Awareness Quotes And Sayings
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“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications – just the sudden glimpse itself. ”
– Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
“Artist awake or be forever fallen.”
– Fred Varley
“Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.”
– Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.”
– John F. Kennedy
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ”
– Charlotte Bronte
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted. ”
– Sylvia Plath
“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning. ”
– Stephen Chbosky
“I think….you still have no idea. The effect you can have. ”
– Suzanne Collins
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle. ”
– Charles Dickens
“When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t. ”
– Jodi Picoult
“The timeless in you is aware of life‘s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream. ”
– Kahlil Gibran
“But you can’t get away from yourself. You can’t decide not to see yourself anymore. You can’t decide to turn off the noise in your head. ”
– Jay Asher
“Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him. ”
– Gordon B. Hinckley
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ”
– C.G. Jung
“We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy’s fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure–your perfection–is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. ”
– Charlotte Bronte
“Be present in all things and thankful for all things. ”
– Maya Angelou
“Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again – the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world’s greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding ”
– Saul Williams
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ”
– C.G. Jung
“I am not an angel,’ I asserted; ‘and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me – for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
– Charlotte Bronte
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. ”
– David Foster Wallace
“Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.”
– Marianne Willamson
“You’ve always been what you are. That’s not new. What you’ll get used to is knowing it. ”
– Cassandra Clare
“It takes courage…to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives. ”
– Marianne Willamson
“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got. ”
– Janis Joplin
“God made the world for the delight of human beings– if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we’ve waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us — you just can’t resist Him. I believe there’s no such thing as luck in life, it’s God’s love, it’s His. ”
– Mother Teresa
“Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness. ”
– Stephen King
“What do you think an artist is? …he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”
– Pablo Picasso
“Find out who you are and do it on purpose. ”
– Dolly Parton
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