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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it. People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too. Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights. To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware. The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue. Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them. The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics. Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change. Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness. Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world look after me. Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any. A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. Man may be defined as the animal that can say I, that can be aware of himself as a separate entity. There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God. It is not enough to give the customer excellent service. You must subtly make him aware of the great service he is getting. I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of. Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage. Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is. To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits. A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them. On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear. What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness. The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven. I felt compelled to perform -- to do my engagements and not let people down. And they supported me, although they weren?t aware how much it carried me through. One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others. Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs -- unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times. AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. 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 another, and all involved in one another For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace. The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect. The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change. Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative/intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience. The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence. Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance -- it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart. We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us. Everything great that we know has come from neurotics never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it. The worst thing that one can do is not try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- and never knowing. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life. The struggle of the male to learn to listen to and respect his own intuitive, inner prompting is the greatest challenge of all. His conditioning has been so powerful that it has all but destroyed his ability to be self-aware. |





