Quotes About Awareness

Awareness without action is worthless.

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

Ancient people, we don't just need to find out what things they made, how they lived. We need to see through their eyes, sense what they sensed… aware that their senses would have been much sharper than ours… accepting that they might well have been aware of things we no longer perceive.

It was the way things were going. People realizing how little time they had left to get rich before the planet melted.

That on any day you could pick there are thousands and thousands of little deaths, tiny tragedies, and that all of them matter.

You've learned by now to wait without waiting; as if it were dusk look into light falling: in deep relief things even out. Be careless of nothing. See what you see. from "How to See Deer

If you wish to view this as a cautionary tale, be my guest.

It takes years to learn how to steal, to use the cover of night. It's not easy. You have to practice it. And you need someone who knows what they're doing to teach you. You've got to be aware of everything at once. And you always have to be careful about making noise. You've got to learn to move without noise.

The Ramirezes first realized Richard was epileptic when he had an attack in the fifth grade.

We in the West are accustomed to thinking that humans are all basically the same underneath our different cultural clothing, that the concerns the middle class struggles with in contemporary society are at bottom the same concerns with which all other classes societies and cultures struggle. To glimpse the possibility that that is not so comes as an unwelcome surprise.

I recommend you take care of the minutes: for hours take care of themselves

As Alexander would confess years later, sex and sleep more than anything else reminded him that he was mortal. One

While 76 per cent of Americans said they watched, read or heard the news on a daily basis, only 41 per cent said they went beyond the headlines.4 So there's this potential illusion of knowing. It is the danger of having a superficial level of knowledge about anything, but believing you know everything.

recognizing the early signs of toxicity in our leaders can enable us to take preventive medicine, not passively imbibe their seductive poison.33

The psychological term for this process is "construal," which refers to the way that each of us understands and explains the world. Once

One of Allen Ginsberg's T-shirts said, "Well, while I'm here, I'll do the work. And what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.

Contemporary materialism is not a solution but a stubborn refusal to face up to the problem.

Sometimes we come to gratitude too late. It's only after blessing has passed on that we realize what we had.

If you don't say anything it can't become important, but if you say it everyone's ever after got to walk round it like a pile of rocks in the living room.

You cannot not know history.

La sabiduria consiste en saber cuando evitar al perfeccion

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.