Quotes about Awareness

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

A fogged brain puts everyone in danger.

The awareness of a spiritual tradition that reaches through the centuries gives one a certain feeling of security in the face of all transitory difficulties.

We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know; God wants us to realize his presence, not in unsolved problems but in those that are solved.

To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is: "He leads the way, keep close to him.

The distinction between objective and personal thinking must truly first be learned. Many people never learn this (look at our colleagues in the ministry! among others).

Humility involves the full knowledge of our status as creatures, a clear consciousness of having received everything we have from God.

Love alone brings a human being to full awareness of personal existence. For it is in love alone that man finds room enough to be what he is.

Yet here we are, sitting in a restaurant, surrounded by people, many of whom are probably lost and going to hell, and we won't say a word about how they can have eternal life. Something is wrong with us. "You're absolutely right," I said. "We're willing to save someone in a visible crisis, but a lot of folks are in spiritual crisis and we don't say a word about how they can get out of it.

The soul knows everything. Be who you are and your life will transform forever.

Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.