“For 30 years I have used my platform in provocative ways to encourage a healthy dialogue about important issues, including HIV/AIDS, war, and homelessness. I'm well aware of the risks that come with this approach, and if this encourages further awareness and discussion about critical issues then all-the-better.” IfsWayYearsWellsImportantWarUsedIssuesRiskAwarenessHealthyApproachIncludingCriticalAidsDialogueDiscussionPlatformsHomelessnessHivProvocativeImportant IssuesHiv Aids Author:Kenneth Cole
“This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe.” FirstsKindForceRiskAwarenessFirst TimeTablesFilledInsanityAweGamblingPulseGambleFrantic Author:Paul Auster
“We all have within us a deep sense of what we need, and what is right and true for us. To access this we need to pay attention to our feelings and our intuition. We need to learn to listen deeply to ourselves and to trust what we hear. And we need to risk acting on what we feel to be true. Even if we make mistakes, we must do this in order to learn and grow.” IfsNeedsFeelsFeelingsOrderGrowsPayActingAttentionMistakeRiskAwarenessIntuitionAccessBeing TruePay AttentionMaking MistakesWe Make Mistakes Book:Creating True Prosperity Source: Creating True Prosperity
“Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and to ensure they have access to legal services and redress through the courts.” PeopleHelpingRightsRiskAwarenessRaisesCourtAccessHivCivil SocietyRedress Author:Shereen El Feki
“If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality - where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material.” IfsMayRealitySpiritualMeditationRiskAwarenessMaterialsPureEssentialsInsightAccidentsMakersFreakDefiningSpiritual Experience Author:Deepak Chopra
“We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.” PeopleNeedsRiskAwarenessPaintingClimateClimate Change Author:Bill Gates
“No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn't know you were feeling. It's risky to let that happen. But it's a risk you have to take-because only then will you find you're not alone.” PeopleKnowsWayMatterHelpingFeelingsHappensEmotionRiskAwarenessCircumstancesConnectionsUniversalNo Matter WhatWho We AreNot AloneFeelings And Emotions Author:Josh Groban
“He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. While he gropingly forms his own life in the frail image of a true existence, he should never forget its frailty, nor how little the image is a substitute for true life. Against such awareness, however, pulls the momentum of the bourgeois within him.” ShouldBelieveLittlesRunningFormInterestForgetExistenceRiskAwarenessIdeologyNever ForgetSubstitutesMomentumCritiqueBourgeoisFrailFrailtyTrue LifeAloof Book:Essays on Music Source: Essays on Music
“In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her unscheduled departure form Villette my telling that particular lie will not be required. The majority of people who attempt suicide repeat that attempt until they succeed. I took a risk in lying to her about her condition, i decided to test the only remedy i have come to have any faith in: awareness of life. Until she finds out from some other doctor that she is perfectly healthy. She'll consider each day a miracle. Which in my view it is.” PeopleHeartLightFormLyingViewsRiskConditionsAwarenessParticularHealthySucceedDecidedDoctorsTestsMiracleSuicideMajorityRepeatsEach DayRemedyDepartureInjectionVilletteAwareness Of Life Author:Paulo Coelho