Quotes About Awareness

When urged to adhere to the international system's "rules of the game" and "responsibilities," the visceral reaction of many Chinese—including senior leaders—has been profoundly affected by the awareness that China has not participated in making the rules of the system. They are asked—and, as a matter of prudence, have agreed—to adhere to rules they had had no part in making.

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

A man always blames the woman who fooled him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how… and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

At times I was aware, while they were happening, that I was a witness to extraordinary events, and I tried to remember them as fully and as accurately as possible, with the conscious intent of recording them, should I be fortunate enough to survive the war. Such

People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.