Quotes about Awareness

I do not have more information after reading a poem; I have more experience.

What do you think God meant when he said, "Remove your sandals from your feet. You're standing on holy ground"?

But to those who can't see it yet, everything comes in stories, creating readiness, nudging them toward receptive insight.

Somehow, though he moves right in front of me, I don't see him; quietly but surely he's active, and I miss it.

Inappropriate, anxiety-driven, fear-driven work would only interfere with and distract from what God was already doing. My "work" assignment was to pay more attention to what God does than what I do, and then to find, and guide others to find, the daily, weekly, yearly rhythms that would get this awareness into our bones. Holy Saturday for a start. And then Sabbath keeping. Staying in touch with people in despair, knowing them by name, and waiting for resurrection.

Drinking from the beautiful chalice of knowledge is better than adorning oneself with gold and rare gems.

Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that's where life starts.

We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

Remind yourself that other people's jobs aren't so simple.

Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because I didn't think it was important before, but because before, I was really focused on just paying my rent.