Quotes About Awareness

The power of fantasy is that you can make people understand the deeper realities of our world in a way that they wouldn't normally be able to because of all the things in our world that closes them off.

The universe is within us. We forget that and make up realities for ourselves that we are small and insignificant. Meditation brings us back to our natural state of consciousness.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

We need realism to deal with reality.

Attention is what steers your perceptions; it's what controls your reality. It's the gateway to the mind.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

I don't think I ever really thought I was good-looking.

Growing up, cancer was one of those things that I heard other people talk about. The word scared me, but I always thought, 'Thank goodness I don't have to worry about that.' Then, in 1998, I lost my father to cancer.

Suddenly I turned 65 and realized, 'Oh my goodness, I'm old.' I think it was when I got into the movie theatres cheaper.

My dad and my brother have Google alerts out on me.

Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert.

You wish that everyone knew what cisgender meant. Everyone has access to Google. You can find out what's appropriate to ask a trans person.

There's a powerful appeal in the 'I didn't know that' effect. I love it when people say, 'Gosh, I didn't know that.'

We all need to be conscious of what news we take as gospel. And we need to maybe be a little bit sceptical about what we digest.

I was exposed to jazz and blues and gospel and country music and rock, and I was the only kid I knew who knew about that stuff.

You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.

You gotta appreciate every day!

I've always had this sense of justice - I get that from my mom, for sure. When you see stuff that's wrong, it's just wrong, man. You gotta point that out.

I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done.

Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.

We should be looking at the bigger picture. It's all very well going around driving our Priuses, but we have to look to our governments to make us less reliant on oil.