Quotes about Awareness

If you want to look for obstacles, what's wrong is always available. But so is what's right!

Meaning equals emotion and emotion equals life. Choose consciously and wisely.

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.

Our life experiences area result of where our attention takes us.

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

The problem is that they don't even realize that they're walking a new road every day. They don't see that the fields are new and the seasons change. All they think about is food and water

It's today I must be living.

If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.

A drop of sense can save you an ocean of tears.

Contemplative prayer is a method of exposing and disengaging from the ordinary obstacles to our awareness of God's presence with us. This prayer is not an end, but a beginning. It's easy to give in to the temptation to chase after the enemy every time he shows himself; sometimes it's the right thing to do. There is a better way to defeat him—fix our eyes and our hearts steadfastly on Jesus. His light will drive out the darkness.

The further away you are from something, the fuzzier it becomes.