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Awareness Quotes
"I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either."
55
"The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony."
55
"Awareness is a choiceless consciousness. Awareness is the capacity to embrace, accept and include both joy and sadness, love and aloneness, light and darkness, male and female qualities and life and death. Through saying "yes and accepting both tendencies and including whatever aspect that happens in the moment, we meet our unlimited and boundless inner being. The inner man and woman need to find their own independence and integrity."
55
"What you don't know will hurt you. What you don't know will tragically affect your life. What you don't know will leave your life empty. What you don't know will leave you without a relationship. We're all affected by knowledge, whether we know or whether we don't know. That's why you've got to read the books."
54
"When you are measuring life, you are not living it."
54
"Words will only ruin you, if you allow them."
54
"There are enough real enemies and threats in the world without having to invent imaginary ones."
54
"Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."
52
"I was in my early twenties and I was, to be quite honest, a bit of a punk. A swaggering entitled straight white guy who hadn't but a lot of thought into what it might be like to be anything other than a straight white guy. Because when you're a straight white guy, you don't *have* to think about that...."
52
"You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are."
52
"I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!"
51
"I am Chandubhai' is an illusion itself and from that are karmas charged. When does 'charging' of new karmas stop? When one attains the exact awareness of 'who I am?'."
51
"Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis."
50
"Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth."
50
"People today think of the world as a uniquely dangerous place. It’s hard to follow the news without feeling a mounting dread of terrorist attacks, a clash of civilizations, and the use of weapons of mass destruction. But we often forget the dangers that filled the news a few decades ago and become blasé about the good fortune that so many of them have fizzled out."
50
"Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun."
50
"Any person whom seeks to live a historical existence must devote their efforts to learning about the world, care about people and nature, and seek to express their thoughts in the artistic methodology most appropriate to their particular talent. A person cannot fake self-awareness or imitate an artistic nature. A person must honestly earn a heightened level of conscious awareness."
50
"One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart."
49
"You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo."
49
"Most ladies do not understand that first and primary they need to find and fulfil their life calling."
48
"A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness the curiosity and attention of a mass audience through its presentational techniques, a society becomes dangerously unable to grapple with its own dilemmas and therefore to marshal the popular will to change and improve itself."
48
"The first step in awareness is to be watchful of your body. Slowly,slowly one becomes alert about each gesture,each movement. And as you become aware, a miracle starts happening: many things that you used to do before simply disappear. Your body becomes more relaxed,your body becomes more attuned, a deep peace starts prevailing even in your body, a subtle music pulsates in your body."
48
"Whether your awareness is focused on your own emotions and perceptions or directed toward the preferences, needs, and feelings of others, being mindful (aware and attentive) will enable you to respond more appropriately."
48
"A danger foreseen is half avoided."
48
"To Him who has sense, a sign is enoughFor the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough."
48
"I'm heartened by the growing awareness of global warming among important communities and organizations in our nation."
47
"When the blind lead the blind the world is full of casualties."
47
"Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is tragedy. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance creates lack. Ignorance creates disease. Ignorance will shorten your life. Ignorance will empty your life and leave you with the husks, nothing to account for. No, ignorance is not bliss. "
47
"Thorne cleared his throat. "We need to get back to the house. We've already risked drawing enough attention, and she..." He looked at Winter. There was an edge to his expression, like he didn't trust anyone who was more attractive than he was. "...will definitely draw attention."
47
"They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do."
47
"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."
47
"I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect."
47
"When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain."
47
"If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you."
47
"If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate."
47
"The common factor in all our experiences is wakeful consciousness which turns what happens into an experience or a meaningful reality."
46
"From up here, the city below looked calm. Peaceful. Serene.It was a lie. Mia could feel the lie in her bones, in the foreboding creeping along the fine hairs on her skin. But mostly she could feel it in her head, where preparations were underway across Romane to meet the coming chaos."
46
"We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility."
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