Quotes About Awareness

I don't need to do more smart things. I just need to do fewer dumb things. I need to avoid making emotional decisions and swinging at bad pitches. I need to think!

There are no secrets . . . just stuff you haven't learned yet.)

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

The mime must first of all be aware of this boundless contact with things. There is no insulating layer of air between the man and the outside world. Any man who moves causes ripples in the ambient word in the same way a fish does when it moves in the water.

Perhaps George Santayana's famous aphorism that 'those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it' should be reversed – that is, it is because we remember the past that we are condemned to repeat it. The depressing re-emergence of national hatreds in the last

Much spiritual self-help today fails because the focus remains exclusively on the self How can I grow? How can I experience God more fully? How can I access the power of the Holy Spirit? How can I develop my faith? All of these are limited questions that lead to disappointment because they do not focus on God. The unison voice of the classical spiritual teachers recounts that spiritual growth always begins with an awareness of the character and nature of God. God starts the process; we respond.

The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I do not know'. The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything.

The world tells us what we need to know when we are ready to know it and not before. That's the way of things.

The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I don't know'. The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything.

Il mondo ci dice ciò che abbiamo bisogno di sapere nel momento in cui siamo pronti a saperlo, e non prima. Questa è la via delle cose

We know the minute he's going plastic. Shit, Charlie and I have been watching that ass for forty-odd years; we know when the moneymaker's shaking and when it's being told what to do.

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie?

To hear a White person remark, whether in earnest or jest, about Black men's sexual prowess or Black women's sexual promiscuity is not an uncommon experience for most Black people.

Yoga is the mastery of the mind's fluctuations.

Concentration is uniting the mind with one place, object, or idea for spiritual awakening.

Both of these students- both high school seniors both old enough to vote in the upcoming election- thought 'Al' Qaeda was a person. At that time the United States had been at war for five and a half years and here were two students two young adults leaving the educational system who had never heard of al Qaeda. Both by the way had passed the multiple-choice reading section of the state's high school exit exam.

The real quality of existence lies in our thoughts, which wear no silks and taste no ice creams.

it's all about where your minds at

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.

He was aware of the pulse in her wrist, warm against the heel of his palm. He was aware of his desire, taking him by the throat.

Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

It's hard to put a foot in a shut mouth.