Quotes about Awareness

When you are present, you will know the Presence. It is that simple, and it is that hard.

God comes to you disguised as your life," as my friend Paula D'Arcy so wisely says.

All we can do is keep our egos out of the way, note and weep over our defensive behaviors, keep our various centers from closing down—and the Presence that is surely the Highest Power is then obvious, all-embracing, and immediately effective. The immediate embrace is from God's side.

Contemplation is a spiritual practice that has the potential to heal, and connect us to the source of our being.

Religion, at its best, helps people to bring this foundational divine love into ever-increasing consciousness. In other words, it's more about waking up than about cleaning up.

reality itself, our reality, my limited and sometimes misinterpreted experience, still becomes the revelatory place for God.

Whenever we get defensive or go emotionally up and down, this is a sign that we are attached to a self-image.

you never think yourself into a new way of living. You invariably live yourself into a new way of thinking.

The proof that you are a Christian is that you can see Christ everywhere else.

When you look at any other person, a flower, a honeybee, a mountain—anything—you are seeing the incarnation of God's love for you and the universe you call home.

Your True Self is that part of you that knows who you are and whose you are, although largely unconsciously.

Presence is experienced in a participative way, outside the mind.