Quotes About Awareness

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

No man ever repented that he arose from the table sober, healthful, and with his wits about him.

Every schoolboy knows it.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.

You obviously haven't lived in D.C. very long if you think two and a half minutes is too soon to talk politics.

You can't fight memories. They come whether you look for them or not.

even in his own house, a man cannot use his eyes without danger.

True hope has no room for delusion.

We do not merely absorb experience; we filter and select it.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it.

Don't look to the past in anger nor the future in fear, but around in awareness. —J

Thich Nhat Hanh

We need to ask God daily to search our hearts for sin that we cannot or will not see.

Our goal in the pursuit of godliness should be to grow more in our conscious awareness that every moment of our lives is lived in the presence of God; that we are responsible to Him and dependent on Him. This goal would include a growing desire to please Him and glorify Him in the most ordinary activities of life. Of

The reason most of us do not see opportunities to serve is that we are continually thinking about ourselves instead of others.

As we do so, it will be helpful to keep in mind that the biblical writers never seemed to be aware of the problem, except for one statement by Paul in Romans 9:19-21. And Paul's statement seems to raise

In the West, especially, we don't often consciously feel the actions of government impacting our lives from day to day.

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.

A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on.

Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

To put the point another way, these beliefs provide rational reinforcement for our instinctive moral feelings. This is a significant observation for the obvious reason that we also have feelings and desires that are contrary to moral action. If rational considerations do not support morality but even undermine its rational credentials, it is likely that our moral commitments may be unsettled by thoughtful reflection and awareness.