Quotes about Awareness

The enemy. As long as we never expose what he is doing, he will work in the darkness.

If you have the attention of the enemy, you also have the attention of God.

Son, if you think about, read about, and talk about demons, they will show up.

True prayer intercessors have double vision. They see in the natural and they see in the spirit.

As the Trappist monk Thomas Merton says: 'God is far too real to be met anywhere other than in reality.

Rob's story reminds me that how we listen is sometimes (always?) more important than what is said. Maybe that's why Jesus was forever asking people if they had ears to hear what he was saying. And I suspect it's also why the very first word of the great Benedictine Rule, which has guided monastic communities for 1,500 years, is this one little word: listen. Fifteen centuries of successful community built on the power of mere listening.

The broader we cast our net, the deeper we wind up owning our own thoughts.

Thomas Merton's Thoughts in Solitude.

White privilege is not an overt act of racism but the simple observation that people of white skin are historically and culturally dominant, and therefore seen as the standard or norm.

To live by faith—to live wisely—means living with an ever-increasing awareness of the hidden things, not simply a detached general knowledge that, say, "Money can be harmful," but a deep knowledge of ourselves, a true self-awareness of what money is doing to me . . . right now.

That Jesus was not and could not have been understood by walking with Jesus in and around Galilee. The disciples themselves—those Jesus handpicked to carry on his work—were utterly clueless about the big picture.

“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”