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• While holding positive thoughts and emotions is advantageous, positive thinking itself is not "Hallmark Card thinking." It's really an ongoing awareness that all truly is well with the world, with life, and with oneself. It's also a commitment not to mindlessly pass on fears but to bring positive energy, images, ideas, and feelings into the lives of others, to help them attune to the wellness at the heart of the world.

  David Spangler

  Heart, Positive Thinking, Commitment

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• I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Men, Acting

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• My most fundamental hope is for a worldwide attitude of tolerance, which will only come through education and an awareness of other cultures and religions. The more people are exposed to other philosophies and thoughts, the more possible it becomes to resolve world conflicts peacefully. Education builds tolerance for other points of view.

  John Hendricks

  Attitude, Philosophy, Carpe Diem

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• "Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device, not a question.

  Rajneesh

  Identity, Answers, Devices

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• Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.

  Freeman Patterson

  Mean, Vision, Labels

  Freeman Patterson (1990). “Photography and the art of seeing”

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• If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

  Barbara Cook

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Courage

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• Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Humility, Insecurity, Conceit

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• Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle. We come awake to such a realization when we recognize our connection to a spiritual dimension.

  Dan Wakefield

  Spiritual, Appreciation, Miracle

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• When one past thought has ceased and a future thought has not yet risen,
  in that gap, in between, isn't there a consciousness of the present moment;
  fresh, virgin, unaltered by even a hair's breadth of a concept, a luminous, naked awareness?
  Well, that's what naturally peaceful awareness is.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Past, Hair, Meditation

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• Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment,
  in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart.
  By simply relaxing in this uncontrived, open, and natural state,
  we obtain the quality of effortless freedom of whatever arises.

  Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

  Real, Heart, Meditation

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• True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter
  is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.

  Brad Warner

  Expression, Meditation, Encounters

  Brad Warner (2007). “Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death & Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye”, p.241, New World Library

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• An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment.
  This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything is perfectly managed by it.
  Conclusively realise that what is unborn and illuminating is truly awakened and without effort,
  rest naturally as the Unborn Mind.
  Resting in this way, you are a living Buddha.

  Bankei Yotaku

  Effort, Meditation, Mind

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• Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.

  Black Elk

  Eye, Wind, Giving

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

  Clarence Day

  Self, Justice, Diversity

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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• If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

  Frantz Fanon

  Bridges, Justice, Diversity

  Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”

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• Acceptance and awareness are the keys to freedom.

  Paul Lowe

  Acceptance, Keys

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• Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.

  Guy Finley

  Patience, Peace, Fear

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Jul 27, 2013

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• As far as possible, you should pray in quiet and silent devotion. Try to have a favorite topic of prayer, such as a devotion to the passion of Jesus, the Blessed Sacrament, awareness of the divine presence; go directly to Jesus without too much fuss.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Prayer, Blessed

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• It is not a question of sitting silently, it is not a question of chanting a mantra. It is a question of understanding the subtle workings of the mind. As you understand those workings of the mind a great awareness arises in you, which is not of the mind. That awareness arises in your being, in your soul, in your consciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Understanding, Soul

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• It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this evanescent river of life wisely? With mindful awareness and love it becomes clear. You can fight against the river of change, or use its wisdom to teach you how to graciously move and create and flow with the full measure of joy and sorrow, gain and loss, praise and blame that make up every human incarnation.

  Jack Kornfield

  Moving, Fighting, Loss

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• When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self, Names, Meditation

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.3, New World Library

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• Oneness is inner silence, which remains undisturbed by external factors. This silence is not the opposite of noise. That is inner Oneness.

  Kalki Bhagavan

  Opposites, Oneness, Silence

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• There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Sweet, Heart

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you, take a deep breath and notice what you see, hear and feel. Present moment awareness is the point of power and choice. It frees us from our compulsive thoughts.

  Laura Harvey

  Letting Go, Past, Giving

  "Letting Go: How to Release the Past" by Laura Harvey, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2011.

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• Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden, so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and at least for a brief moment one is ushered into a nondual and timeless awareness. A great garden, in other words, is mystical no matter what its actual content.

  Ken Wilber

  Garden, Self, Religion

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