“Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They must constantly demonstrate to courts and legislatures alike the tragic results of legal nonintervention. They must highlight how legal doctrines no longer bear any relation to reality, whether in landlord and tenant law, holder in due course law, or any other law. In sum, lawyers must bring real morality into the legal consciousness” PeopleRealRealityLawCoursesResultsConsciousnessGroupsBearsMoralityEthicsRelationCourtDuesLawyerDoctrineTragicLegislatureHighlightsLandlordTenantsLegal Ethics Author:William J. Brennan
“It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means.” MeanArtEnoughStoriesInterestingConsciousnessOur LivesHappenedBearsLimitsArt IsDrivenTragicEnginesAnecdotesTragic Life Book:Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There
“Any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Tragic, first because it decreases our likelihood of getting our need met! Even if we think it. And secondly, because it increases the likelihood of violence. That's why I'm suggesting any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Say the need! Learn a need-consciousness.” IfsThinkingNeedsFirstsConsciousnessViolenceExpressionCommunicationMetsIncreaseTragicSuicidalDecreaseNonviolent CommunicationSuggestingEvaluationLikelihoodUnmet Needs Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg
“Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.” MindFirstsHumansLongPainLossRaceEmotionConsciousnessDetailsCrowdsHuman RaceTragicDaily LifeLastingThrustRecollectionPiercingsTragic Loss Author:Wallis Simpson
“At the present moment in our culture this yearning for meaning and consciousness, this yearning to give and serve something higher than ourselves, is breaking through the hard crust of our widespread cultural materialism and pseudo-scientific underestimation of what a human being is meant to be together with an equally tragic overestimation of what we human beings are capable of in our present everyday state of being. The intensity of the present confusion about the nature and existence of God is a symptom of this yearning within the whole of our modern culture.” GivingMomentsTogetherCultureExistenceConsciousnessModernCapableEverydayConfusionTragicMaterialismPresent MomentMeant To BeYearningExistence Of God Author:Jacob Needleman
“Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?” IfsWantHas BeensConsciousnessCarRacismTragedyWake UpAwakeningViolentHorribleTragicCrashCar Crash Author:Anna Deavere Smith