Quotes about Awareness

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.

It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.

Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.

Grace isn't just for other people. Maybe you didn't get that memo.

I'm saying that we don't know how God protects us. How he is there for us, but he is. We live our life seeing only our perspective—seeing our circumstances and judging God by what happens to us. But what if we judged God by what didn't happen to us? What if we started asking . . . God, what is your view? What did you protect me from?

Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.