Quotes about Awareness

Everyone was on God's payroll, whether they knew it or not.

They taught me to pay attention, but not so much attention to my tiny princess mind.

So try to calm down, get quiet, breathe, and listen.

A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost

The point was to lean toward goodness, to resist less, to pray for our enemies. The point was to have a spiritual awakening of any sort that would help us live more often in kind awareness.

Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you soften, can wake you up. But publishing won't do any of those things; you'll never get in that way.

There is so much mercy around us and in us, so much available to us if we just have the eyes and intention to see it.

And while everyone has to make a living and show up for family, listening is optional. You have to make a conscious decision to listen harder.

Whether it's Mount Sinai, a pasture, a library, the creek down the road, aliveness (or whatever you want to call it) the song is above us, around us, within us. We transcend the incessant and wearying yammer of bullshit. Transcendence means you go from judgment, separation from life and yourself, to feeling at one-ish with the universe. We hook into something bigger than we are, truer than the self-serving stories we make up about life and ourselves.

Time is so full for people who are dying in a conscious way, full in the way that life is for children. They spend big round hours.

Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means you are willing to stop being such a jerk. When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and in the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back.

You unconscious can't work when youare breathing down it's neck. You'll sit there going, Are you done in there yet? Are you done in there yet?. But it is trying to tell you nicely, Shut up and go away.