#awareness

I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world. ↗

— Bertice Berry

#change #inspiration #change

Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishment, his mouth and eyes dumb. His toe scuffs a soft storm of sand, he kneels and his arms spread in pantomimic celebration, the immigrant, as in every moment of his life, arriving eternally on the shore of his Self. ↗

— E.L. Doctorow

#immigrant #salvation #self #self-awareness #death

An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment. ↗

— Anthony Standen

#awareness #conciousness #conscience #education #social-conscience

You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#college #education #life #education

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge. ↗

— John Taylor Gatto

#education #self-awareness #education

All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and greater good to others in the global community of our shared earth. ↗

— Zoe Weil

#compassion #education #global-community #humane #mogo

It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#self #self-awareness #faith

If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#death #life #mortality #death

When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#body-and-mind #body-image #emotional-freedom #emotional-health #emotional-intelligence

The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can start right where you are, in the midst of your life, and find peace in any circumstance. Even at those moments when the ground shakes terribly beneath you—when there’s a loss that will alter your life forever—you can still trust that you will find your way home. This is possible because you’ve touched the timeless love and awareness that are intrinsic to who you are. ↗

— Tara Brach

#buddhist-psychology #freedom #love #spirituality #freedom