It is only when you don’t vitally feel the truth of something that you say it is difficult to put it into action. —Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things More about this quote Tags: feeling awareness action Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've never been very good at feasting on the daily newspaper. It turns bitter in my mouth. And yet, this is my world. This face of suffering I must embrace as a part of my responsibility. Part of the feast is becoming aware of the world that is mine. Part of the feast is owning this broken world as my own brokenness. —Macrina Wiederkehr More about this quote Tags: news awareness pain bitterness suffering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us, and call that handful of sand the world. —Robert Pirsig More about this quote Tags: wonder awareness perspective Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The meeting of a customer and a clerk across the service counter in a store is as significant as two leaders of nations meeting over a conference table in search of peace. If peace and understanding is possible, it must occur in the moment that is present. It can occur only when relationship is real and unconditional. Relationship begins with thoughtless awareness, an openness that sees and hears with humility, and a consideration that has already forgiven all things that the mind might present as a barrier to unity. —Booker Jones More about this quote Tags: awareness forgiveness peace relationship humility business service significance consideration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have learned that no matter how much I learn about anything, I am always at 'the threshold of ignorance,' a frontier of inner and outer awareness (and lack of it) in which some things have become second nature, some things are new and a little uncomfortable, and some things are a complete mystery. —Rich Frye More about this quote Tags: awareness ignorance learning mystery habit comfort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We forget that we ourselves are a part of history, that we are the product of growth and are condemned to perish if we lose the capacity for further growth and change. We are ourselves history and share the responsibility for world history and our position in it. But we gravely lack awareness of this responsibility. —Herman Hesse More about this quote Tags: awareness history change death responsibility growth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My hypersensitive awareness of time's speed led me to push myself to experience life at a maximum pace. If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now. —Elizabeth Gilbert in Love More about this quote Tags: awareness time experience speed maximizing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Awareness is not something that needs to be manufactured: when there is a gap, awareness enters into us. So awareness does not require a certain particular effort. Such an effort is unnecessary. Awareness is like a wind. If you open your doors and windows, it is bound to come in. —Chögyam Trungpa in The Path is the Goal: A Basic Handbook of Buddhist Meditation More about this quote Tags: awareness space necessity effort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces. —Rachel Carson More about this quote Tags: awareness force creation nature control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email