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Awareness Quotes
"They let us be, here, in the cage of our ignorance."
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"Coming out of sleep, I had the advantage of two worlds, the layered firmament of dream and the temporal fixtures of the mind awake. I stretched luxuriously-a good and tingling sensation. It's as though the skin has shrunk in the night and one must push it out to daytime size by bulging the muscles, and there's an a itching pleasure in it."
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"It is unimpressive to speaking rudely to others. Often, all we need to do to ensure that we do not launch into a rude remark is to pause . . . breathe . . . and smile to ourselves before speaking.And when people are rude to you, just remember that they are revealing who they are, not who you are. Don't take it personally. Sometimes being silent is your best response."
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"Other people may well not find it relevant that you have forgiven yourself, but you need to know that it is not for them anyway. Everything at the moment is wholly about you."
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"Be wary of what you do with the attention social media gives you."
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"I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in."
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"For all the normal people who make fun of the mentally ill it's spelled K.A.R.M.A. and it's pronounced your days coming, Bitch!"
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"Let's watch out for the unpredictability and the wildcat jumps of contrarian people, whose sole interests are soaring targets at high-speed, at all costs and without any consideration. Perceptive understanding may help us discover the hidden actualities behind the 'appearances'. ['Mama. Meine Bäume wachsen bis in den Himmel']"
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"If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything."
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"We are always swimming in the ocean of love, but most of the time, we just don't realize it."
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"INSECURITY breeds JEALOUSY / JEALOUSY creates ENVY / ENVY causes self-destruction / a hater is made up of all three. Just remember you are an opportunity away from being hated on yourself!"
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"But everyone knows someone who has died, I said. Why is it so hard to think about dying?'Because,' Morrie continued, 'most of us walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.'And facing death changes all that?'Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently.'He sighed. 'Learn how to die, and you learn how to live."
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"Everything, all those great things, had happened so far away--or so it seemed to [Mma Ramotswe] at the time. The world was made to sound as if it belonged to other people--to those who lived in distant countries that were so different from Botswana; that was before people had learned to assert that the world was theirs too, that what happened in Botswana was every bit as important, and valuable, as what happened anywhere else."
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"The world is groaning and mourning in pain and ignorance, because the people do not know much about the principles of God."
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"Your mind couldn't rest like the other little boys. You looked around and you saw the blanket of fear covered the whole country."
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"You don't hear what I hear."
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"I am a link in a chain."
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"Self-awareness is self adventure."
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"You opinions about me does not change who I am."
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"Perhaps we have been dependent too long on language and thought, and need to reawaken our inherent sense of the subtle vibration of Energy-Consciousness. All you have to do is unblock the blocked parts and awaken the sleeping parts of your being to access it."
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"The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women?"
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"Familiarity increases carnality."
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"It's always the mind that needs quietening and the heart that needs listening to."
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"How much of this day have you already forgotten?"
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"You don't see what I see."
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"I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got."
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"A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter."
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"These random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them."
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"Don't look. See.Don't think. Feel.Don't hear.Listen.Pay attentionMiracles really do happen every day."
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"Shuddha upayog (applied awareness of the Self, The Soul) means to be able to see the Soul and the Body of the other person as separate. The constant contemplation of 'I am pure Soul (Shuddhatma)' is shukladhyan (pure contemplation as the Self)."
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"Mindfulness is the awareness of what is going on in us and around us in the present moment. It requires stopping, looking deeply, and recognizing both the uniqueness of the moment and its connection to everything that has gone on before and will go on in the future."
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"When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't have to have eaten it to know that it would make you throw up."
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"Every thing-every atom is conscious. To find it we have to open our eyes and see with a higher consciousness."
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"Even though some individual scholars try to tell us there is no direct connection between images of violence and the violence confronting us in our lives, the commonsense truth remains- we are affected by the images we consume and by the states of mind we are in when watching them. If consumers want to be entertained, and the images shown us as entertaining are images of violent dehumanization, it makes sense that these acts become more acceptable in our daily lives and that we become less likely to respond to them with moral outrage or concern. Were we all seeing more images of loving human interaction, it would undoubtedly have a positive impact on our lives."
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"We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation."
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"Freedom of Speech doesn't justify online bullying. Words have power, be careful how you use them."
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