Roger Housden Quotes - Page 2

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• Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

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  Writing, Tennis, Natural Gifts

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• When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond.

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  World

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• Time and the timeless dimension co-exist here, now in this very moment that we're living, this very moment that we're speaking.

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  Dimensions, Moments, Timeless

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• We live in an age of knowledge, with the great god Google, that we can refer to at any time on any subject.

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  Google, Age, Subjects

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• I live in California, where there's a lot of driving entailed. I'm usually going somewhere to be on time to meet someone so I'm necessarily engaged in time. And yet, how can I in that moment of driving my car, be aware of that which is not going anywhere?

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  California, Car, Driving

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• Practice remembrance of the present moment, again and again.

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  Practice, Remembrance, Moments

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• If you want to know your purpose, look at the unfolding of your life, because that is your gift to the world. It may not look spectacular, but nobody else has the precise life that you do. It's a gift no one else can offer.

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  Looks, Purpose, World

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• The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but also win against the competition.

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  Winning, Competition, Western Culture

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• When we turn our gaze to the inside, it becomes difficult to locate this familiar sense of self. To overcome that fear we need to feel special in some way.

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  Self, Special, Overcoming

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• Each of us is already special in the sense that nobody has the unique pattern of potentialities that anyone else has.

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  Unique, Special, Patterns

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• The more we enter our own gifts, the more we feel that sense of proportion. In that sense, I think our life lies in the fulfillment of those potentialities, whatever they may be.

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  Lying, Thinking, May

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• Struggle has a natural place in our life, but the fight or flight syndrome is often false struggle. There are times for that but we can have that reaction in areas of our life where it's not successful. Areas that concern existential issues or qualities of life - like meaning or purpose or love. These things actually come to us more as we let go of struggling to achieve them.

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  Letting Go, Struggle, Fighting

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• People around us change and circumstances change. We can often find ourselves struggling against those things.

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  Struggle, People, Circumstances

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• A knowing of what needs to be done or what needs to be said or what needs to happen at any given time. That is wisdom and wisdom does not come from the accumulation of knowledge.

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  Knowing, Doe, Needs

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• It is from that region of silence, that wordless knowing comes.

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  Knowing, Silence, Regions

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• The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet.

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  Self, Everyday, Dimensions

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• We can acquire as much knowledge as we would like with a few taps on our keyboard. That's extremely valuable, but wisdom comes again from some different dimension.

  Roger Housden

  Dimensions, Different, Keyboards

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• When we're fully engaged in the present moment, no matter what we're doing, the question of meaning never seems to arise. It's because we feel fulfilled and that is inherently meaningful.

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  Meaningful, Matter, Moments

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• Knowledge is immensely powerful and immensely useful.

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  Powerful

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• Wisdom and knowledge are two different things.

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  Two, Different, Knowledge And Wisdom

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• What's not often in the present moment is the thinking mind.

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  Thinking, Mind, Moments

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• The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.

  Roger Housden

  Body, Doorways, Moments

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• The love of someone else is more accessible or more possible if one lives with a sense of loving embrace towards oneself because that extends out into the world.

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  World, Embrace, Oneself

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• We have to be on time every day for one thing or another, so how can we be on time and yet not in time at the same time?

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  One Thing

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• There is a stillness in all of us that is really the essence of who we are. A stillness and a silence that doesn't move, that doesn't go anywhere and our task is to experience that while being in time.

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  Moving, Essence, Silence

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