Quotes About Awareness

I wondered then: what was it that started a person sinking? Was that long fall in him (or her) from the start, in us all perhaps; or something he put there himself, creating it over time and unwittingly just as he created his face, his life, the stories he lived by, the ones that let him go on living.

You're so American. You believe everything is possible, everything will come. I know differently.

There was a time, usually late in August, when summer struck the trees with dazzling power and they were rich with leaves but then became, suddenly one day, strangely still, as if in expectation and at that moment aware. They knew. Everything knew, the beetles, the frogs, the crows solemnly walking across the lawn. The sun was at its zenith and embraced the world, but it was ending, all that one loved was at risk.

The freedom she meant was self-conquest. It was not a natural state. It was meant only for those who would risk everything for it, who were aware that without it life is only appetites until the teeth are gone.

The more clearly one sees this world, the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

There comes a time when you realize everything is a dream. And only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

A veces uno es consciente de cuándo están sucediéndose los grandes momentos de su vida y a veces los descubre mirando al pasado. Tal vez suceda lo mismo con las personas.

All that's left for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.

As the pages that follow confirm, race may not be a reality, but racial thinking is, and, as such, warrants closer examination.

Fear cannot be where knowledge is

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why

Ne regardez pas en arrière avec colère, ni devant avec crainte, mais autour de vous avec conscience.

Let us not go back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from and to and why.

Does not people's preoccupation these days with drugs, alcohol, medication and self deception prove that the truth not only hurts, but it is torture to bear?

As prophetic song leaders, we should be aware that we are gifted to dispel whatever darkness is coming against our worship through our prophetic declaration. 

Not understanding their past renders many Americans incapable of thinking effectively about our present and future.

Very few adults today realize that our society has been slave much longer than it has been free.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions," Helen Keller pointed out. "Conclusions are not always pleasant.

When textbooks make racism invisible in American history, they obstruct our already poor ability to see it in the present.

Indian history is the antidote to the pious ethnocentrism of American exceptionalism, the notion that European Americans are God's chosen people. Indian history reveals that the United States and its predecessor British colonies have wrought great harm in the world. We must not forget this—not to wallow in our wrongdoing, but to understand and to learn, that we might not wreak harm again.

The Truth can set us free.