“The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.” YearsFirstsChildrenLife IsFourAwarenessBuddhismSixFemaleMalesPrimariesExposure Author:Frederick Lenz
“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
“I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.” YearsMadeNextExistenceMinutesAwarenessOne DayCuriosityImpossibilityOne Minute Author:Emile M. Cioran
“I've kind of fallen out of love with politics. ...Whatever experience and talents I've gained over the years -- I think it may well be that the highest and best use of that is to try to bring enough awareness of the solutions to the climate crisis and enough of a sense of urgency that we come together across party lines on behalf of our children.” ThinkingTryingYearsWellsKindMayChildrenEnoughUseTogetherLinesPartyAwarenessTalentHighestSolutionsOur ChildrenCrisisClimateFallenBehalfUrgencySense Of Urgency Author:Al Gore
“We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two.” YearsTwoStatesUsedAwarenessPlantRamaAlteredPower PlantsAltered States Author:Frederick Lenz
“As far as miracles are concerned, I'm not aware that I perform miracles. After many years and lifetimes of meditation, I am able to use the kundalini energy to alter other people's awareness and aid them in their search for light and certainty.” PeopleYearsUseLightAbleEnergyMeditationAwarenessBuddhismConcernedMiracleLifetimeAidsCertaintyRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being.” ThinkingWorldYearsHumansTwoPlayFeelingsPastJoyHouseHuman BeingsWonderAwarenessEssentialsIncrediblesPianoEach DayDaily LifeRoutineEightyPreludeBenedictionWonder Of LifeFugueRediscovery Author:Pablo Casals
“There are some groups that for years and years have not gotten the rights that the majority of human beings have, and I think that it's important to continue to draw these parallels so that when we think about our future we can change some of the lives of people who love differently than we do, look different than we do, who come from a different class. It's all about bringing awareness to how important it is to be accepting of people...and there will be oppression if one group thinks they're more important or superior.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsHumansLooksImportantDifferentHuman BeingsAcceptingClassRightsGroupsAwarenessDrawsMajoritySuperiorsOppressionOur FutureParallels Author:Janelle Monae
“The development of personal awareness is the only thing the human person can control, and once we understand that, a lot of the appendages fall away, and we look at purpose and karma and not get besotted by the karmas of other people because we carry them from life to life and year to year and day to day.” PeopleYearsHumansLooksPersonsPurposeFallAwarenessDevelopmentKarmaDay To Day Author:Maya Tiwari
“To have one's race brutally treated for so many years, even after the end of slavery and segregation, people are going to rise up with violence to attain what they believe is rightfully theirs. The most important thing at this time is raising the awareness of everyone; people need to be educated everywhere about all aspects of racism and how it affects people still today.” PeopleNeedsYearsBelieveStillsImportantEndsTodayRaceViolenceAwarenessRacismAspectSlaveryImportant ThingsTreatedEducatedSegregation Author:Assata Shakur
“The evolutionary impulse is towards disidentification from thinking and the arising of awareness or presence, but the gravitational pull of the old consciousness, or rather unconsciousness, is still quite heavy. It's been around for thousands of years.” ThinkingYearsStillsConsciousnessAwarenessHeavyImpulseUnconsciousness Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I worked as an assistant editor, actually, for a few years. That was right when I was just starting to get out at night and do a lot of stand-up, improv, and sketch work in New York. It really is invaluable. I think it pounded into me an awareness of what an editor wants and needs, in terms of clarity of a moment, where and when to start and stop a line.” ThinkingWantNeedsYearsMomentsNightTermLinesAwarenessNew YorkStartingClarityEditorsAssistantsInvaluableWants And Needs Author:Ed Helms
“I tell young girls, "The world is going to exploit and manipulate your sexuality. If you benefit from that financially, then you are part of the problem." That said, I thought all those parents flipping out over the Video Music Awards were ridiculous - women have been twerking in clubs for 20, 30 years. There's a real lack of awareness about what's going on across many layers of our culture.” IfsWorldYearsHas BeensSaidRealProblemYoungCultureGirlParentAwarenessBenefitsClubsSexualityRidiculousVideoAwardsLayersManipulateExploitsTwerkingFlipping Out Author:Rosalind Wiseman
“Movember is an event that I've supported for a number of years. I haven't grown a moustache myself before, but I've always donated to others. I think that raising awareness for men's health is really important. You see a lot of initiatives - very public initiatives - around women's health, like breast cancer awareness and the like, but men's health issues tend to go more unnoticed. I think this is a great cause and I'm proud to support it.” ThinkingMenYearsImportantCausesNumbersSupportIssuesAwarenessEventsHavensProudCancerBreastsInitiativeBreast CancerUnnoticedMoustacheHealth IssuesWomen's HealthRaising AwarenessCancer Awareness Author:James Magnussen
“As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.” ThinkingKnowsYearsPersonsLongTwoRealSelfShowsDiesThreeCoursesAwarenessBehaviorPatternsTeenagerTwo YearsThree YearsFearfulThink Of YouReal SelfThree Year OldsTwo Year Olds Author:Deepak Chopra
“Fifty years from now I don't think optical realism is going to be an issue in visual communication any more. Experience is so much richer than light falling on your retina. You embody a microcosm of reality when you walk down the street - your memories, your varying degrees of awareness of what's going on around you, everything we could call the contextualizing information. Representing that information is going to be the main issue in the years ahead - how the world meets the mind, not the eye.” ThinkingWorldYearsMindRealityLightEyeFallMemoriesWalksIssuesStreetsAwarenessInformationCommunicationDegreesVisualsFiftyRealismOur MemoriesRepresentingMicrocosm Author:Bill Viola
“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.” YearsBelieveHumansSelfRealityPassionSocialHuman BeingsAwarenessTaughtSelf AwarenessFilledDenyDenialGreat MenNonsenseBetrayAnti SocialFormative YearsDenial Of Reality Book:A Dark Time in America Source: A Dark Time in America
“When I speak about attention, I mean literally, "How much attention can we pay to ourselves?" As children, sometimes we cannot hold our attention for more than a couple of seconds. Over the years we are able to attend to more and more. Yet, we're seldom schooled to hold life in respect, to enlarge our ability to love, take care of, and be respectfully connected with all things around us.” YearsMeanChildrenSometimesCareAbleSpeakAbilityPayAttentionAwarenessCoupleAll ThingsConnectedTake CareSecondsSchooledAbility To Love Author:Brooke Medicine Eagle
“I don't think that developing countries gained from a two-stage process. A single phase summit (which is, after all, a two year process, not a three day event) would have built awareness, and would probably have led to more substantive conclusions at the end of the first summit meeting. Civil society may have gained a bit more from the networking experience, but it was less effective at networking in the second phase.” ThinkingYearsFirstsMayTwoEndsCountryThreeBitsProcessStageAwarenessEventsBuiltMeetingsConclusionDevelopingTwo YearsPhasesSummitNetworkingCivil SocietyDeveloping Countries Author:David Souter
“It transmitted because on the campuses, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was recruiting, was organizing. Students for a Democratic Society was founded at Michigan just a couple years before I got there. So, there was a kind of a churning of political awareness. It was just beginning.” YearsKindPoliticalAwarenessStudentsCoupleDemocraticCommitteesCampusMichiganDemocratic SocietyChurningCoordinatingPolitical Awareness Author:Bill Ayers
“I grew up having great awareness of who I was in regards to racial identity and socio-economic status. This caused me great frustration until I was about 19 years old at Tuskegee University. My brother became a Christian along with my father and they shared the Gospel with me on occasion.” YearsChristianFatherEconomicAwarenessIdentityBrotherGrewGrew UpRegardUniversityOccasionsMy BrotherFrustrationRacial IdentityEconomic Status Author:Sho Baraka
“More than fifty years ago Sputnik dramatically raised the nation's awareness of what was lacking in science and math education in America. What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good.” PeopleNeedsYearsAmericaNationsImaginationGreaterAwarenessConcernYears AgoCrisisRaisedMathFiftyLackingGreater GoodMath EducationEducation In AmericaSputnik Author:Katherine Paterson
“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
“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantTryingYearsWantedFeltSleepAwarenessThousandThousand YearsSpinningMorbidPerksPerks Of A Wallflower Author:Stephen Chbosky
“It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen and heard. The reverse also happens.” ThinkingMenYearsFirstsBelieveSoulSometimesMomentsMightHappensEyeAbleSufferingFallAnimalHappenedHeardAwarenessRegardLaysRichesScalesFamiliarImpulseWarmthContemptReverseSensitivityVividWild AnimalUncontrollableSuffering Of Others Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.” YearsMindHeartSoulCountryJobsChoicesNextNationsFreedomQualityGenerationsAwarenessDetermineWoundsHealReactionsCommandSecureLegacyInjuryVotingVotersDividesNext GenerationPresidential ElectionUnknowingAmerican VotersHeart Mind And Soul Author:Aberjhani
“This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.” YearsMinutesAwarenessLosingEternityPassingPassingsThis DayFillingLosing Time Book:One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are Source: One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are