Quotes about Awareness

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

I woke up many mornings not knowing what I'd done the night before. I'm amazed I'm not dead.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.