awareness

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d0abf7c	If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.	life awareness	Leo Tolstoy
cfdbd50	The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people's perception of you is a reflection of them; your response to them is an awareness of you.	inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living inspiring life-lessons life inspirational inspirational-quote authentic-living life-philosophy perception awareness	Roy T. Bennett
28648d7	It's worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That's what makes you really feel alive. You have to say 'no' to other things you're used to, and do it with all your heart.	soul-and-heart stir-your-soul time inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism heart life inspirational awareness soul	Roy T. Bennett
5fde740	You will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind.	follow-your-heart follow-your-inner-voice follow-your-intuition gut-feeling listen-your-inner-voice inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking spiritual optimism life inspirational inner-voice intuition awareness soul	Roy T. Bennett
ab12b03	I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn't have to write at all anymore if I didn't want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don't know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they're through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn't ask to be flowers and I didn't ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five...I had a shutting-off feeling...that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK .	writing books bloom finished slaughterhouse-five book complete flowers awareness	Kurt Vonnegut
e30e828	You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.	advaita advaita-vedanta eternal-truths everyone-belongs vedanta enlightenment loneliness global-oneness unity spirituality motivational life-lessons life wisdom inspirational non-duality insights interconnectedness awakening eternal oneness aloneness everyone spiritual-quotes spiritual-growth nonduality eternal-life wisdom-quotes alone awareness	Amit Ray
42f3830	Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.	enlightenment spiritual inspirational awakening giving wisdom-quotes service awareness self-realization know-thyself	Ramana Maharshi
5f71e3b	I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness	beauty love inspirational acceptance blessing wisdom-quotes awareness know-thyself	Walt Whitman
19ba6ff	I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness. All seems beautiful to me. Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.	beauty love inspirational blessing wisdom-quotes awareness know-thyself	Walt Whitman
1b0e784	The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.	suicide pain suffering depression prevention awareness depressed mental-illness psychology mental-health	William Styron
796d6a4	We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.	acceptance-of-oneself fear self-awareness trust inspiration love inspirational self-acceptance self-love awareness vulnerability power surrender	Eric Micha'el Leventhal
b0a69a3	Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.	integrity originality awareness creativity	John O'Donohue
309d56c	"Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance!	lover present dance live spirituality music song spiritual life love inspirational sing awareness-quotes be become let-go conscious consciousness-quotes consciousness feet enjoy yourself khayyam harmony letting-go-quotes living-in-the-now moment saadi kamand kamand-kojouri kojouri sufi rumi hafiz hafez awareness surrender forget voice beloved	Kamand Kojouri
342360f	People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.	awareness knowledge	Anthony Burgess
4ae2e26	This is it.	moment awareness	Jon Kabat-Zinn
b79ee3f	I want to talk about another kind of high country now in the world of thought, which in some ways, for me at least, seems to parallel or produce feelings similar to this, and call it the high country of the mind. If all of human knowledge, everything that's known, is believed to be an enormous hierarchic structure, then the high country of the mind is found at the uppermost reaches of this structure in the most general, the most abstract considerations of all. Few people travel here. There's no real profit to be made from wandering through it, yet like this high country of the material world all around us, it has its own austere beauty that to some people makes the hardships of traveling through it seem worthwhile. In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty, and to the enormous magnitude of questions asked, and to the answers proposed to these questions. The sweep goes on and on and on so obviously much further than the mind can grasp one hesitates even to go near for fear of getting lost in them and never finding one's way out.	enlightenment philosophy high-country montana mountains wild meditation reflection consciousness awareness thought introspection	Robert M. Pirsig
4aa4630	"The repugnance to what must ensue almost immediately, and the uncertainty, were dreadful, he said; but worst of all was the idea, 'What should I do if I were not to die now? What if I were to return to life again? What an eternity of days, and all mine! How I should grudge and count up every minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!' He said that this thought weighed so upon him and became such a terrible burden upon his brain that he could not bear it, and wished they would shoot him quickly and have done with it." The prince paused and all waited, expecting him to go on again and finish the story. "Is that all?" asked Aglaya. "All? Yes," said the prince, emerging from a momentary reverie. "And why did you tell us this?" "Oh, I happened to recall it, that's all! It fitted into the conversation--" "You probably wish to deduce, prince," said Alexandra, "that moments of time cannot be reckoned by money value, and that sometimes five minutes are worth priceless treasures. All this is very praiseworthy; but may I ask about this friend of yours, who told you the terrible experience of his life? He was reprieved, you say; in other words, they did restore to him that 'eternity of days.' What did he do with these riches of time? Did he keep careful account of his minutes?" "Oh no, he didn't! I asked him myself. He said that he had not lived a bit as he had intended, and had wasted many, and many a minute." "Very well, then there's an experiment, and the thing is proved; one cannot live and count each moment; say what you like, but one cannot." "That is true," said the prince, "I have thought so myself. And yet, why shouldn't one do it?" "You think, then, that you could live more wisely than other people?" said Aglaya. "I have had that idea." "And you have it still?" "Yes -- I have it still," the prince replied."	living-wakefully wasting-time wakefulness value experience awareness	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
c321e55	The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at the bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them nonexistent, and a warning such as mine against cheap optimism was bound to prove particularly unwelcome at a moment when a sumptuously laid supper was awaiting for us in the next room.	warning humanity optimism awaiting aware banish cheap-optimism dangers danger nonexistent supper unwelcome awareness human-beings cowardice self-deception instinct food	Stefan Zweig
f6d729a	What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that's the only name I can think of for it...like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America, this America, the one that we are now in, an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer. The Chautauquas were pushed aside by faster-paced radio, movies and TV, and it seems to me the change was not entirely an improvement. Perhaps because of these changes the stream of national consciousness moves faster now, and is broader, but it seems to run less deep. The old channels cannot contain it and in its search for new ones there seems to be growing havoc and destruction along its banks. In this Chautauqua I would like not to cut any new channels of consciousness but simply dig deeper into old ones that have become silted in with the debris of thoughts grown stale and platitudes too often repeated.	enlightenment philosophy chautauqua american-history entertainment consciousness awareness media	Robert M. Pirsig
2b7c2a9	"But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friendly, easygoing...and uninvolved. They were like spectators. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There was no identification with the job. No saying, "I am a mechanic." At 5 P.M. or whenever their eight hours were in, you knew they would cut it off and not have another thought about their work. They were already trying not to have any thoughts about their work on the job."	work automaton employees mindless mindfulness mindset sheep perspective quality consciousness awareness	Robert M. Pirsig
9d59e5e	There is really no natural limit to the practice of loving kindness in meditation or in one's life. It is an ongoing, ever-expanding realization of interconnectedness. It is also its embodiment. When you can love one tree or one flower or one dog or one place, or one person or yourself for one moment, you can find all people, all places, all suffering, all harmony in that one moment. Practicing in this way is not trying to change anything or get anywhere, although it might look like it on the surface. What it is really doing is uncovering what is always present. Love and kindness are here all the time, somewhere, in fact, everywhere. Usually our ability to touch them and be touched by them lies buried below our own fears and hurts, below our greed and our hatreds, below our desperate clinging to the illusion that we are truly separate and alone. (...). Make sure that you are not to help anybody else or the planet. Rather, you are simply holding them in awareness, honoring them, wishing them well, opening to their pain with kindness and compassion and acceptance.	illusion kindness compassion life love all-people all-places expanding honouring opening-to-pain uncovering unlimited well-wishing everywhere interconnectedness touched loving loving-kindness mindfulness realisation presence meditation harmony awareness	Jon Kabat-Zinn
4622cb1	The closest analogy, the one her brain reached for and rejected and reached for again, was splashing into a lake. It was cold, but not cold. There was a smell, rich and loamy. The smell of growth and decay. She was aware of her body, the skin, the sinew, the curl of her gut. She was aware of the nerves that were firing in her brain as she became aware of the nerves firing in her brain. She unmade herself and watched herself being unmade. All the bacteria on her skin and in her blood, the virii in her tissues. The woman who had been Elvi Okoye became a landscape. A world. She fell farther in.	analogy transcendence awareness	James S.A. Corey

d0abf7c

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

life awareness

Leo Tolstoy

cfdbd50

The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people's perception of you is a reflection of them; your response to them is an awareness of you.

inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living inspiring life-lessons life inspirational inspirational-quote authentic-living life-philosophy perception awareness

Roy T. Bennett

28648d7

It's worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That's what makes you really feel alive. You have to say 'no' to other things you're used to, and do it with all your heart.

soul-and-heart stir-your-soul time inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism heart life inspirational awareness soul

Roy T. Bennett

5fde740

You will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind.

follow-your-heart follow-your-inner-voice follow-your-intuition gut-feeling listen-your-inner-voice inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking spiritual optimism life inspirational inner-voice intuition awareness soul

Roy T. Bennett

ab12b03

I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn't have to write at all anymore if I didn't want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don't know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they're through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn't ask to be flowers and I didn't ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five...I had a shutting-off feeling...that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK .

writing books bloom finished slaughterhouse-five book complete flowers awareness

Kurt Vonnegut

e30e828

You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.

advaita advaita-vedanta eternal-truths everyone-belongs vedanta enlightenment loneliness global-oneness unity spirituality motivational life-lessons life wisdom inspirational non-duality insights interconnectedness awakening eternal oneness aloneness everyone spiritual-quotes spiritual-growth nonduality eternal-life wisdom-quotes alone awareness

Amit Ray

42f3830

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

enlightenment spiritual inspirational awakening giving wisdom-quotes service awareness self-realization know-thyself

Ramana Maharshi

5f71e3b

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness

beauty love inspirational acceptance blessing wisdom-quotes awareness know-thyself

Walt Whitman

19ba6ff

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness. All seems beautiful to me. Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.

beauty love inspirational blessing wisdom-quotes awareness know-thyself

Walt Whitman

1b0e784

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.

suicide pain suffering depression prevention awareness depressed mental-illness psychology mental-health

William Styron

796d6a4

We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

acceptance-of-oneself fear self-awareness trust inspiration love inspirational self-acceptance self-love awareness vulnerability power surrender

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

b0a69a3

Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.

integrity originality awareness creativity

John O'Donohue

309d56c

"Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance!

lover present dance live spirituality music song spiritual life love inspirational sing awareness-quotes be become let-go conscious consciousness-quotes consciousness feet enjoy yourself khayyam harmony letting-go-quotes living-in-the-now moment saadi kamand kamand-kojouri kojouri sufi rumi hafiz hafez awareness surrender forget voice beloved

Kamand Kojouri

342360f

People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.

awareness knowledge

Anthony Burgess

4ae2e26

This is it.

moment awareness

Jon Kabat-Zinn

b79ee3f

I want to talk about another kind of high country now in the world of thought, which in some ways, for me at least, seems to parallel or produce feelings similar to this, and call it the high country of the mind. If all of human knowledge, everything that's known, is believed to be an enormous hierarchic structure, then the high country of the mind is found at the uppermost reaches of this structure in the most general, the most abstract considerations of all. Few people travel here. There's no real profit to be made from wandering through it, yet like this high country of the material world all around us, it has its own austere beauty that to some people makes the hardships of traveling through it seem worthwhile. In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty, and to the enormous magnitude of questions asked, and to the answers proposed to these questions. The sweep goes on and on and on so obviously much further than the mind can grasp one hesitates even to go near for fear of getting lost in them and never finding one's way out.

enlightenment philosophy high-country montana mountains wild meditation reflection consciousness awareness thought introspection

Robert M. Pirsig

4aa4630

"The repugnance to what must ensue almost immediately, and the uncertainty, were dreadful, he said; but worst of all was the idea, 'What should I do if I were not to die now? What if I were to return to life again? What an eternity of days, and all mine! How I should grudge and count up every minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!' He said that this thought weighed so upon him and became such a terrible burden upon his brain that he could not bear it, and wished they would shoot him quickly and have done with it." The prince paused and all waited, expecting him to go on again and finish the story. "Is that all?" asked Aglaya. "All? Yes," said the prince, emerging from a momentary reverie. "And why did you tell us this?" "Oh, I happened to recall it, that's all! It fitted into the conversation--" "You probably wish to deduce, prince," said Alexandra, "that moments of time cannot be reckoned by money value, and that sometimes five minutes are worth priceless treasures. All this is very praiseworthy; but may I ask about this friend of yours, who told you the terrible experience of his life? He was reprieved, you say; in other words, they did restore to him that 'eternity of days.' What did he do with these riches of time? Did he keep careful account of his minutes?" "Oh no, he didn't! I asked him myself. He said that he had not lived a bit as he had intended, and had wasted many, and many a minute." "Very well, then there's an experiment, and the thing is proved; one cannot live and count each moment; say what you like, but one cannot." "That is true," said the prince, "I have thought so myself. And yet, why shouldn't one do it?" "You think, then, that you could live more wisely than other people?" said Aglaya. "I have had that idea." "And you have it still?" "Yes -- I have it still," the prince replied."

living-wakefully wasting-time wakefulness value experience awareness

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

c321e55

The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at the bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them nonexistent, and a warning such as mine against cheap optimism was bound to prove particularly unwelcome at a moment when a sumptuously laid supper was awaiting for us in the next room.

warning humanity optimism awaiting aware banish cheap-optimism dangers danger nonexistent supper unwelcome awareness human-beings cowardice self-deception instinct food

Stefan Zweig

f6d729a

What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that's the only name I can think of for it...like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America, this America, the one that we are now in, an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer. The Chautauquas were pushed aside by faster-paced radio, movies and TV, and it seems to me the change was not entirely an improvement. Perhaps because of these changes the stream of national consciousness moves faster now, and is broader, but it seems to run less deep. The old channels cannot contain it and in its search for new ones there seems to be growing havoc and destruction along its banks. In this Chautauqua I would like not to cut any new channels of consciousness but simply dig deeper into old ones that have become silted in with the debris of thoughts grown stale and platitudes too often repeated.

enlightenment philosophy chautauqua american-history entertainment consciousness awareness media

Robert M. Pirsig

2b7c2a9

"But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friendly, easygoing...and uninvolved. They were like spectators. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There was no identification with the job. No saying, "I am a mechanic." At 5 P.M. or whenever their eight hours were in, you knew they would cut it off and not have another thought about their work. They were already trying not to have any thoughts about their work on the job."

work automaton employees mindless mindfulness mindset sheep perspective quality consciousness awareness

Robert M. Pirsig

9d59e5e

There is really no natural limit to the practice of loving kindness in meditation or in one's life. It is an ongoing, ever-expanding realization of interconnectedness. It is also its embodiment. When you can love one tree or one flower or one dog or one place, or one person or yourself for one moment, you can find all people, all places, all suffering, all harmony in that one moment. Practicing in this way is not trying to change anything or get anywhere, although it might look like it on the surface. What it is really doing is uncovering what is always present. Love and kindness are here all the time, somewhere, in fact, everywhere. Usually our ability to touch them and be touched by them lies buried below our own fears and hurts, below our greed and our hatreds, below our desperate clinging to the illusion that we are truly separate and alone. (...). Make sure that you are not to help anybody else or the planet. Rather, you are simply holding them in awareness, honoring them, wishing them well, opening to their pain with kindness and compassion and acceptance.

illusion kindness compassion life love all-people all-places expanding honouring opening-to-pain uncovering unlimited well-wishing everywhere interconnectedness touched loving loving-kindness mindfulness realisation presence meditation harmony awareness

Jon Kabat-Zinn

4622cb1

The closest analogy, the one her brain reached for and rejected and reached for again, was splashing into a lake. It was cold, but not cold. There was a smell, rich and loamy. The smell of growth and decay. She was aware of her body, the skin, the sinew, the curl of her gut. She was aware of the nerves that were firing in her brain as she became aware of the nerves firing in her brain. She unmade herself and watched herself being unmade. All the bacteria on her skin and in her blood, the virii in her tissues. The woman who had been Elvi Okoye became a landscape. A world. She fell farther in.

analogy transcendence awareness

James S.A. Corey