Quotes About Awareness

Most citizens today cannot imagine such a possibility because they are psychologically affected by a phenomenon known as normalcy bias, whereby people fail to recognize or underestimate the possibility of disaster. Most people tend to believe that whatever they experience on a day-to-day basis is 'normal' and that things will stay that way.

Chicago led the nation in shootings in the first six months of 2014, with more than 1,100. During the July 4, 2014, weekend alone, there were 84 shootings and 14 homicides in Chicago. Yet the corporate mass media failed to inform the public that Chicago, with some of

some well-known

Prior to the 2013 Snowden leaks, few people were aware of the NSA's existence, even as it rapidly grew around them. Those

often wonder when the rest of the country will wake up and notice that the mass-drugging of our nation's children has gone too far. Why isn't the mainstream media giving this front-page coverage? Why aren't lawmakers demanding an end to the chemical abuse of our children?

As author Alain de Botton notes, the problem with facts is not that we need more of them, but that we don't know what to do with the ones we have.

We are tampered with, our opinions manufactured for us, all without our permission. What was the purpose of these behavior modifications? It was to bring about forced changes to our way of life, without our agreement and without even being aware of what was taking place.

I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

I'm starting to recognize that I am immersed in a sea of hurting people every day. If I simply pay attention and follow the promptings of the Spirit in all these little ways, my life is "ministry.

So instead of trying to monitor yourself for all the different emotions and what they might mean, simply monitor yourself for the few stages of crowd formation. By avoiding the tell-tale symptoms that accompany becoming part of the crowd, you will automatically avoid emotionalism.

All I'm trying to say is that if you're not willing to observe this, if you're just going to condemn it, you're never going to see it. It's there, whether you like it or not. This is stupid life-force we're dealing with here," he said. "Think how old it is, Jim. Think how huge it is. Understanding it doesn't make any difference.

You must pick the loss side first. Why? Otherwise, after you enter the market everything you look at and hear will be skewed in favor of your position.

A cigarette is like a hamster, harmless until you stick it in your mouth and light it on fire.

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

nobody likes to be made out to be morons, especially morons.

We should be careful as to the choices we make. We need to be certain that we are prepared to accept the consequences of those choices.

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

In the U.S., whichever party was in power wasn't interested in support for public health. Public health never competed well for resources in either the House or the Senate. Countries were like people: they didn't value health until they lost it. And then once they got it back, they returned to their old complacency.

Let me start with the overobvious, boxed in a cliché, wrapped in some truisms.