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Awareness Quotes
"If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside."
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"What he's looking for, what he wants, is all around him, but he doesn't want that because it is all around him. Every step's an effort, both physically and spiritually, because he imagines his goal to be external and distant."
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"Silly. Dark isn't scary. Dark is safe.'Why? 'I live in the dark all the time. But when it's dark outside everyone has to be there, too. And if you can't see someone, they can't see you, either. She sniffles a few times. 'So, it's like I'm hiding in the dark?'Yes. You're the secret when it's dark. Dark is safe."
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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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"There is a difference between perspective and perception. Perspective is a personal idea about certain events, based on the impressions, experiences or information available to the mind, while the perception is a momentary thought about the situation, event or people, purely based on the past experience or impressions."
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"Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost."
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"And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous."
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"It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing."
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"When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain."
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"She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late."
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"If I save my insight, I don't attend to weakness of eyesight."
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"You cannot operate from a place of love when you are emotionally unstable."
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"For god sake, open your eyes...the truth is crimes are real... the trouble is real... the horror is real... OPEN THE FUCKING EYES, you have freedom of speech, freedom do go to jail... My favourite characters are this in the jail!If you ask me with what I will open my eyes, my answer is with the critical edition The Leuchter Reports: Critical Editionby Fred A. Leuchter, The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine, The Common Sense by Thomas Paine."
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"I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities."
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"The scary part is that people don't realize how much they've changed ."
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"In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter-they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught."
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"Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream."
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"Your thoughts were deeper than your mind, your little eyes pierced through the heart of your nation."
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"You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded."
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"I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced."
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"Your opinion should always be based on what you have seen with your own eyes, what you have heard with your own ears and what you have felt with your own heart."
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"How much of what is there do you allow yourself to see?"
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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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"Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we love too hard. Those felt sensations are the beginning of the invention of the self. And if that works, why not feeling disgust for shit, fearing the cliff edge and strangers, remembering insults and favours, liking sex and food? God said, Let there be pain. And there was poetry. Eventually."
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"There is always a TRUTH to be revealed in any situation where your emotions have shifted."
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"But imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost."
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"Not all doors open in the same direction and with the same effort!"
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"Open up your eyes for me people, the prophecies are true and the beast is real."
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"It's a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal."
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"Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child."
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"Criticism of others. Criticism of 'self'.Criticism is the lack of compassion, insecurity of 'self' there a self defense mechanism is to put others down to feel superior EVEN IF you disagree with their lifestyle. Let go of your 'Self'.And if you have acted wrongly according to your own self-standard. Let go of your 'self'.Recognize when others are criticizing and 'choose' not to conform to the unconscious acts of others. Be aware, let go."
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"You might consider how to escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage."
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"When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you."
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"Intuitions are messenger of opportunities. Hit them with your ability."
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"If you closely scrutinize relationships everywhere that struggle, in most cases, it is due to lack of self-awareness of one or both parties..."
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"While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland."
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"Does that new man in your life call his ex 'a slut', 'a whore', 'a bitch', 'psycho' , 'crazy', 'a nutter' etc etc. Chances are, whatever he's calling his ex right now, he'll be calling you when things don't go his way. Be warned."
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"I wake up wondering if I know we're near mountains because of memory or because of something in the air."
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"The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same it is sixteen pounds to the square inch."
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"We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not."
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