Quotes about Awareness

People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.

Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.

This is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.

I got this advice that if you know a panic attack is happening, just sit back and go, 'Okay, this is happening to me, but it'll be over. You'll be fine. You'll live.'

I believe the more important thing is your mind and your heart. Those two things are the most ignored parts of our beings.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

Ignoring our emotions is turning our back on reality. Listening to our emotions ushers us into reality. And reality is where we meet God. . . . Emotions are the language of the soul. They are the cry that gives the heart a voice. . .

True spirituality frees us to live joyfully in the present.

Each of us needs an opportunity to be alone and silent, or even, indeed, to find space in the day or in the week, just to reflect and to listen to the voice of God that speaks deep within us. . . . In fact, our search for God is only our response to his search for us. He knocks at our door, but for many people, their lives are too preoccupied for them to be able to hear. — Cardinal Basil Hume

The vast majority of us go to our graves without knowing who we are.

We can't change—or better said, invite God to change us—when we are unaware and do not see the truth.

Most of us never examine the scripts handed to us by our past.