Quotes About Awareness

A person can have very sincere anti-racist beliefs but still have implicit biases that result in racist comments or actions.

Every right decision I've ever made has come from my gut, and every wrong decision I've ever made was a result of me not listening.

There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

what you focus on expands. When you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear and then recognize them.

Oprah: Meaning, to stand in the I. Mindy: Stand in the I.

We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.

En realidad nadie sabe que está viviendo el momento más feliz de su vida mientras lo vive.

You'll learn it all soon enough . . . You will see everything without being seen. You will hear everything but pretend that you haven't . . . You will walk for ten hours a day but feel like you haven't walked at all.

It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it. Had I known, had I cherished this gift, would everything have turned out differently?

It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one knew who was dead or who was celebrating what - but an archipelago of neighbourhoods in which everyone knew each other.

To know is to remember that you've seen.To see is to know without remembering. Thus painting is remembering the blackness.

no one recognises the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it

Mevlut cinselliÄŸin ancak beklemekle, beklemekle gerçekleÅŸecek bir mucize olduÄŸunu on beÅŸ ya??nda böyle anlad?

YaÅŸad???m?z hayat?n bir baÅŸkas?n?n düÅŸü olduÄŸunu kan?tlaman?n hiçbir ÅŸeyi deÄŸiÅŸtirmeyeceÄŸini biliyordum art?k.

Hayat?m?n en mutlu an?ym??, bilmiyordum. [...] Herkes bilsin, çok mutlu bir hayat yaÅŸad?m.

At that moment, I wished my whole consciousness could be erased. I wanted to escape from my own awareness, to wander freely in a world outside my mind, but understanding now that I would always be two people, I realized that I'd never be able to let go.

Creíamos saber mucho, pero no sabíamos nada.

Drve?e ne zna da je drve?e.

Za nas je otkucaj sata, baš kao žuvor šadrvana u dvorištu džamije, odjek zakora?enja u ono što je u nama, a ne zvuk percepcije onoga što je oko nas.

El significado de los colores es que están ante nosotros y podemos verlos - le contestó el otro -. No se puede explicar el rojo a quien no lo ha visto.

People don't know when they're happy, at least not while it's going on.

Zaman, bilindiÄŸi üzere, bazen kuÅŸ gibi gider, bazen sümüklü böcek gibi ilerler; ama insan?n en çok hoÅŸland??? onun çabuk mu yavaÅŸ m? geçtiÄŸini farketmemesidir.

Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to say that the fury owed nothing to my partial awareness that she was right.