Quotes About Awareness

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

You know how many times I have to witness the transition from, 'Oh, get away from that thug,' to, 'Oh, wait a minute, that's the guy from 'Weeds'! Hey, can I shake your hand?'

You witness a lot as a journalist, and what you witness becomes a part of you.

There are some things that you see that are hard to talk about. You can't talk about it. You just bear witness to them.

When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices - what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds.

No one likes to admit they are racist or bear prejudices. Nor do they even like to be open and honest when they witness racist behaviour.

Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.

My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.

If you become more of a witness to the way you're engaging in life, you can catch yourself really screwing up some days!

Being a Witness was too closed an experience. That's what I walked away from, not the things I believe.

The concept of a literature of witness - of bearing witness - has embedded in it the need for action. One must not simply hide in the shadows and type; one must also stand in the light.

Animals in the streets have tough lives, so it's up to all of us to speak out if we ever witness them being abused.

It doesn't take a bruise or a broken bone for a child to be a victim of domestic violence. Kids who witness domestic violence are victims, too.

It's important to be a witness to reality as this world can consume you.

When I was first lady, I worked to call attention to the plight of refugees fleeing Cambodia for Thailand, I visited Thailand and witnessed firsthand the trauma of parents and children separated by circumstance beyond their control.

A generation has witnessed the fight for racial justice from the front lines: Asian Americans have been paying attention, and they are ready to put up a fight.

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.

I can identify many different experiences that I've had over the course of my life and things that I've witnessed where it seemed that black men, specifically me or someone else may have got the, you know, different treatment than somebody else would in that same situation.

Sometimes, as an actor - and I've witnessed this with other actors that I've worked with - you don't realize that it's not all about the actor.