Quotes about Awareness
Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.
— Thomas Merton
Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.
— Frederick Douglass
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
— Mark Twain
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
— William James
It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.
— Drew Barrymore
We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.
— Donald Miller
I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest.
— Donald Miller
For a moment sitting there above the city, i imagined life outside of narcissism. I wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself. I wondered how peaceful it might be not to be pestered by that childish voice that wants for pleasure and attention. I wondered how it would be like not to live in a house of mirrors, everywhere i go being reminded of myself.
— Donald Miller
Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror
— Donald Miller
Oprah Winfrey, an undeniably successful guide to millions, once explained the three things every human being wants most are to be seen, heard, and understood. This is the essence of empathy.
— Donald Miller
Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you would not like God to read. Go no place where you would not like God to find you. Read no book of which you would not like God to say, "Show it to Me." Never spend your time in such a way that you would not like to have God say, "What are you doing?
— JC Ryle
Hell is truth known too late.
— JC Ryle