Quotes About Awareness

We do not perceive things directly but perceive rather our thoughts about things. And these stories and perceptions, when accompanied by powerful emotions, can dramatically color our experiences.

Clinging to a problem does not make it disappear, but rather just makes it worse, aggravating the problem and leading to frustration and anger in relation to the problem and even in relation to ourselves.

Para que no se me olviden las lesbianas. / So that I don't forget the lesbians.

She bent her chin to her chest. She mumbled something I did not catch. It sounded like, "Shame on us all for not having stopped it.

Jesus said, "The kingdom of the [father] is like a certain woman who was carrying a [jar] full of meal. While she was walking [on the] road, still some distance from home, the handle of the jar broke and the meal emptied out behind her [on] the road. She did not realize it; she had noticed no accident. When she reached her house she set the jar down and found it empty.

The nature of one's own consciousness is the same as the nature of God and Godhead and, therefore, to know God, one must seek to know oneself.

Nothing shatters the reality of our good intentions like reality.

Maybe that's what innocence is, having no way to predict the pain of the future.

The truth is a strange thing. Like pornography, you know it when you see it.

living here, you don't know anything about white people. Where I'm from, everything is mixed. In Atlanta, at least out here where we stay at, everything is so black that y'all don't know what it feels like to be black.

Then, I didn't know that our bodies can know things before they happen, so when my eyes suddenly filled with tears, I thought this was the unpredictable effect of emotion.

When I saw you, I was looking into your face, but I didn't really see you. I don't have the right words to explain.

I had been in kindergarten when I figured out that I wasn't pretty. That is the worst thing about being a little kid; nobody is shy about letting you know these things.

knew that things like this happen to people, but by people, I didn't mean us.

she was like a different person, deeper and broader, like she perceived something about life and death and love that I have the luxury of not knowing yet.

She also wondered why she wasn't able to care more about the important things happening in the world. There was the Vietnam War. She knew boys who had died, and there was always Dr. King, cold in the ground. Even though Willie Mae hadn't been bitten by a dog, she had been in Birmingham when the German shepherds were let loose. And where had Mother been when all of this was going on? She was busy learning to be a wife.

And even if what you said in the article is true, about how you "want to raise consciousness about mass incarceration"—let's say this wasn't bullshit—please explain to me what a baby doll is going to do to help anybody in here.

I'm bringing this up because I knew that things like this happen to people, but by people , I didn't mean us.

Well, somebody in your situation needs to look at life like a newborn baby. Pretend like you have never been in the world before and you're waiting for it to show you what's what. Keep your head in the right now.

All this I had been a witness to ever since I opened my eyes on life, yet I had never seen the village at such a late hour of the night.

Nadie es esclavo, por muy atado y encadenado que esté, hasta que admite que lo es.

los hombres se convierten muy a menudo en esclavos de lo inmediato.

Un pueblo informado sospechará de los políticos», escribió a Ático, al que pidió una donación de libros y manuscritos para la biblioteca.

Los enamorados pueden volverse egoístas, encerrados en sí mismos, ajenos a lo que sucede a su alrededor.