Quotes About Awareness

While we sit in our air-conditioned homes and eat, drink and make merry like cattle in a feedlot without the slightest thought about the consequences of our consumption of water, food and energy, we only hasten the destruction -in the long term- of our kind.

more Australians now die of heat stress than die on the roads.

In Hermes' eyes Mankind's greatest error is that he has the power to know God and yet does not use it.

Birth is not the beginning of life — only of an individual awareness. Change into another state is not death — only the ending of this awareness.

I try to phrase criticism in the nicest possible way, but I also never lie. If people ask, I assume it's because they want to know. People are not dumb about these things; they can tell when a compliment isn't sincere.

Borrowing from cultures without understanding the fundamentals can yield some pretty weird and wholly illogical perversions.

Whether they come from Brooks Brothers or a thrift store, the sweaters we wear have a magnificent ancestry. Their history spans the worlds of Irish fishermen, French knights, World War I soldiers, busty Hollywood 'sweater girls,' and the television saint Mr. Rogers. That history lives in each garment. By being aware of it, we can better appreciate what we have.

There's no question that climate change is real.

I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.

There's no question that the best way to get people to care about an issue is to humanize it.

There's no reason people should be hungry in our country. It's not acceptable.

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

When you're being asked to think about the meaning of your intuitions before you act on them, maybe along the way you decide your intuitions are destructive or make no sense at all. And then you don't act on them.

Ricky Hatton has no sense of anticipation of what's coming his way. You can teach him all you want, but he doesn't have those instincts.

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.

If a kid disappears, now there's Amber Alerts: they know this-this-this. In the '50s, we kids wandered around. Nobody knew what you were doing.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

I'm getting guarded like nobody else in the country is being guarded, scouted on like no one else in the country is.

You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.

To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.

I don't read newspapers or watch the news on TV, deliberately to avoid the noise.

Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.