Quotes About Awareness

Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

What's the reality of being inside a zoo, for the animals and for the people who love and care for those animals? There's a lot of joy, and there's a lot of loss.

When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.

I've visited Lincoln Park Zoo more times than I can count because I believe the more the public learns about our animals, plants and environment, the better equipped we are to play a leading role in protecting our planet.

We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face.

It wasn't until a few years ago, when I was going through old Facebook pictures with a friend, and happened upon a photo of a monkey at a zoo that had been tagged as me by an old housemate, that I realized I'd normalized so much racism.

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

Somehow, when we no longer feel in control, we become available to deeper aliveness.

If you can't help it, don't think about it.

Remember that the Devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand different ways

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!