Quotes About Awareness

A slightly more conscious awareness of writing as compensation may lend us energy to acknowledge our unrequited ache for more visceral forms of contact.

The epitome of empathy is said to be the capacity to look at the world through another's eyes. Though our glance on the planet is largely distorted by our crooked perspectives, we may nevertheless, with luck or agility, accede to a privileged glimpse of the view from another's shoes - and in the process claim to have been able, for a moment at least, to surmount our relativity.

Tragedies remind us how badly we need to keep controlling ourselves by showing us what happens when people don

A few moments in the countryside overlooking a valley could number among the most significant and useful of one's life, and be as worthy of precise remembrance as a birthday or a wedding.

for a time we are relieved of our preoccupations and placed in a wider context that stills the incessant complaints of our egos.

The trick is perhaps not to start a new life but to learn to reconsider the old one with less jaded and habituated eyes.

My mother used to say, Delia if sex ever rears its ugly head, close your eyes before you see the rest of it.

Thus it was that the dawn of sensibility was mistaken for the onset of senility

A few years ago she never would have noticed what Norman was doing. Or anyone else either. And if she took note of it now it was because she knew more of people's feelings than she used it. And could put herself in someone else's place.

He asked whether I had any trouble with my stomach. I hadn't, but the question was alarming...more widespread than I'd imagined...What in fact the doctor was asking was whether I had a delicate stomach.

Solo quello che vedi con la coda dell'occhio ti tocca nel profondo. (E.M. Forster)

Ogni conoscenza è preziosa, che abbia o no la minima utilità per l'uomo.

With wonder and a growing absence of fear she realized, I am more than I was an hour ago.

Rachel was becoming adept at sensing when something was going unsaid by adults: it was as if there were an invisible object sitting amid their visible words and Rachel was learning to judge its shape and size by feel alone.

The only thing more important than your to-do list is your to-be list. The only thing more important than your to-be list is to be. ~

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Quit making believe you don't know. You do know. Act on it.

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

Everything you think, feel, say, and do contains seeds of more of itself.

What happens to you happens from you.

when the student is ready, the teacher appears

We are abundant in whatever we pay attention to. The first step to upgrading your abundance is to upgrade what you are paying attention to.

Opportunities show up in direct proportion to your willingness to recognize them.

The thought that your life is moving too slowly is a sign that you are moving too fast. Rushing never improves the quality of our life or the results we seek; to the contrary, it muddies our vision and causes us to make errors that cost us twice as much time and energy to repair.