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Awareness Quotes
"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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"Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness."
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"Look beneath the surface, let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee."
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"I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced."
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"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."
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"The answers you look for are within you and around you."
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"It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation."
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"The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets."
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"Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost."
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"If you can devote yourself to your favorite occupation without getting money for it, but in order to discover your potential, then you will find out who you are."
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"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."
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"The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that."
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"It's time for everybody to start becoming conscious of their conscience."
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"May be you have already reached your target, but if you don't know this, you will move away from your target!"
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"A society that lives by worldly principles is slowly moving towards a global crisis in all areas."
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"People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man."
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"I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and have just been born today."
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"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. "
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"There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise."
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"It was not only colored people who praised John, since they could not, John felt, in any case really know; but white people also said it, in fact had said it first and said it still. It was when John was five years old and in the first grade that he was first noticed; and since he was noticed by an eye altogether alien and impersonal, he began to perceive, in wild uneasiness, his individual existence."
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"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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"In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves."
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"One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds."
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"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."
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"You gotta be in the NOW to create and experience the WOW!"
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"AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them."
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"It is an unnecessary burden to make negative judgmental assumptions about others. We are all on a journey."
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"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."
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"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?'."
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"Shift your consciousness to a higher consciousness to see the beauty and joy all around you. Immerse yourself in beauty and will see everyone will be eager to join you."
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"When the reality is no different than a beautiful dream, stick tightly to that reality!"
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"You'll never understand me as long as you're looking at me through society's lenses."
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"There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?"
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"We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us."
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"Query: How contrive not to waste one's time?Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while.Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth."
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