Quotes about Awareness

I felt as if the words I had spoken that day had soiled my tongue and mouth.

The summons to wakefulness is therefore a summons to attend to my agency.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

To know is not less than to feel.

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this ' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

What Socrates called the "unexamined life" that is "not worth living" now seems to be the life more people have slipped into than ever before.

We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique.

René Dubois, "Piensa globalmente, actúa localmente"

This strategy proceeds by making people aware of their human longings and desires, and what these passions point to. These are longings and desires that are innate and buried in their lives. In particular, the strategy draws their attention to what have been called the "signals of transcendence" that are embedded in their normal, daily experience.

True seekers are different. On meeting them you feel their purpose, their energy, their integrity, their idealism, and their desire to close in on an answer. Something in life has awakened questions, has made them aware of a sense of need, has forced them to consider where they are in life. They have become seekers because something has spurred their quest for meaning, and they have to find an answer.

The first level of understanding necessary to faith is becoming critically aware of our dilemma in life without God.