Quotes about Awareness
The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Busy? The word loses all meaning under the canopy of this sky.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Christians are not particularly gifted at knowing how we sound to others, especially in parts of the world where our voices are the loudest and most numerous.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Anything can become a spiritual practice once you are willing to approach it that way—once you let it bring you to your knees and show you what is real, including who you really are, who other people are, and how near God can be when you have lost your way.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Do you have a body? Don't sit on the porch! Go out and walk in the rain! If you are in love, then why are you asleep? Wake up, wake up! You have slept millions and millions of years. Why not wake up this morning?
- Barbara Brown Taylor
To be a priest is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
One of the quietest revolutions in Religion 101 follows a student's recognition that he or she has a worldview, a particular way of viewing reality that it is not the only way. A worldview is a wave, but not the entire ocean.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
When we run from darkness, how much do we really know about what we are running from? If we turn away from darkness on principle, doing everything we can to avoid it because there is simply no telling what it contains, isn't there a chance that what we are running from is God?
- Barbara Brown Taylor
If I trust what I see on my phone more than what I see out my window, what does it mean to believe that the real world is not where I live?
- Barbara Brown Taylor
I had lived so long in the mainstream that I never even though about how I sounded from the margins
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it. So welcome to your own priesthood, practiced at the altar of your own life. The good news is that you have everything you need to begin.
- Barbara Brown Taylor