Quotes about Awareness

When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.

Whatever you focus upon, increases......When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing......A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret. ... How do we guard -- or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against -- our hearts? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?

Lord, help us to see trouble coming long before it gets here. And give us the wisdom to know what to do and the courage to do it.

It is next to impossible to hear the voice of wisdom if we are not really listening for it to begin with. The best counsel in the world is wasted counsel if our minds are already made up.

Grace is the offer of exactly what we do not deserve. Thus, it cannot be recognized or received until we are aware of precisely how undeserving we really are. It is the knowledge of what we do not deserve that allows us to receive grace for what it is. Unmerited. Unearned. Undeserved. For that reason, grace can only be experienced by those who acknowledge they are undeserving.

While nobody plans to mess up his life, the problem is that few of us plan not to.

None of us plan--or intend--to get into trouble. The problem is, we don't plan not to.

It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

As we all know, mental health matters, while we still have a long way to go, we're starting to see the wheels turning for real and meaningful change. As a parent of young boys, the fact these conversations will be happening at home, in their friendship groups and in the classroom is so important.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.