Quotes about Awareness

You go to a funeral and you sit there grieving the death of this person you loved but when you leave you realize that mixed in with your sadness is a strange sort of energy that comes from a renewed awareness that you're here and this is your life and it's good and it's a sacred gift.

Begin whatever you're doing by remembering that you are here and you have been given a gift.

saw how in the story about Moses and the burning bush, Moses doesn't take his sandals off because suddenly the ground becomes holy. The ground had been holy the whole time. The story is about Moses becoming aware of it.

Boredom, cynicism, and despair are spiritual diseases because they disconnect us from the most primal truth about ourselves—that we are here.

read the story in the book of Genesis about Jacob waking up from a dream and saying, Surely God was in this place, and I, I wasn't aware of it. Jacob is waking up from a dream, but he's waking up in a larger sense as well, to the divine presence in all of life.

It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be.

Spirit is often lurking in whatever it is you most dislike.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those Not in position to look too close.

I have a mind myself and recognize Mind when I meet with it in any guise.

Something was withheld . . . We found it was ourselves.

Not far, but near, I stood and saw it all, Behind low boughs the trees let down outside; And the sweet pang it cost me not to call And tell you that I saw does still abide. But 'tis not true that thus I dwelt aloof, For the wood wakes, and you are here for proof.