Quotes about Awareness
True poets lead no one unawares. It is nothing other than awareness that poets-that is, creators of all sorts-seek. They do not display their art so as to make it appear real; they display the real in a way that reveals it to be art.
— James Carse
Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself.
— Joseph Brodsky
In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
— Carl Jung
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
— Frank Herbert
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
— Calvin Coolidge
When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.
— Henry Reed
All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
— DH Lawrence
The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
— Brennan Manning
Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.
— Germany Kent
God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.
— Oswald Chambers
When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by instances of that kind.
— Desmond Tutu