Quotes About Awareness

What I see is a woman who is not thinking about observing life but experiencing it.

She often noticed it was only when we shared the same qualities that we recognised them in other people.

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

You enter some activist space, Tumblr, a campus group, your neighborhood cultural center. You're expected to make mistakes, but to eventually never mess up anyone's pronoun, ever, to never accidentally use the wrong vocabulary, regardless of how educated you are, self-educated or formally.

What might be the fruit of fasting stinginess? What would happen if our churches fasted spectatorship? What might occur if our families fasted accumulation? What could change if our offices fasted revisionism? What might erupt if a new generation fasted escapism? Such fasts could trigger a spiritual revolution.

more of a sojourn. A sojourn is a "temporary stay at a place."4 And a "stay" is about presence, not productivity.

The awareness of being a child of God tends to stabilize the ego and results in a new courage, fearlessness, and power.

That though passageway came with a surprising revelation. When life forces you to face yourself, what awaits in the mirror is a gift: vulnerability. Your heart is pierced. You're broken open. You're hyper-aware of what you're feeling.

The path to self-discovery is not a straight line. It's a zigzag. We move in and out of awareness: one step forward, three steps to the left, a baby step back, another leap forward. A lightbulb moment might shine brightly one day, but then flicker the next. It takes work to hold tightly to a certain consciousness, to live in its wisdom. Every day, I have to intentionally maintain an awareness of my value.

When life forces you to face yourself, what awaits in the mirror is a gift: vulnerability. Your heart is pierced. You're broken open. You're hyperaware of what you're feeling.

What did the companies know about the link between PPH and their drugs, and when did they know it?

Only half-aware of the movements of his body, she turned her head to one side and stared up at the ceiling, where she noticed a spider's web.

Before thinking about what you are going to say, think about what I am saying.

He who knows more is more responsible.

My art, my greatest art, is the skill to live within me.

Dittany hadn't lived in Lobelia Falls all her life without coming to realize that walls do in fact have ears and every little bird is a stool pigeon at heart.

That the winter snow is less deep than it was when we were children, the crabs fewer under the rocks by the shore, the birds at dawn too quiet, the forest oddly lonesome. That the weather and seasons have become strangers to us. And that we, the human species, are in one way or another responsible.

Political is personal; personal is political. I never was a political person until I realized I was a lesbian. I was this oblivious middle-class white kid who didn't understand the powers of oppression or structure or anything. My very existence became politicized for me and that's what enabled me to see all these things. It wasn't just me, it was a whole cultural movement that was also doing those things that I was a part of.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!