Quotes About Awareness

Se você enfia uma faca de 20cm em minhas costas e puxa 10cm para fora, isso não é progresso. Se você puxa-la inteira para fora, ainda não seria progresso. O progresso é curar a ferida que o golpe fez. Ainda nem começaram a remover a faca. Eles nem admitem que a faca está lá

How can the white American government figure on selling "democracy" and "brotherhood" to non-white peoples—if they read and hear every day what's going on right here in America, and see the better-than-a-thousand-words photographs of the American white man denying "democracy" and "brotherhood

I could tell the impact of this upon them. They had been aware that the plight of the black man in America was bad, but they had not been aware that it was inhuman, that it was psychological castration.

Today, in many ways the black man sees the collective white man in America better than that white man can see himself.

I have less patience with someone who doesn't wear a watch than with anyone else, for this type is not time-conscious. [...] In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines succes or failure.

You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

You are the only human I've never been able to feel coming. I'm the only Guardian who can't sense lycans.

Los escritores contemporáneos no se leen los unos a los otros, sino que se vigilan.

You've got strengths you're not even aware of yet and you are going to be amazed at what you can do when this is all over. I believe in you; not just in your talent, but in you yourself. There is so much more to you than you even realize, I promise.

So many people say they want a new life, but then they take the new one they get every morning for granted. Don't do this.

A walk with a two-year-old is very Zen; it is not about the end but the journey. He needs to pet the dog someone is walking; to roll down the slight incline to the church basement, and then roll again, and again, and again; to remind me of the place where the wasps (he calls them bees) live, then zoom past it.

Tous nous collaborons à l'accomplissement d'une oeuvre unique, les uns en connaissance de cause et avec intelligence, les autres sans s'en rendre compte

Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.

Without close and reciprocal relationships with other animal beings, we're alienated from the rich, diverse, and magnificent world in which we live.

Silence is the enemy of social change.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you[?]

Quand on vit aux cotés des gens on ne se rend pas vraiment compte qu'ils changent, et c'est comme cela qu'on finit par les perdre.

Between stimulus and response there is a gap. It's a moment of choice about our actions and reactions. Most people blow past this, react out of habit and then claim they were helpless against themselves. Mind the gap.

I am constantly approached by people who are willing to go to any extreme for personal safety...except practicing basic emotional control.

An example of this is if he tells you "get in the car." You never go to a secondary location– ever.

What truly differentiates the heavies from the lightweights is not how tough they are, but how aware they are.

It's easy to forget, there is a difference between self-defense and training for self-defense. What we are about to say applies to self-defense– not training.

Don't believe everything you think.