Quotes about Awareness

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

The most common and naive response in the Western world is to ignore the battle or

Ignorance is not bliss; it is defeat. If you are a Christian, you are the target. If

The problem is you don't know what your problem is. You think your problem is your main problem, but that's not the problem at all. The problem is you don't know what your problem is and that's your main problem.

Many Christians in the Western church attempt to live as though the devil does not exist, having

Growing up, I was vaguely aware of things that went on in church, because I was in the boys' choir at the local Episcopal church. But I got the clear message that I was supposed to learn music there, and not pay too much attention to the rest of it, and I followed those instructions very carefully.

I only believe in what I see and hear with my own eyes and ears.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her presence. The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes.

Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.

Blind is he who will not see!

Their own destiny is a far-off thing to them ... One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, and yet is hardly conscious of it one's self. It always ends, it is true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look on at the game with indifference.