Quotes About Awareness

If you don't know what Gamergate is, my God, do I envy you.

Understanding listening is an epiphany moment for every improviser. At least for me it was.

We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

Parents have to be connected to their children and know what they need. When they're happy. When they're not. Discipline is only one part of the equation.

I don't have room in my mind to think about musical equipment.

I think it's impossible to be a young black male from the South, born to an era I was born in, and not have a clear sense of what race really means in the country.

When I overthink when I have the ball, that's when I make the error and get myself in trouble.

I'm against escapist entertainment.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

Listening is the essence of anything.

People hold my father in very high esteem, but what was amazing was that nobody looked at me as a woman; I was never made aware of the fact that I am a woman.

I think some people still don't really know what ethical fashion is.

If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.

Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.

I'm very aware of the fact that so many things had to break my way. I think that alone will make you very appreciative of every opportunity.

I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.

If somebody asks me what enlightenment is, I say that it is simply recovering conscience.

Conscience is the absolute truthfulness perceived, which comes from Nothing, our true nature, and as such reflects things exactly the way they are.

When we look at something, we are often not aware of who is perceiving, and unaware of the mental-emotional filter created by past experiences, hopes and expectations.

The shift of awareness is most important key to the road of peace. Peace sought by single nation or religion will inevitably generate conflict. Only peace centered on encompassing the whole Earth can lead us to the "promised land" of ancient wisdom.

If you live your life habitually, just letting day after day flow on by, then you cannot say that you have genuinely lived your life.

I had thought so once That it was I who saw in your eyes The raindrops pinging on the windows; Hearing only with ears The stars and the rain; Now that I truly open my eyes and ears I realize that I am myself the stars and the rain.

feel your connection with the Source of life through a simple touch of your belly button.

The eye of Ego to the eye of Tao