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Awareness Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative…
- My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an…
- Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.
- Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the…
- The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.
- 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…
- The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.
- It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that…
- The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one…
- Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
More Awareness Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- Patience is the companion of wisdom. — Saint Augustine
- There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we… — Richard Bach
- Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. — Arthur Balfour
- There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. — Charles Baudelaire
- You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are… — Scott Adams
- We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the… — Joko Beck
- To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. — Walter Benjamin
- Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our… — Ezra Taft Benson
- If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. — William Blake
- The eye altering, alters all. — William Blake