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True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen...

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Kathleen NorrisDakota: A Spiritual Geography

Every angel is terrifying.Through the darkness, they move silently...I will go down into death with ...

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Kathy AckerEurydice in the Underworld

The point of the overall meditative path is to have Wakefulness (or Consciousness as Such) transcend...

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Ken WilberThe Fourth Turning: Imagining the Evolution of an Integral Buddhism

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the...

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Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

Is a man truly what he see himself to be?''Only if what he sees is true.

Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, ...

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Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, ...

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Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, ...

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Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, ...

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The music was more than music- at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. T...

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Louise ErdrichThe Plague of Doves

If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's t...

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I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in pris...

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The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific g...

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Malcolm XMalcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

You ask: Why is the malady of death fatal? She answers: Because whoever has it doesn't know he's a c...

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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings n...

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The child is more individualised than the adult, the patient more than the healthy man, the madman a...

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Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle?...

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Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider.

Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to...

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Orhan PamukThe Museum of Innocence

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - i...

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Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of aware...

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Peace PilgrimPeace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

I know too well how slowly we edge along sideways to every thing good & brilliant in our lives & how...

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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Selected Letters Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We need to make progress. Otherwise we're waiting for news in a world where there is no longer any n...

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Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

I went to work, but the mood of the book would not die; it lingered, coloring everything I saw, hear...

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The application of this knife, the division of the world into parts and the building of this structu...

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But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friend...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that’s the only name I can think of for it...like the trav...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe ...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

I want to talk about another kind of high country now in the world of thought, which in some ways, f...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Phædrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges ...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The cultural past is rigidly deterministic to the extent that the individual is unaware of it. An an...

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Rollo MayThe Meaning of Anxiety

If our ideas and beliefs are held with an awareness of abstracting, they can be changed if found to ...

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S. I. HayakawaLanguage in Thought and Action

It would not be too strong to say that I felt sane for the first time in my life. And yet the change...

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Sam HarrisWaking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

There is nothing passive about mindfulness. One might even say that it expresses a specific kind of ...

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Sam HarrisWaking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

Because feelings, emotional and physical, are so foregrounded in sexual encounters, the orgy is soon...

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Samuel R. DelanyThe Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village

The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of ...

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The difficult thing is not to pick up the information but to recognise it - to accept it into our co...

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Ted HughesPoetry in the Making: An Anthology

As survivors and procreators, we unravel stories that at their root are not dissimilar from the habi...

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Thomas LigottiThe Conspiracy Against the Human Race

Emily: Oh, Mama, look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone b...

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It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger ha...

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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objecti...

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This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...

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I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.All seems beautiful to me...

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We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness…True solitude is found in the wild places, where...

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We have a duty tonight. Everybody, and guys this for you as well because I know you know women. You ...

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Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar b...

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A man's life is his whole life, not the last glimmering snuff of the candle; and this, I say, is con...

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He understands the texture and meaning of the visible universe, and 'sees into the life of things,' ...

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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to w...

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As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight ...

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William O. DouglasThe Douglas Letters: Selections from the Private Papers of Justice William O. Douglas

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills ...

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William StyronDarkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trade...

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Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he...

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Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective ...

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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what ...

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Breathing is our participation with the cosmic dance. When our breath is in harmony, cosmos nourishe...

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Amit RayBeautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

Innovation needs preparation, collaboration and the light of the soul. Every challenge provides that...

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Raise you awareness and share your uniqueness to the world.

Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

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

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Each moment, breath is nourishing millions and millions of cells in our body.Listen to its language,...

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Mindfulness removes the emotional fogs of negative thoughts with the light of awareness.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Moment is a flower. Mindfulness is sipping the nectar of that flower.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of every...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and aw...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by cou...

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In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path - the path of compassion, courage, underst...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

Turn on the light within, expand your horizons and reach your full potential.

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Amit RayPeace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.

Yoga is bringing fitness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.

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Amit RayYoga The Science of Well-Being

Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain form the body, mind and the society.

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.

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Amit RayYoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness.

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as...

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The interior life expands and fills; it approaches the edge of skin; it thickens with its own vivid ...

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The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingl...

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

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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, w...

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The world is right because I feel good.p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependenc...

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Anthony de MelloAwareness: Conversations with the Masters

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen a...

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Anthony de MelloAwareness: Conversations with the Masters

As one man said, "I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it." That's what spiri...

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Anthony de MelloAwareness: Conversations with the Masters

We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause - for ...

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Anthony de MelloAwareness: Conversations with the Masters

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

All things can be deadly to us, even the things made to serve us; as in nature walls can kill us, an...

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The highest paid Americans read an average of two to three hours per day. The lowest paid Americans ...

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p5-what they need..is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason...

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It isn't that as time goes by you're learning sorcery; rather, what you're learning is to save energ...

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The aim of sorcerers is to reach a state of total awareness in order to experience all the possibili...

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It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge p...

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The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death.It is about the real value of a real education, which...

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