Quotes about Awareness

The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.

Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Perhaps the most essential thing for a continuing education is to develop the capacity to know what you see and to understand what it means. Many people seem to go through life without seeing.

Think higher, feel deeper.

Turn off all notifications; you should control when you want information, not the reverse.

When we are all mind, things can get rigid.

The harder we press on a violin string, the less we can feel it. The louder we play, the less we hear.… If I "try" to play, I fail; if I race, I trip. The only road to strength is vulnerability. —STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.