Quotes About Awareness

Autism has touched many families in West Virginia, including mine.

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.

When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

As people's lifestyles have improved, they've become more and more sensitive toward animals. It's becoming a universal value, like Western classical music.

I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.

There are people in our world today and unfortunately in our political system, they do not believe in evil. They have the modern, western, secular mind set. They don't believe evil exists. They are exactly the ones who are in danger of getting blindsided by evil. Because they're not prepared for it.

I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.

'Orientalism' has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of view and always see things from different perspective.

I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.

Being 'out and proud' can feel like a real luxury of Western culture, where people are often white and see existing white gay people in their culture. That's a kind of privilege people don't know they possess.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

I think being sensitive gives you powers. You get the logic and the flexibility of emotions.

I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.

We are so blessed as artists and entertainers, and we should use our powers to raise awareness of things where we can.

Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.

Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

The practice of meditation can reveal to you more of your mental capacity.

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.