Quotes About Awareness

The tires catch, the truck moves off, and for an instant there is a hole of quiet, a pocket of air without any noise, before the call of radios and televisions and bees and wind rushes in to fill my ears.

There's something about her that reminds me of Ellen, but then I realize that it's Ellen who's reminded me of Annabelle. Ellen is dim in comparison.

This is one of the principal reasons people seek out spiritual teachers. They figure there is more to most things than meets the eye.

Looking back, I see now that I accepted as normal the toxic gridlock and learned helplessness our political system teaches.

People get it wrong and think it's about being good enough, when in reality it's about being lost and not knowing it.

Those who still think that listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

American history hugs colorblindness. If you can't see race you certainly can't see racial responsibility. You can simply remain blind to your own advantages.

That is because Donald Trump is the literal face of white innocence without consciousness, white privilege without apology. Each

To this day my grandson is worried every time he sees a cop. He fears the cops will try to arrest him and his father. He can't understand why the color of his skin is a reason to be targeted by the police. Mosi is only seven years old.

One of the greatest privileges of whiteness is not to see color, not to see race, and not to pay a price for ignoring it, except, of course, when you're called on it.

As we watched more carefully, we began to notice who was marching. The protesters included some

Whites must understand that they benefit from white privilege in order to realize how white privilege creates the space for black oppression.

The failure to see color only benefits white America. A world without color is a world without racial debt.

And there is a paradox that many of you refuse to see: to get to a point where race won't make a difference, we have to wrestle, first, with the difference that race makes.

What I ask my white students to do, and what I ask of you, my dear friends, is to try, the best you can, to surrender your innocence, to reject the willful denial of history and to live fully in our complicated present with all of the discomfort it brings. Many

Do not refer to your toy-books, and say you have seen that before. Answer me rather, if I ask you, have you understood it before?

Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man

I'm not used to seeing people's faces. There's too much information there. Aren't you aware of it? Too much, too fast.

Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.

The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize," she said. "The idea that there's somewhere we have got to get to, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

The Indian writer Jiddu Krishnamurti has been quoted as saying, "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Solitude bestows an increase in something valuable. I can't dismiss that idea. Solitude increased my perception. But here's