Quotes about Awareness
We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.
— Thomas Merton
[W]hen the faculties are empty, then your whole being listens.
— Thomas Merton
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
— Thomas Merton
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
— Thomas Merton
Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you'll find out when you need to -- find out both the questions and the answers.
— Thomas Merton
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
— Thomas Merton
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
— Thomas Paine
The eye is for both seeing and weeping. Sin must first be seen before it can be wept for.
— Thomas Watson
This light does that which no other light can. It makes a man perceive himself to be blind.
— Thomas Watson
Normally, it's difficult for me to watch a movie that I'm in.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Time is numbered only to man.
— Ezra Taft Benson
If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti