Quotes about Awareness

How very little a person knew about someone simply from looking at her. Yet how much people decided about others at a single glance. Herself included.

But as he'd learned through the years, sometimes the best things were found when you weren't looking for them.

Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean

The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.