Quotes About Awareness

All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh.

If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine gun unit, that's a very tricky business. We've got to know his background... I'm saying these things because they are real, and if I don't think that, and I think even if today the Prime Minister doesn't think carefully about this, I and my family could have a tragedy.

It was the first time I had left Singapore to go overseas. I was being exposed to a new world of the hates and loves, the prejudices and biases of different peoples

In one second of time, the conscious mind utilizes two thousand neurons. In the same second, you subconscious mind utilizes four billion neurons

You can only have one thought at a time- make it a good one.

Social psychology stands at the intersection between our eyes and the world in front of us, and helps us understand the difference between what we think we see and what is actually out there.

We grow up with white images all the time, in TV, in movies, in books. It's everywhere; you can't get around it. The white world surrounds us. What do white people see of black people? Look at the shit they have us do in movies: "Right on, jive turkey!"

I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.

It has occurred to me since that perhaps what we call depression isn't really a disorder at all but, like physical pain, an alarm of sorts, alerting us that something is undoubtedly wrong; that perhaps it is time to stop, take a time out, take as long as it takes, and attend to the unaddressed business of filing our souls.

You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.

Women are so sensitive, darling. They have to be. They have to be aware what a man wants, what their children want. They have antennae all over them, whiskers of feeling. And unfortunately that has a down side. It means they get hurt.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

Our Reason walks with weary, bruiséd feet. But Intuition soars with wings complete. The conscious mind is not so much the man As that subconscious force that knows Life's plan.

Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.

Whether it was the stimulus of the radio, or simply that he was growing up, or both, he saw everything about him in a new way, as though he had managed to get a little distance off so that his sight wasn't blurred by being too close.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30

I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, 'I really want to be part of that ' but not realizing what that was.

There are two kinds of people in this life: Those who walk into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' And those who walk in and say, 'Ahh, there you are.

All my life I had been living. How to imagine any other state?

Death is an inevitability, isn't it? You become more aware of that when you get to my age. I don't worry about it. I'm ready for it. When I go, I want to go doing what I do best. If I died tomorrow, I couldn't complain. It's been good.

One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him.

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.