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“We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.”

Kind Reality Views Awareness Taught Buddhism Perception Direct Perceive Substitutes Perception Reality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.”

Knows Self Pleasure Awareness Taught Taste Self Awareness Hungry Contentment Better Life I Am Thankful

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are.”

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger or wanton aggression. A practitioner is taught from the outset that the skills must never be used for personal gain, but only in self-defence or in the protection of others -- and even then only enough force as is absolutely necessary should be used.”

Should Mind Art Self Enough Form Used Force Awareness Taught Pure Skills Demand Gains Protection Intense Martial Arts Aggression Defence Wanton Self Defence Personal Gain

Author:David Fontana

“one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that because we are materially richer we must be emulated without question? What compels us to infect everyone else with our own sick urgency to change, soften and standardise? How can we have the effrontery to lord it over peoples who retain what we have lost - a sane awareness that what matters most is immeasurable?”

Feels Matter Lost Race Lord Awareness Taught Sick Western Guilty Damage Sane What Matters Behalf Urgency Civilisation

Author:Dervla Murphy

“To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.”

Source: A Dark Time in America

“Any musician with a slight level of self-awareness can be taught to write a 'good' song. A great song is completely original. It feels as if the performer is the only person who could bring it to life.”

Ifs Feels Writing Persons Self Song Levels Awareness Taught Musician Originals Self Awareness Performers

Author:Greta Salpeter

“I was always taught that anybody and everything is worth spending time and interest on and there's no reason to pass over anything. So it led me in a route that was just hyper awareness of human beings and care and love. So it's made me at least more open to trying anything, doing everything and experiencing all that I can in this little bit of life that we have.”

Trying Humans Littles Made I Can Reason Care Bits Interest Human Beings Awareness Taught Little Bit And Love Spending No Reason Routes Spending Time Hyper

Author:Charlie Barnett

“You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.”

People Persons Facts Learning Influence Teaching Awareness Taught Inspirational Life Influential Influencing People Dilbert Influential People Influential Person

Author:Scott Adams

“Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.”

Knows Littles School Certain Gone Worst Awareness Taught Willing High School Ignorant Caged I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Being Ignorant

Book:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings