Quotes About Awareness

in schools where the majority of youth report having learned about LGBT people in the curriculum, only 11% of students report being bullied, which was half the number of students who reported being bullied in schools that do not teach this history.

If the goal of higher education is, in fact, to foster a self-actualization (Maslow 1967), certain personally significant experiences must occur.

One result of turning a blind eye to the horrors of the world, because you can stand only so much, is that you end up forgetting that each individual who is subjected to heinous suffering is your fellow, your equal, and that you could have been in their shoes, and that he or she could one day have become your friend.

At times I forgot the body I wore

little life lesson 23: before making a snide comment about someone else's outfit, check to see if you're wearing knee boots with fringe. if you answer yes, drop it. just do.

You talk more when you're nervous," he said, still standing close to her. "No i don't. That's absurd. I'm just trying to explain to you-" "Do i make you nervous?" "No. I'm not nervous." "You're trembling." "I'm cold. I'm wearing practically zero clothes." His glance went to her lips, then back to her eyes. "I noticed.

Perception can make reality

Everybody knows you don't hit from behind. It's the number-one rule in hockey. We even have stop signs sewn on the back of our jerseys to remind us. More kids have gotten hurt being checked from behind than anything else in hockey.

Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.

You really shouldn't drink potions if you don't know what they do. - Aunt Polly

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

Jesus tells us in Luke 14:28 that before we undertake anything we should count the cost. Usually price is advertised, but cost is hidden.

Which jolted her to see one more thing: that they were both men. Nothing less, but also nothing more. And Clara felt a pressure that was so much a part of her she hadn't recognized its existence until that moment it suddenly dispersed.

The Empress Marie-Louise once asked me if I believed in ghosts. 'I find it hard to believe in something I've never seen,' I told her. But perhaps ghosts aren't meant to be seen. Perhaps they are meant to be felt.

But there is nothing interesting about being unprepared.

perhaps ghosts aren't meant to be seen. Perhaps they are meant to be felt.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your

Yoga is not something a person practices with music or mirrors or any other distraction. Its purpose is less about samyoga than it is about viyoga, which is to say, it is more about disconnecting than it is about connecting, which many Westerners find strange, until they hear it explained. The reason a person practices every day is to disconnect from their deep connection to suffering. The author of the ancient Yogatattva

Watching television requires less of an effort than reading newspapers and magazines, which is its greatest danger. (Chapter 12)

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. She was right, old Marie Curie.

El Bosque tenía todo lo que uno podía desear. Hasta entonces nunca se había dado cuenta de lo mucho que lo apreciaba.

If it can be described, it can be understood. If it can be understood, it need not be feared.

How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing

Torak, kijk achter je! - Renn