Quotes About Awareness

No one who offers the "yes, but" rationalization actually engages in racist violence or even thinks that they are condoning it. But they are virtually guaranteeing that it will continue because what they are doing is facilitating it.

At last, some recognition that terrorist acts may at first be directed at Jews, but they never end with Jews.

The clueless antisemite is an otherwise nice and well-meaning person who is completely unaware that she has internalized antisemitic stereotypes and is perpetuating them. The only proper response, however hard it may be for you, is to politely tell this person that what she said comes under the category of an insidious and insulting ethnic stereotype.

When our children fear there is danger in openly identifying as a Jew, it is indeed something that should concern us all.

It's not so hard to figure out why I'm not sleeping. What I can't figure out is why everybody else is sleeping.

There is a wise saying that says those who forget their mistakes are doomed to repeat them.

knowledge would not necessarily serve them, nor would it make them happy. There was a chance it would instead throw light on visions they did not want to see.

He glanced drowsily at Laura and Mitchell eating their strawberries in the sunshine and found himself about to fall asleep. It was an odd sensation, 'to find himself' about to fall into sleep. As if he could find himself anywhere at any time.

Our task is not to solve enigmas, but to be aware of them, to bow our heads before them and also to prepare the eyes for never-ending delight and wonder.

Remove the Curtain of your Heart and see the Beloved sitting inside yourself. Close your Ears to the Outside and hear the Cosmic Sound going on within you. Intro to Part 2, Chapter 1. Credit given to Mira, poet-saint of Rajastan.

Conduct thyself always with the same prudence as though thou went observed by ten eyes and pointed at by ten fingers. —CONFUCIUS

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

With determined perseverance the effort eventually becomes effortless, just as eating or brushing our teeth is effortless. We learn how energy flows. After a time the exercises and ritual of meditation are no longer needed as tools for growth. They become part of us and we use them at all times. In whatever we do there is meditation in action. But we must be careful not to deceive ourselves that we are already there. This is a new evolutionary step for us and we must begin at the beginning.

Maybe they'll improve their ability to detect neurological damage. Maybe they'll be able to help someone else's baby. It's too late for Nancy, a generation too late. It's good to see people opening their eyes to this syndrome that has no name. You tend to close them until it happens to your child. There is no such thing as a child who is not worth saving.

The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you

Whatever is eating her brain consumes only the fresher memories, the unripe moments

Pân? când nu am în?eles c? ?i eu sunt muritor, nu am ?tiut ce este cu adev?rat etern

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. Bobby - Age 5

In reality we are present, we can do absolutely nothing to alter that. But we can fantasise that we are somewhere else. In fact we have evolved such ingenious devices to delude ourselves that we are absent that it is extremely difficult to switch them off.

Fear's ploy is to stop us looking at him, or indeed anything else, closely and attentively. When panic strikes it helps to remember that the simple act of paying attention is calming. In fact only attentiveness brings peace.

Toro Seduto] non riusciva a capire come gli uomini bianchi potessero essere così incuranti dei loro poveri. "L'uomo bianco sa fare tutte le cose," disse "ma non sa come distribuirle.

One of the more curious facts about human beings is that they can spend a day of introspection without discovering what is obvious to anyone who has spent a half hour in their company.

If we pay great attention to the meaning of each moment of our unique life, the meaning of life in general will attend to itself.

With every inhalation, I take. With every exhalation, I give. How grand it is not to buy, sell, hold, or hoard breath. Would that it were so with money. Enjoy breathing while you can, for unless something changes, it won't be long until government awards ownership of the atmosphere to some commercial corporation to price and meter out as they please.