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Awareness Quotes


"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."


"Our journey without judgment can begin today."


"When the blind lead the blind the world is full of casualties."


"There are enough real enemies and threats in the world without having to invent imaginary ones."



"Most ladies do not understand that first and primary they need to find and fulfil their life calling."


"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...."



"At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument."



"You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are."


"When you are measuring life, you are not living it."


"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."


"I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!"


"Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth."



"Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit."


"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."



"A person who looks at the table and can see the universe is a person who can see the way."


"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."


"Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis."


"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."


"You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo."


"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."


"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."


"If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you."


"Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun."



"A danger foreseen is half avoided."


"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?'."


"I'm heartened by the growing awareness of global warming among important communities and organizations in our nation."


"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."


"They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do."


"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."


"There are days when everything I see seems to me charged with meaning: messages it would be difficult for me to communicate to others, define, translate into words, but which for this very reason appear to me decisive. They are announcements or presages that concern me and the world at once: for my part, not only the external events of my existence but also what happens inside, in the depths of me; and for the world, not some particular event but the general way of being of all things."


"It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand."



"To Him who has sense, a sign is enoughFor the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough."


"Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it."


"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."


"You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own."



"Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women - and abusrd. I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellow-men. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness. To death."


"National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it."
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