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Awareness
How often do we go about our days in an endless stream of activity from the
moment we awake until we fall asleep? Do we often move from one task to
another without any conscious awareness of the universe around us while we
are busy tending to our details? The details deserve our attention but would
we not be well-served to set aside a few moments each day to "do nothing"
but reconnect to a greater whole?
"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."
- Virginia Woolf
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the 'Universe', a part
limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and
feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion
of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting
us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle
of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its
beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such
achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner
security."
- Albert Einstein (American theoretical physicist)
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