“One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing to the world or to other species.” WorldCan DoAwarenessIgnoranceEatingSpeciesIrresponsible Author:Michael Pollan
“Once you develop confidence in your own ability, you'll be able to make a real contribution to creating a better world. Self-confidence is very important. Not in the sense of blind pride, but as a realistic awareness of what you can do. As human beings we can transform ourselves by our good qualities and reducing our faults. Our intelligence enables us to judge what is good from what is harmful.” WorldHumansImportantRealSelfAbleCan DoHuman BeingsAbilityQualityAwarenessJudgingPrideConfidenceCreatingBlindFaultsIntelligenceGoodSelf ConfidenceContributionRealisticReducingGood QualitySelf TransformationSelf Efficacy Author:Dalai Lama
“Prayer power is real. By putting it into action, we will be able to stay more constantly in higher awareness than ever before. If we can do that, the world will quickly change.” IfsWorldRealAbleActionSpiritualCan DoPrayerAwarenessHigherCelestine Prophecy Author:James Redfield
“There's nothing wrong with being proud of America, believing that America can do great things. America can do great things, it has done great things. I think we have to have the self-awareness to recognize that the world is a very, very big place, that we could be a force for good things in the world, but we have to have the humility to recognize that sometimes even when we think we're acting from the best of motives our own idealism can be infected by self-interest. Other people in other countries can see it sometimes better than we can.” PeopleThinkingWorldBelieveSelfCountrySometimesDoneBigsAmericaForceInterestCan DoActingAwarenessHumilityProudSelf AwarenessGood ThingsGreat ThingsMotiveOther CountriesIdealismBe ProudSelf Interest Author:Peter Beinart
“It's really easy to play harmonics, anyone can do it. It's another thing to be able to swing, to make to make a band swing, to create a groove. Harmonics ain't everything. Being able to play harmonics certainly does not make you a good bass player. Cleverness is no substitute for true awareness.” DoePlayAbleEasyCan DoPlayerAwarenessBandSubstitutesSwingsBassClevernessGrooveBass Players Author:Jaco Pastorius
“There are the jobs you get that do something for your confidence, like "I can do this with my life" kind of thing. And then, there are the jobs that maybe bring a certain level of awareness about you as an actor where other people feel like they can hire you.” PeopleFeelsKindI CanJobsCertainActorsCan DoLevelsAwarenessI Can Do This Author:Rosemarie DeWitt
“The secret is to let the audience feel through the actress, rather than having the actress feel for the audience. When you can do that, you involved the audience almost without their knowledge or awareness.” FeelsCan DoSecretAudienceAwarenessInvolvedActresses Author:Shirley MacLaine
“Use emotional awareness and pay attention to your body - look [and locate] concrete physical sensations - like stabbing, aching, throbbing - and [distinguish and define them] by saying things like, "it is the size of a golf ball or it is the size of a baseball" - do whatever you can do to find painful physical sensations.” LooksUseBodyCan DoPayAttentionAwarenessEmotionalBaseballBallsGolfSizePainfulYour BodyPay AttentionSensationsConcreteGolf BallStabbing Author:Gary Zukav
“We're normally caught up in the current of our thinking, feelings and emotions. With awareness, we can observe it all without being swept away. This gives us access to something much vaster and deeper than our usual compressed minds. All of us can access this. It's not so difficult. With some instruction and practice, anybody can do it.” ThinkingGivingMindFeelingsDifficultCan DoEmotionPracticeAwarenessCaughtCurrentsDeeperAccessUsualInstructionCaught UpFeelings And EmotionsSwept Away Author:Tenzin Palmo
“Mindfulness is the ability to be aware, to note, to notice. When we apply that to our thoughts and mental habits, we bring a clarity of awareness in seeing what's just an ordinary thought and what's a judging thought that's pejorative or putting us down in some way. So, we first bring that lens of awareness, and then we can do all kinds of different strategies. We can inquire.” WayFirstsKindDifferentCan DoAbilitySeeingAwarenessJudgingHabitMindfulnessOrdinaryStrategyNotesAll KindsClarityOur ThoughtsLenses Author:Mark Coleman
“The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.” IfsWantInspirationalGivingTryingYearsCan DoHurtSilenceWonderKnowingWorstAwarenessGreatnessSilentPersonal DevelopmentWorst ThingsHurt FeelingsSuccessful LifeBelief In Self Author:Jim Rohn
“Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.” WorldI CanAgeVoiceCan DoFourWrittenAwarenessYouthHungerExploringLiteracyWritten WordWorld HungerRaising Awareness Author:Adora Svitak
“The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer worrying about oneself, then the fear comes for other people and, after that, for the world. There are no fearless people, only fearless moments.” PeopleWorldMomentsLightTurnsFearCan DoWorryAwarenessOneselfFearlessCan Do Something Book:Borderliners: A Novel Source: Borderliners: A Novel
“The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.” ThinkingKnowsWorldImportantEnoughCan DoRolesToo MuchAwarenessKeysKey Things Book:A Hologram for the King Source: A Hologram for the King
“The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy. Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld That awareness is my teaching. Never fight with greed, ego, anger, jealousy, hatred - all those enemies that the religions have been telling you, 'Fight with them, crush them, kill them. You cannot kill them, you cannot crush them, you cannot fight with them; all that you can do is just be aware of them.' And the moment you are aware, they are gone. In the light, the darkness simply disappears.” Has BeensMomentsLightFightingCan DoBornQualityEnemyDarknessGoneTeachingAwarenessEgoHatredMarkGreedEnvyDisappearJealousyCrushTruestGreat QualitiesYour Jealous Author:Rajneesh
“I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper.” IfsMenWantBelieveActionIndividualCan DoActingSituationAwarenessLosingFellowsPainfulFree WillTemperFellow ManReconcileAccompany Author:Albert Einstein
“According to great masters, there is no sin and there is no virtue. There is only one thing: that is awareness. If you are aware, you can do anything you want and it is not sin. If you are not aware, you may do so-called virtuous acts, but there is no virtue in them. Out of unconsciousness virtue cannot blossom. It blossoms only when you are full of light, full of love, full of consciousness.” IfsWantMayLightCan DoSinConsciousnessVirtueOne ThingAwarenessMastersVirtuousUnconsciousness Author:Rajneesh