Quotes about Awareness

Modern people…are ignorant of what they really are. We have simply forgotten what a human being really is, so we have men like Nietzsche and Freud and Adler, who tell us what we are, quite mercilessly. We have to discover our shadow. Otherwise we are driven into a world war in order to see what beasts we are.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The endless, unrelieved suffering of so many who are unable to deliver themselves is a reality we can no longer ignore.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.

Each day should be passed as though it were our last.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.