“What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"? The impression of a "conscious presence" is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey at the zoo looks at me. I do not ask that they are "self-aware" in any strong sense (though I would guess that an element of self-awareness can be present). All I ask is that they sometimes simply feel!” FeelsHumansLooksSelfSometimesMightAsksStrongHuman BeingsAbilityAwarenessDogPlanetsElementsConsciousCatClaimsSelf AwarenessBlessedImpressionVery StrongMonkeysLook At MeOur PlanetApesZoos Author:Roger Penrose
“So when we sing, 'Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,' we are not thinking of the nearness of place, but of the nearness of relationship. It is for increasing degrees of awareness that we pray, for a more perfect consciousness of the divine Presence. We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.” ThinkingNeedsSoulSpacePerfectSecretConsciousnessLordAwarenessDivinePrayingDegreesDrawsBlessedAbsentAnswers To PrayerSecret Thoughts Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“When you begin to believe you have license because you are a special person breathing special oxygen, that's when you're in big trouble. That's the road to insanity. And a lot of people in the studios are like that. They believe that they are special. I do think actors are blessed, or cursed, with maybe a slightly heightened awareness, which you have to use.” PeopleThinkingBelievePersonsUseBigsActorsTroubleSpecialAwarenessBlessedStudiosBreathingInsanityOxygenLicenseCursed Author:Anthony Hopkins
“Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.” WayKindJoyWishOur LivesSadnessAwarenessObjectsPerspectivePerfectionBlessedEncountersMelancholySurroundMediocrityIncompleteFlawless Author:Alain de Botton
“As far as possible, you should pray in quiet and silent devotion. Try to have a favorite topic of prayer, such as a devotion to the passion of Jesus, the Blessed Sacrament, awareness of the divine presence; go directly to Jesus without too much fuss.” ShouldTryingPassionJesusPrayerToo MuchAwarenessDivinePrayingQuietBlessedSilentDevotionSacramentsTopicsBlessed Sacrament Author:Peter Julian Eymard
“When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.” LooksHeartJoyLaughingAwarenessFlowBlessedCastsLook UpBreastsSweetnessRemorse Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats