Quotes About Awareness

Right Now" is the only moment of truth, for the past gives us an identity while the future holds only the promises, but both "Past" and "Future" are nothing but illusions. So enjoy the present, and especially this moment "Right Now" fully and totally to create better "Past" and wonderful "Future.

Thank God everyday, for being able to see, feel, and enjoy each moment. In my view 'Now' is the present from God, and that's why we call it as the "Present." Thank You, God Almighty!

The only way you may be able to understand the world, is by turning away from her.....and that's a perplexing paradox!

The reason evil can triumph is because the good people either do nothing or turn a blind eye. Thus the serious threat to the Peace in our world is coming from not only the evil people but also from the good people who opt to do nothing.

There're only two kinds of people in this world- those who think that there are two kinds of people, and those who know the truth.

Three wise monkeys who teach to 'speak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil' signify refraining totally from evil, yet they also represent 'good people' who do nothing about evil, feign ignorance, and turn a blind eye to misappropriate behaviors. It's possible that evil won't prevail in the society, if good people stop to stand by, and take positive steps to stand up and be counted.

To be in sync with the real world, we must grow inside out, and our only true guide during our growth is our own mind guiding us on the path to enlightenment.

We seldom see the world as it is; but we often see the world as we are.

Your body is only a garment chosen and worn by your Soul. Have no doubts, but some day your Soul will discard it, and exchange it for a new garment, just like you change your shirts, my friend. Don't fall in love with that temporary garment, and get acquainted with its owner, your Soul.

But it felt as though someone were watching us.

Individuals who have come to recognize and own their biased beliefs and prejudices, their roles in perpetuating racism, the pain their obliviousness has inflicted on people of color, and their privileged and advantaged position in society may feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of the problem.

feelings should not be denied, avoided, or suppressed. Rather, the effective facilitator should help others to make sense of them—what do they mean and say about the person? This is a two-prong approach that involves the ability to monitor and attribute meaning to one's own feelings and those of the trainees.

Last, it is clear that color blindness may be seen as part of a strategy to internally combat recognition of implicitly held biases.

seems to be that at some level of consciousness, Whites realize that they have lived lies of self-deception and that they do hold responsibility for the current oppression of people of color in the United States, whether through action or inaction (Helms, 1992; Spanierman, Poteat, Beer & Armstrong, 2006; Tatum, 1992).

one of the greatest barriers to race talk for many White Americans: the invisibility of their Whiteness (Bell, 2003; Helms, 1992; Spanierman, Poteat, Beer, & Armstrong, 2006; Tatum, 1992; Todd & Abrams, 2011).

most people seldom think about the air that surrounds them, and how it provides an essential life-giving ingredient, oxygen. We take it for granted because it is plentiful in our everyday lives; only when we are deprived of it, does it suddenly become frighteningly apparent. Whiteness is transparent precisely because of its everyday occurrence, its institutionalized normative features in U.S. culture, and because Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, average, and ideal.

A fish in water, for example, requires oxygen for survival. However, the medium to deliver it must be water, not air. The atmosphere that symbolically represents White culture is quite noticeable to people of color, and while nurturing to White Euro-Americans, it may prove less than healthy for people of color.

To understand the dilemma faced by people of color in race talk we must first become aware of (a) the situational context of oppression that they live under, (b) the ensuing psychological costs associated with racism, and (c) the negative personal and group consequences for breaking their silence.

The irrational sense of entitlement is a dominant feature of White privilege (McIntosh, 2002).

Many White Americans, however, have distorted and or conveniently used color blindness as a means of color denial or, more accurately, power denial (Neville, Awad, Brooks, Flores, & Bluemel, 2013). An understanding of White privilege ultimately unmasks a dirty secret kept hidden by White Americans: Much of what they have attained is unearned, and even if they are not overtly racist, Whites cannot choose to relinquish benefits from it.

experimenters concluded that people tend to mispredict their affective and behavioral responses to racism. They actually seem to respond with indifference. The investigators suggested that despite public condemnation of racism and increasing awareness of its negative impact on people of color, well-intentioned Whites are disinclined to enforce egalitarian norms because of the cognitive and emotional toll required to do so.

appears that strong personal, institutional, and cultural forces work against antiracist actions on the part of White Americans who become liberated and aware of the dynamics of racism and Whiteness.

The inability to see how the assumptions and biased practices exist in one's own beliefs and behaviors allows Whites to operate in a vacuum of naïveté and innocence that distances them from responsibility or the knowledge that their unawareness fosters complicity in the inequities of our society.

most people, including Whites, perceive racial relationships as binary: Black–White only (Pew Research Center, 2012). So, when matters of prejudice or discrimination are brought up for discussion, other groups of color, such as Asian Americans, Latina/o Americans, and Native Americans, often feel left out of the dialogue and rendered invisible (B. S. K. Kim, 2011; Takaki, 1998).