Quotes About Awareness

Only through the personal awareness and "inward conviction" that we each have of our own freedom, Kissinger concluded.

There's a time to wink as well as to see 

Thoughts are thoughts and that's all they are.

Eyewitness News' is a clever plot to convince us that all the important events are happening somewhere else, to other people, at the same time we're literally dying in our beds.

You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.

Who were all these people, so many of them so brown? What was this ritual unfolding around him? I've never seen a German look as German as Clark did when he assessed his likely assessors. His eyes were like small blue coins behind his glasses.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

For the most part we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see. In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture.

We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.

It wasn't that I missed my daughter but rather that I felt her absence. It occurred to me this gentle awareness was not as painful as but even deeper than heartache.

Same thing's wrong with all men," the white woman said in a husky voice. "Thinkin' about a woman's butt and then wonderin' why they got shit for brains.

The question is,' John added, 'if a person inside a culture has no knowledge of his place in the unfolding of that culture, or in the history of any other people, and if no one else among either the oppressors or the oppressed has that knowledge, can that person be said to be alive? Indeed on what plane could he possibly exist except as chattel where he is a slave or not?

He use' to play till the cock crowed, but that ole cock don't crow nearly so much no mo'.

Most Americans wouldn't understand why two well-dressed men would have to explain why they were standing on a public street. But most Americans cannot comprehend the scrutiny that black people have been under since the days we were dragged here in bondage.

I had forgotten that Death was watching from all sides; that it comes at you from the place you least expect.

as well as in our own thoughts—the way one realization will suddenly overwhelm everything else, to be, in turn, replaced by yet another.

So it seems to me that our rate of blinking is somehow geared more to our emotional state and to the nature and frequency of our thoughts than to the atmospheric environment we happen to find ourselves in.

the blink is either something that helps an internal separation of thought to take place, or it is an involuntary reflex accompanying the mental separation that is taking place anyway.

Few people know how much you have to know in order to know how little you know.

The moment you find yourself working alone with your own ego, stop working, for the emotions of your sensed body are making you aware of it and your work will not be enduring without the Light of your Soul in it. Physical emotions immediately smother spiritual inspirations.

In order for the postmodern worldview to emerge fully and mature, it needs, among other things, a better sense of history—an idea of what it is the human species has found out about itself in recent centuries, and what effects that discovery has had on us. It is not hard to find some of that in the public record. The postmodern worldview has been a long time in coming. And in recent decades it has been anything but shy about proclaiming its imminent arrival.

There's joy all around, if you only look for it.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Charlie's dictum: "All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there.