Quotes about Awareness
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
— Victor Hugo
Ignorance is the father of all fear.
— Herman Melville
For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.
— CS Lewis
As we get close to God, he is going to reveal things in our life that aren't pretty. We'll see the patterns of bitterness, anger, manipulation, and hurt that have cycled in our relationships.
— Chip Ingram
Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.
— Bruce Lee
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
— Karl Barth
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
— Marcus Aurelius
I try to live what I consider a poetic existence. That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.
— Maya Angelou
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
— Marcus Aurelius