Favorite Quotations
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Awareness
Ice-Breakers and Heart Warmers
As my awareness increases, my control over my own being increases." ~ Will Schutz By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal. ~ Lao Tzu Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half-awake. We are making use of only a small part of our mental resources. ~ William James It is no use fixing our minds on higher things if we ignore what is going on around us. ~ Aesop's Fables Just because the river is quiet does not mean the crocodiles have left. ~ Malay Proverb All men desire by nature to know. ~ Aristotle Observe what is with undivided awareness. ~ Bruce Lee A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated. ~ Ram Dass Try to be one on whom nothing is lost. ~ Henry James When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children. ~ Thomas Merton 1 | 2
"Let us not look back in anger, nor foward in fear, but around in awareness." ~ James Thurber