Quotes About Awareness

The United States has about 13 million children living in poverty. Of those, about 2 million may live in "extreme poverty" by global definitions (in households earning less than about $2 per person per day), when looking at their cash incomes. These kids would be considered extremely poor if they lived in Congo or Bangladesh, yet they're here in the United States.

four appalling realities of daily life: maternal mortality, human trafficking

Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.

You must learn to question everything. To wait before moving, to look before stepping, and to observe everything

Like so many other would-be students of the mind, I had gone to sea to see the world, only to discover that all I was seeing was sea. Not even that: I was down below decks, studying the engine room of mental life, with no clear sense of where the ship was steering.

Remember, the point of doing this [personality inquiry] is not to pigeonhole yourself with a four-letter type but to get clear on important aspects of your makeup--your personal blueprint. Use this inquiry as a mirror to see yourself more clearly, Don't accept the results as truth. Use them to find clues,

How can you even think of food after what you have just witnessed?' 'It is because of what I have witnessed that I find it crossing my mind. Food is one of the principal means by which death is avoided.' - from Nicholas Meyer's "West End Horror" (dialogue tags removed for ease of reading)

Selfhood is a heavy, hardly translucent medium, which cuts off most of the light of reality and distorts what little it permits to pass.' This is Huxley's central notion [of Grey Eminence], that we should 'stand out of our own light' in order to see the eternal truths.

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

In order for you to improve as a runner, a truce must be declared. In order for a truce to be declared, the conscious mind must comprehend what's going on in the subconscious mind.

What's your heart telling you to do? I don't know.' Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.

the present is all that you ever have in life, and that these moments of magic are too precious to be ignored because you're too busy thinking about the next thing.

Never choose a man while under the influence of chemicals that mess with your brain, my friends. Never.

I can see why people don't want to talk about it. But the problem if you don't is that people forget, and if people forget then the whole thing can happen again.

Anyone can talk,' she said, 'but the cleverest people spend their time listening.' And that really pleased me. It provided me with an identity, a sort of camouflage, so I could sit and listen to you all and not get noticed an not be judged for not saying anything.

Something about being overwhelmed, just momentarily, by the beauty of existence.

Do you hear what I hear, babe? Does it make you feel afraid?

Buddy, you've been warned.

readers rarely accept arguments that challenge their interests. Even if they acknowledge at some level that there may be truth in what you say, they will blank out the unwelcome knowledge.

It never occurred to Brown that a genocide comparable to Rwanda had taken place in Darfur in western Sudan in 2003, and the wired world had done nothing to stop it.

We start out knowing all the answers, and in the end we realize how little we know. Just the important things. And by that time… no one listens anymore. Hang

The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing.

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place.  I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family.  But no one is offering any clear information.