Quotes about Awareness

It's just like what they say about lightening; It's safest to stand where it has already struck.

People shouldn't be allowed to live so far away," he said at the front door. "What do you gain by hiding away from the world like this? It'll catch up with you anyway.

Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think? I trot around the little house, treading

I felt as if the words I had spoken that day had soiled my tongue and mouth.

The summons to wakefulness is therefore a summons to attend to my agency.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

To know is not less than to feel.

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this ' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

What Socrates called the "unexamined life" that is "not worth living" now seems to be the life more people have slipped into than ever before.

We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique.

René Dubois, "Piensa globalmente, actúa localmente"