Quotes about Awareness

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

To say we must be more mindful of our words is an understatement.

One night a century ago, when a screech owl was screeching in the woods along the shores of Walden Pond, Henry Thoreau dipped his goose quill into his homemade ink and wrote in his diary: "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life, which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run.

I am ashamed to realize that I never really learned to live until I feared I was going to die.

The command is Do no work. Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. Accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.

I think that, when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

We have the ability and responsibility to keep God present in our minds, and those who do so will make steady progress toward him, for he will respond by making himself known to us.

And if you are already flying upside down and don't know it, your cleverness will do you little good.

The ultimate freedom we have as individuals is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon and think about. By think we mean all the ways in which we are aware of things, including our memories, perceptions, and beliefs. The focus of your thoughts significantly affects everything else that happens in your life and evokes the feelings that frame your world and motivate your actions.

Truth reveals reality, and reality can be described as what we humans run into when we are wrong, a collision in which we always lose.

The body is important, but the mind is all-important. And the most important thing about your mind is what it is fixed upon.

Christian spiritual formation is inescapably a matter of recognizing in ourselves the idea systems of evil that govern the present age and respective culture, as well as those that constitute life away from God.