Quotes about Awareness

I always making sure I was present when anything was going on. I feared that if I missed any opportunity, the magic would come while I was not there and I would miss it forever.

The gift of presence is a rare and beautiful gift. To come - unguarded, undistracted - and be fully present, fully engaged with whoever we are with at that moment.

After I finish a phone call and before I start something else, I simply pause. When I pull into work in the morning and when I pull into my driveway in the evening, I pause.

My soul just can't do life at the speed of smartphones. But I was asking it to; everybody's asking theirs to.

Jesus said, "Do not throw your pearls to pigs" (Matt. 7:6). By this we don't think he was calling some people pigs. He was saying, "Look—be careful that you do not give something precious to someone who, at best, cannot recognize its beauty, or at worst, will trample on it." Consider your feminine heart and beauty your treasure, your pearls.

Life will provide a thousand sessions for raising the warrior God calls you to be. Turn your radar on during the day, and intentionally don't take the path of least resistance.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

Jesus, thank you that you are right here. You are with me, and you are in me.

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

When you do something noble and beautiful and no one notices, don't be sad. Sunrise is a beautiful spectacle but without a doubt the greater part of the audience is still asleep.