Quotes About Awareness

Sen yan?lm??s?n babac???m. Beni de yan?ltt?n. Sessiz faziletlerin heykeli dikilmiyor. Daha ba?ka ölçüler var; daha do?rusu her zaman varm?? da biz bilmiyormu?uz Özellikle ülkemizde durum böyle.

Neden baz? insanlar, baz? ?eyleri hiç bilmiyorlar? Duysalar, dinleseler, hatta kar??lar?nda görseler bile bilmiyorlar.

Seni tan?madan önce a?açlar?n çiçek açt??? ve yaprak döktü?ü mevsimleri hep kaç?r?rd?m derdi. Resim yapmay? sevdi?im halde denizin mavisini bilmezdim, yapra??n ye?ilinin her mevsimde de?i?ti?ine dikkat etmemi?tim...

Hay?r, ben de biliyorum; ama bak O?uz, sen de ötekiler gibi bu 'badire'yi kolayca atlatsayd?n, bu haks?zl???n ac?s?n? çekmeseydin, bu mektepte olup bitenleri unutup gidecektin. Art?k bu haks?zl?klar bir daha akl?ndan ç?kmaz. Bunlar haf?zana öyle bir yerle?ir ki, günün birinde haks?zl?klar? ortadan kald?rmak için belki harekete bile geçersin.

Her hareketin anlam? var. ?nsan, benim gibi hareketten vazgeçerse, bu anlamlar? daha iyi hissediyor.

Hiçbir zaman, olmamak ile olmak aras?ndaki kesin geçi?i görememi?imdir. (Güne?in tam do?du?u, yapra??n tam açt??? zaman;benim, bir ?eyi ilk dü?ündü?üm an.)

Bu kadar yak?n?mda oldu?unu bilmiyordum ama, sen bir yerde var olursan ya?ayabilirim ancak demi?tim.

there is no moment more precious than the exact moment you are living now

There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.

There is no moment more precious than the exact moment they are living. And that exact moment has a lot to do with how future moments play out.

These things frighten people. It's best not to talk about them." "But, Dad, that's like … like ignoring a fire in the living room because we're all in the kitchen, and, besides, house fires are too scary to talk about.

We'll have to be very careful how we allow our needs to shape us.

I'm still learning how dogged people can be in denial, even when their freedom or their lives are at stake.

nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence

He led the way past the main house away from the slave cabins and other buildings, away from the small slave children who chased each other and shouted and didn't understand yet that they were slaves.

but it took a plague to make some of the people realize that things could change.

I want you to be serious. I realize I don't know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.

Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

The thing is, we hear gunfire so much that we don't hear it.

We caused the problems: then we sat and watched as they grew into crises.

to be aware of a place where blackness was not a mark of slavery.

It's too easy to follow bad but attractive leaders, embrace pleasurable but destructive habits, ignore looming disaster because maybe it won't happen after all—or maybe it will only happen to other people. That kind of thinking is part of what it means to be adolescent.

Earthseed Cast on new ground Must first perceive That it knows nothing.

How many people, I wonder, can be penned up and tormented—reeducated—before it begins to matter to the majority of Americans? How does this penning people up look to other countries? Do they know? Would they care? There are worse things happening here in the States and elsewhere, I know.