“Anxiety is an extension of the dynamics of fear. It's the feeling of fear without an awareness of the object of your fear. All you know is that you're fearful, but you can't specify exactly what you are afraid of. You just worry about everything.” KnowsFeelingsWorryAwarenessObjectsAnxietyFearfulExtensionsDynamics Author:G. Frank Lawlis
“I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense, commitment, humor, tact, love, wisdom, awareness, and knowledge. At the same time, it holds the possibility for the most rewarding, joyous experience of a lifetime, namely, that of being successful guides to a new and unique human being.” WorldHumansJobsHuman BeingsCommonSuccessfulBloodAwarenessPossibilitySucceedAnxietyUniqueCommitmentUltimateRegardLifetimeComplicatedGuidesHardestCommon SenseBeing SuccessfulSweatJoyousTactLove Wisdom Book:The new peoplemaking Source: The new peoplemaking
“Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production and consumption that reduces everyone else to threat and competition.” DoeBreakAwarenessAnxietyCompetitionThreatProductionsCyclesConsumptionInvitedSabbathFrantic Author:Walter Brueggemann
“Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.” MindStatesChoicesAwarenessDemandAnxietyPerceptionState Of Mind Book:Tao of Jeet Kune Do Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“I do think there is an enhanced awareness of insecurity and vulnerability that induces anxiety that creates pressure on teachers and administrators to offer simplistic explanations and to be resistant to expressions of attitudes that can be viewed as unpatriotic, which is further interpreted as applicable to any tendency to challenge the government when it claims to be acting overseas to avoid repetitions of 9/11 or to encroach on domestic freedom to identify suspicious persons and behaviors.” ThinkingPersonsGovernmentChallengesActingAttitudeTeacherAwarenessExpressionOffersBehaviorAnxietyClaimsPressureTendenciesExplanationVulnerabilityInsecurityRepetitionSuspiciousAdministratorsUnpatriotic Author:Richard A. Falk
“Culture gives us each a sense that life has meaning and that we have value - by offering us assurances of immortality. Either literally, through the heavens, the soul's afterlives or reincarnation, or by the prospect that some vestige of ourselves will persist over time - from having kids, amassing great fortunes or producing great works of art or science. Yet no culturally constructed symbolic belief system is ever powerful enough to completely eradicate the anxiety that is engendered by the awareness of death.” GivingArtEnoughKidsValuesCultureBeliefHeavenPowerfulAwarenessAnxietyImmortalityReincarnationPersistAssuranceGreat WorkHaving Kids Author:Sheldon Solomon
“Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.” WayShouldSeemsDesireProcessGoalAwarenessPromiseAnxietyOvercomingStriveDefinitionsResolutionRespite Book:Status Anxiety Source: Status Anxiety
“Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative silence blurs and confuses our identity, and we lapse into daydreams or diffuse anxieties. Positive silence pulls us together and makes us realize who we are, who we might be, and the distance between these two.” TwoSelfMightTogetherRealizingLossSilenceAwarenessIdentityAnxietyDiscoveryNegativeDistanceSelf DiscoveryWho We AreDimensionsDaydreamingBlurLapsesUnificationRegression Book:Love and Living Source: Love and Living