Quotes about Awareness

To live a disciplined life is to live in such a way that you want only to be where God is with you. The more deeply you live your spiritual life, the easier it will be to discern the difference between living with God and living without God, and the easier it will be to move away from the places where God is no longer with you. The great challenge here is faithfulness, which must be lived in the choices of every moment.

When we no longer pray, no longer listen to the voice of love that speaks to us in the moment, our lives become absurd lives in which we are thrown back and forth between the past and the future. If we could just be, for a few minutes each day, fully where we are, we would indeed discover that we are not alone and that the One who is with us wants only one thing: to give us love

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.