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Awareness Quotes
"Some trees grow straight, while others grow gnarled and twisted. Yet none are imperfect. Perfection is merely a perception."
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"Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never."
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"I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment.I hunger to taste life.God."
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"There is so much to see and learn here that I often find I'm not blinking in case I miss anything. I have to use artificial tears to moisten my eyes."
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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's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. Also, when I write letters, I spend the next two days thinking about what I figured out in my letters."
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"There seems to be a direct correlation between the spike in suicides by young people and the increase in cyberbullying amongst young people."
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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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"It's hard to be present when your attention is suffering information overload. Switch off and just sit still."
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"You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days."
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"You are where your brain is but not where a front-page headline is."
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"It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time."
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"When we take the time to break free from the tyranny of Time and learn to listen to the sound of unspoken words, we discern the hot air behind the frenzy of the wheeling and dealing around. ['Wheeling and dealing']"
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"The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it-just as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may be to marry him or her."
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"It's easy to hide behind a smile, that's why it is so important to search instead inside the eyes."
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"What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole its body brevity and wit its soul."
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"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
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"Oh, to awake from dreaming!"
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"You can see ugliness or you can see beauty in the same thing - It just indicates your state of mind."
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"And how easy it is to recognize the revenant shapes that the old unchanging enemies-racism, leader worship, superstition-assume when they reappear amongst us (often bodyguarded by their new apologists)."
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"When some give you advice, say 'thank you'. Then, you must seek the quietness of your spirit for a reflection and direction."
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"Laugh now, cry later."
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"Only once in a while you become aware of your intrinsic nature, with sudden bursts of empty spaces, without any effort on your part, you come home, rejoice every breath so deep and so soothing, you relax, unfocused, you skip into timelessness. This is the greatest mystery, the greatest gift of existence, without any identification to your senses, no clutches of your old patterns of mind. Few Glimpses of Heaven on the earth! I have experienced, have you?"
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"There is no collective thinking."
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"The grandest form of delusion is misconstruing the obvious. Persons with an open, inquisitive, and intuitive mind can detect hidden clues that aggressive, narrow-minded, and impatient rationalist fail to perceive."
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"When the reality is no different than a beautiful dream, stick tightly to that reality!"
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"Just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention."
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"Funny, though, I don't feel too bad."
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"Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events."
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"Before we can fix the situation, we have to first see the situation, the world can't see straight right now, some are blinded by hatred, rage, fear, scepticism, some are blinded by their pains.We need to pray...pray that God open our eyes to see the problem from the source and not from the surface.You cannot solve a situation that you cannot see correctly."
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"Each time they ignore me, I feel invisible. I want to tell them that I am just as human as the man, just as worthy of acknowledgement. These are the little things, but sometimes it is the little things that sting the most."
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"It's much easier not to know things sometimes."
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"Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting."
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"Take a step back and view the world through your eyes, not someone else's. Listen to your heart and decide what you really want."
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"Trapped in a continuum of your own making. Awareness is the key that unlocks your opportunity for change."
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"Our levels of consciousness and awareness define our wants and needs. When we achieve higher levels of consciousness, our wants cease to exist."
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"When is one considered to be in the awareness of 'one's own Self'? It is when all the desires become mild (when desires lessens)."
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