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• The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

  M. Scott Peck

  Topics in Attitude, Confusion

  Tags in Chaos, Awareness, Change/Growth, Conflict, Worry, Difficulties

• The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn’t, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.

  Monica Baldwin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Awareness, Wonder, Creativity

• Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Awareness, Conceiving, Universal, Concept

• Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born – the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people’s experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Awareness, Language

• The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

  Paul Cézanne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Awareness, Our, Us, Own, Modest, Strength, Makes

• Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

  Unknown

  Topics in Attitude, Belief, Truth

  Tags in Awareness, Demosthenes, Lying

• To think and to be fully alive are the same.

  Hannah Arendt

  Topics in Ideals, Life

  Tags in Awareness, Attention, Reason, Thinking

• The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

  Aristotle

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Awareness, Survival, Contemplation, Value, Philosophy

• The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

  Willa Sibert Cather

  Topics in Religion, Spirituality

  Tags in Awareness, Wonder

• There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

  Linda Hogan

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Awareness, Attention, Patience

• If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.

  Tom Peters

  Topics in Confusion, Leadership

  Tags in Awareness, Doubt/Uncertainty, Learning, Attention

• Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

  Bodhidharma

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Awareness, Prevents, Arising, Evil

• People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Awareness, Wonder, Sacred, Earth

• May our heart’s garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Awareness, Garden, Heart

• To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Awareness, Garden

• Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

  Alfred Austin

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Awareness, Garden

• We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in Awareness

• To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

  William James

  Tags in Awareness, Means

• But by providing the background picture – the universal situational awareness that we desire – by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.

  Stephen Cambone

  Tags in Awareness, Analysis, Radar

• To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

  Bodhidharma

  Tags in Mortal, Awareness, Karma