Quotes About Awareness

If you are observationally "challenged," do not despair. You can overcome your weakness in this area if you are willing to devote time and effort to observing your world more conscientiously.

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T]hose who refuse to consider what they do are cloaked in the shadow of stupidity, but they enjoy the shade. It is cool and comfortable there.

You can be the best worker, the smartest in your field, a person who has won awards for your dedication and excellence—but if you don't somehow let people know about your talents, they won't ever call you or ask for your help.

I simply allowed myself to be guided by whatever feeling was welling up and directing me.

Confusion is that wonderful state right before clarity.

When you focus on the peace behind the problem, you begin to clean up the perceptions creating and attracting the problem.

In our present toxic food environment, many have lost the ability to connect with the body signals

True hunger is felt in the throat, neck, and mouth, not in the stomach or head. It

So though we should maintain adequate intake of DHA, B12, zinc, iodine, and Vitamin D, we should also be aware that taking too much can also be harmful.

when you see the words partially hydrogenated on the side of a box, consider what's inside poisonous and throw it in the trash.

We are losing the war on cancer because we are on an incessant search for the impossible-to-find cure, when in fact removing the causes is the only way to win.

Only later, when it may be too late, do we realize that in fact we have made things worse.

People know less about nutrition than any other subject.

Most Americans are not aware that the diet they feed their children guarantees a high cancer probability down the road.13 They don't even contemplate that eating fast-food meals may be just as risky (or more so) as letting their children smoke cigarettes.14

You must start protecting yourself today, not after you find out you have cancer. Cancer is much more preventable than treatable. Instead, many try to dig a well after their house is on fire.

Every day when I wake up and head out for chores, I'm struck by the beauty we enjoy on our farm. Based on visitors' comments, that's a shared awareness. Not one of our doors has a skull and crossbones. We want visitors to be struck not by what we've done, but rather by how we've caressed this beautiful niche of God's creation into a productive and profoundly inspiring place.

Intuitively we all know that nothing operates most efficiently at full throttle. Is it any wonder that a food system predicated on faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper would create an ignorant, duplicitous, harried, obese citizenry? A culture's people carry in their heads and physiques the manifestation of the food system's objectives.

It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome. Nevertheless, there can be but few of us who had never known one of these rare moments of awakening when we see, hear, understand ever so much - everything - in a flash - before we fall back again into our agreeable somnolence.

One looks at death, always moves toward it, but until the last denies its existence.

I never saw the face of Cobbett...I should not know him if I met him in my porridge dish.

Imagination need not stand as an obstacle to clear-sighted perception; on the contrary, it can be a prerequisite for recognition of the less obvious aspects of what is really there.

Parents who have no time to build friendships with their children, have already ended up exposing them to many sexual practices.

Every friend is different. When you come close to people in friendship, try to know who they are before you attempt to impact their lives.