Quotes About Awareness

Write down everything you spend. The waste in your daily spending should soon become apparent.

Looking down, the student exclaimed, "Look, there is a $100 bill on the ground." Without a glance down or a break in stride, Fama replied, "No, there isn't. If there were, someone would have picked it up already.

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.

we are chemosensory idiots. By comparison most other organisms are geniuses.

Traditional religious beliefs have been eroded, not so much by humiliating disproofs of their mythologies as by the growing awareness that beliefs are really enabling mechanisms for survival. Religions

God is in his heaven and he don't care most of the time. The trick of life is to know when God does care and do all you need to do behind his back.

People, I have learned, have a way of taking root in one's still-developing mind without our knowing it, especially people, like [James] Baldwin, who live in the world of words.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experience. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

Unless we get off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

A satellite has no conscience.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.

the institutional bias of the private mass media "does not merely protect the corporate system. It robs the public of a chance to understand the real world.

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.

Let alone, without the help of or hot cognition, cold cognition is simply paralyzed by choice.

The conscious mind, ungrounded by the wisdom of the body, is remarkably incapable of taking care of business.

I was thinking that a life is just the history of what we give our attention to,' said Patrick. 'The rest is packaging.

Could one have a time-release epiphany, an epiphany without realizing it had happened? Or were they always trumpeted by angels and preceded by temporary blindness, Patrick wondered, as he walked down the corridor in the wrong direction.

One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.

Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.