Quotes about Awareness

I've learned that if you want people to join in any kind of conservation effort, you have to help them to care with their hearts, not just their heads.

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

Bullying is a topic that's been close to my heart for a while.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.

One should count each day a separate life.

The world of efficiency and anonymity dehumanises us. We have to ask who the invisible people are. Who makes our clothes? Who picks our vegetables? And how are they treated?

The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.

Dom Helder Camara, a twentieth-century bishop in Brazil, said, "When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a Communist.