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The person who cannot wonder is
but
a pair of
spectacles behind
which there is no eye.
Thomas Carlyle
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As the fish doesn't
know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying
details; it ignores constants-- especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to
everything.
Alan Watts
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An enlightened mind is not
hoodwinked;
it is not shut up in a
gloomy prison till
it thinks the walls of its dungeon the
limits of the
universe, and the reach
of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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We
can know nothing of humankind without knowing
something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property
of those people whose passions have their
full play, but
who ponder over their results.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Become
aware that you already possess all the inner wisdom,
strength, and
creativity needed to make your dreams come
true. This is hard for most of us
to realize because the
source of this unlimited personal power is buried so
deeply beneath the bills, the car pool, the deadlines,
the business trip, and the
dirty laundry that we have
difficulty accessing it in our daily lives. When we can't
access our inner resources, we come to the flawed
conclusion that happiness
and fulfillment come only from
external events. That's because external events
usually
bring with them some sort of change. . . . We can learn to
be the catalysts
for our own change. . . . you already
possess all you need to be genuinely happy.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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We have only this moment,
sparkling
like a star in our hand. . .
and melting like a snowflake.
Let us use it before it is too late.
Marie Edith Beynon
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Two things fill me with constantly
increasing admiration and awe,
the longer and more
earnestly I reflect on them:
the starry heavens without
and the moral law within.
Immanuel
Kant
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A greater poverty than
that caused by lack of money is the poverty
of
unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of
the beauty, the goodness, and the glories in it. Their
souls are poor.
It is better to have a poor pocketbook
than to suffer from a poor soul.
Jerry
Fleishman
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The miracles of the church seem
to me
to rest
not so much on
faces or voices
or healing power
suddenly near to us from
afar
off, but upon our
perceptions being
made finer, so that for a
moment
our
eyes can see and our ears can hear
what is there about us always.
Willa Cather
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What else is going on
right this minute while ground water
creeps under my feet?
The galaxy is careening in a slow, muffled widening. . .
. The sun's surface is
now exploding; other stars implode
and vanish, heavy and black, out of sight.
Meteorites are
arcing to earth invisibly all day long. On the planet the
winds
are blowing. . . . Somewhere, someone under full
sail is becalmed, in the horse
latitudes, in the doldrums;
in the northland, a trapper is maddened, crazed, by
the
eerie scent of the chinook, the snow-eater, a wind that
can melt two feet
of snow in a day. The pampero blows,
and the tramontane, and the Boro,
sirocco, levanter,
mistral. Lick a finger: feel the now.
Annie
Dillard
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thank You God for this most amazing day;
for the leaping greenly spirits
of trees and a blue true
dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which
is infinite which is yes.
e.e. cummings
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Be on the lookout for
mercies. The more we look for them,
the more of them we
will see. . . . Better to lose count
while naming your
blessings than to lose your blessings
to counting your
troubles.
Maltbie D. Babcock
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Why do some people always see beautiful
skies
and grass
and lovely flowers and incredible human
beings,
while others
are hard-pressed to find anything or
any place that is beautiful?
Leo Buscaglia
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A person is alive
only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of
life
we must constantly strive to be aware of the importance of being
aware.
Be Aware of
Yourself: We should be aware of who we are and what we want to
be. We should be aware of our ideals and purposes and our
relationship to the Infinite.
Be Aware of Your
Senses and Use Them: So often we are distracted and unconscious
of the riches our senses can pour into our lives. We eat food
without tasting it,
listen to music without hearing it, smell without
experiencing the pungency of odors
and the delicacy of perfumes, touch
without feeling the grain or texture,
and see without appreciating the
beauty around us.
Be Aware of
People: This calls for sensitivity, an empathy that will make us
aware
of the inner thoughts of people--sadness, loneliness,
discouragement, joy. This is often an extrasensory
awareness. We should see people not as part
of a crowd, but as
individuals with needs, longings, and aspirations.
Be Aware of Our
Environment: We should be aware of our surroundings, both
our community and our country, and of the influences that now mold our
world so that
we can play our part in the life of our times. We
should be aware of significant events
in politics, science, and
religion and find in them the true and meaningful.
The secret of being
more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from
this moment, become aware of awareness!
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We
all have within us a deep sense of what we need, and what is
right
and true for us. To access this we need to pay
attention to our feelings
and our intuition. We need
to
learn to listen deeply to ourselves and to
trust what we hear.
And we need to risk acting on what we feel to be true.
Even if we make mistakes, we must do this
in order to learn
and grow.
Shakti
Gawain
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For
the past eighty years I have started each day in the same
manner.
It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential
to my daily life.
I go to the piano, and play two preludes and
fugues of Bach.
I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a
sort of benediction on the house.
But that is not its only
meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world
of which I have
the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness
of the
wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel
of being a
human being.
Pau
Casals
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The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great
happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common
flowers on the path of life, from which we might
abstract sweets, comforts, delights.
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When
we are conscious of being part of a wider universe, we can begin
to see that what we do matters. Every
action we take has a consequence somewhere,
whether good or bad. Everything
that happens affects a part of the whole body of life.
Having this knowledge of being part of something larger may motivate
us to contribute
to the greater good in whatever ways we can.
Sallirae
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One day, after a drawing exercise, one of my
students said in amazement,
"Every time I draw something I fall in love!" I wasn't
surprised to hear this,
because I know that when we wake up to the world around us in full
form,
with vivid colors, lines, and shapes, we become filled with awe and
wonder.
It is easy to fall in love with the things we've walked past so many
times,
because we realize that the world is offering itself to us like a
lover longing
for our embrace and recognition. Receiving the universe in all
its diversity
allows us a new self-appreciation, and coming to a level of
self-acceptance
and self-love prepares us to love the world in return. When this
awareness lives at our core, celebration becomes a way of life.
Adriana Diaz
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If I
keep my eyes open, I see bugs and snakes and intricate
tiny flowers and cool rocks and nice smiles and beautiful
architecture and gentle kindness. If I keep my heart young
I notice great places to play, nice sunsets, cool hideouts,
neat ice formations, and strange and unusual birds and animals.
Life is never ordinary. We can make it seem ordinary
by closing our eyes and hearts to its wonder, but that's not
life's fault. I prefer to notice the little things and then
leave
them be--never trying to take them with me or preserve
them--because that's what life's supposed to be, and
that's what makes me happy and keeps away disappointment.
tom
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The
people who are aware of themselves are henceforward
independent;
and they are never bored, and life is only
too short,
and they are steeped through and through with
a profound yet temperate
happiness.
Virginia
Woolf
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We must
not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference,
ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time,
add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
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If, then, I were asked for the
most important advice I could give, that
which I considered to be the most useful to the people of our century,
I
should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment,
cease your work, look around you.
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We are so busy
in our lives that we need to purposely give attention
to the everyday things that can make our lives lovelier, such as
keeping
a vase of fresh flowers in an obvious place, or several places in the
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Throughout
our lives, the moment we bring our awareness fully into
the
Now, we enter the domain of the true self, and our immediate
conscious reality is once again that of sensation and
perception. As
I sit in the park, the sunlight
brightens the leaves and casts shadows
on the ground. I have
a feeling of contentment. And as long as “I”
don’t create stories about what I am seeing or about the
fact that I
am feeling content, which leads me away from my immediate
experience,
what I experience remains simply
perception and sensation. The same is
true for any
feeling, any emotion. In the Now, it is just what it
is. In the
Now, I “go back” to my original
awareness “by the way that [I] have
come.” When we
directly perceive and experience whatever is present
in our
larger fields of awareness, it is possible to have a
relationship with
it without becoming lost in it or defined
by it.
Richard Moss
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It's all a matter of paying
attention, being awake in the present moment,
and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems
to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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