Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion self-discipline that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.
I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating even being aware of my idiocy about my weight.
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so ' no one says 'you're so moody ' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass and I'm very confrontational and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.
Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.
We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
Liberalism is I think resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language though so I am always aware of every word's meaning or multiple meanings.