Quotes About Acknowledgment

if I'm not interested in knowing a person's name, I'm probably not really interested in the person as a person.

Gratitude: A humble recognition of all that the Divine has done and is doing for you. Words Of The Mother, vol.14, p.162

To be loved means to be recognized as existing.

If you feel irritation or depression or despair, recognize their presence and practice this mantra: Dear one, I am here for you. You should talk to your depression or your anger as you would to a child. You embrace it tenderly with the energy of mindfulness and say, Dear one, I know you are there, and I am going to take care of you, just as you would with your crying baby.

Just because we do not perceive something, it is not correct to say it does not exist.

Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your perceptions need you, your feeling needs you. The wounded child in you needs you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it.

When a feeling or thought arises, your intention should not be to chase it away, even if by continuing to concentrate on the breath the feeling or thought passes naturally from the mind. The intention isn't to chase it away, hate it, worry about it, or be frightened by it. So what exactly should you be doing concerning such thoughts and feelings? Simply acknowledge their presence.

We should not be too proud of being vegetarian, for example. We must acknowledge that the water in which we boil our vegetables contain many microorganisms, not to mention the vegetables themselves, But even when we cannot be completely nonviolent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of nonviolence....Our effort is only to proceed in that direction.

Anytime someone is wearing Jordan, you have to respect!

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.

No one really sees the hours of work you put into that moment that finally happens on television or in the theater; they just kind of see the result.

Just looking down the bench and when you're on the court, you start to realize, 'I'm an All-Star.'

Whether it's just walking down the street to try to go to a movie, go to dinner, something like that, there are always a few people that recognize you.

You know, if Kanye knows who you are, I think you're pretty much here. You've arrived.

I wouldn't dare compare myself to Buffon, not as a man and not as a keeper.

Whenever I come out with a hit record, they'll say, 'Ah, that's because of R. Kelly. Oh, it's because of Ashanti. Oh, he's lucky.'

The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.

I love Kim Kardashian. There, I've said it.

Mostly, people want to take pictures sometimes of me, or they'll say, 'Hey.' That's been kinda cool.

If you want to call me a Karaoke King, I'll take it.

You gotta claim the crown and the people also gotta crown you, too. It's not just about somebody saying they king.

When I say I'm famous, I'm not kidding myself. I know my place in the celebrity kingdom - right at the bottom next to reality-show contestants, local politicians, and day-players on 'Law & Order.'

I said a lot of things about which I was wrong. Now I have to sit back and take what's coming, and I will. I still like women in the bedrooms and kitchens in that order, but some of them can do other things.