then, celebrates humility before the divine, since the awareness of God's overwhelming priority decenters us and puts us in our proper place.

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

With mindfulness you can see the real owner of things. Do you think this is your world, your body? It is the world's world, the body's body. If you tell it, Don't get old, does the body listen? Does your stomach ask permission to get sick? We only rent this house; why not find out who really owns it?

I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it incredibly.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

Hochschild describes the startling moment when he first learned that forced labor in the Congo had taken eight to ten million lives, making it one of the major killing grounds of modern times.

we live in a world of corpses, and only about some of them is there a hue and cry. True

Had J.D. Salinger known who John Hinckley and mark David Chapman were before they bought his books or took them out of the library? Would it have mattered if he had? Had he returned the royalties he received from those purchases?

Pause for a moment and a place will pool out around you, not as an illusion but as a fact, in details it would not have had if you had not stopped to look.

The experience of the world broadens with the reality of other creatures made vivid within it.

Ignorance is not bliss; it's a missed opportunity