"There's no way of preventing the media from covering attacks as huge events and until the media stops doing that, they will be huge in people's consciousness, and we have to treat these things differently from the smaller random acts of violence."

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Karan Mahajan

#Violence Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.”

Source : Maria Edgeworth (1837). “Helen, etc”, p.52
“The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars”
“When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to the girl who is left behind.”

Source : Paul Potts (1960). “Dante Called You Beatrice”, London : Eyre & Spottiswoode
“Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly.”
“Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.”
“Assuming the universe came from nothing, it is empty to begin with... Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as God, could a state of nothingness be maintained. The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God.”
“I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear people to speech." Behind their fearful silence, our students want to find their voices, speak their voices, have their voices heard. A good teacher is one who can listen to those voices even before they are spoken-so that someday they can speak with truth and confidence.”
“We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.”

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