Alertness

The difference between alertness and awareness

"When you are alert, you are watching things around you. When you are aware, you are rarely aware of things around you. You are aware of yourself thinking of things around you. When you are alert, you are looking with very little thinking involved.

If you were trying to listen to a conversation in the next house down the street, you would have to listen very carefully. You could not be thinking, 'How am I doing right now? Here I am listening to the conversation in the next house. Why am I here anyway? What’s going on with me? I feel this way and my body hurts.'

That is the difference between alertness and awareness. Awareness is very important, but alertness is more important. The person of Knowledge is extremely alert, which makes life very exciting."

Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 27: Disappointment