Quotes about Awareness

Could you be anything but bluntly honest with a wide-awake human being?

I have little to do with how you'll meet tomorrow, Gurney Halleck. I can only help you meet today.

Know thyself? Dasein sensed then he couldn't know himself without dying. Death was the background against which life could know itself.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset; it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.

We can no longer afford to ignore the work of others and to plan our missions as though other missions did not exist.

There is a minute in the day, a minute for everyone, though most everyone is too distracted to notice its arrival. A minute of gifts coming from the world like birthday presents. A minute given to every day that seems to create a golden bubble available to everyone.

Not reaching back for what was lost in my yesterdays. And not reaching for what I hope will be in my tomorrow. But living fully with what is right in front of me. And truly seeing the gift of this moment.

The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.

The one who obeys God's instruction for today will develop a keen awareness of His direction for tomorrow.