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• The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

  Thornton Wilder

  Decision, Freedom To Choose, Your Freedom

  Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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• It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures, yet always missing its color and sheen.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Color, Years, Missing

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• Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness.

  Arthur Koestler

  Mind, Degrees, Different

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

  Lindsay Wagner

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Oneness, States

  "Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence".

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• I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

  Walt Whitman

  Dream, Yoga, Mean

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Leaves of Grass”, p.18, Bantam Classics

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• One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

  Paul Cezanne

  Study, Surroundings, Subjects

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• The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Knowing Who You Are, Mind, Done

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

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• You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.

  Frederick Franck

  Copying, Way, Responding

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• There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Summer, Regret, Spring

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull, “No Regrets”

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• The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Real, Thinking, Conscious

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• There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around.

  Anton Ehrenzweig

  Skins, World, Body

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• It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)

  Stanley Milgram

  Perception, Puppets, May

  "The Social Dimensions Of Law And Justice In Contemporary India". Book by V. R. Krishna Iyer, 1979.

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• I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

  Zhuangzi

  Inspirational, Dream, Wisdom

  'Chuang Tzu' (1889, translated by H. A. Giles) ch. 2

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• Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.

  Eric Maisel

  Creating, Quality, Chance

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.158, Penguin

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• It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Body, Divinity

  "Yoga Connects You to the Perfection You Seek" by Vyda Bielkus, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2014.

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• Artist awake or be forever fallen.

  Frederick Varley

  Artist, Forever, Fallen

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• It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Anorexia, Tears

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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• Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

  Judith Wright

  Emotional, Expression, Feelings

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• Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing - being extensively aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Flower, Color, Sky

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• I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.

  Annie Dillard

  Air, Layers, Oblivious

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.68, Canongate Books

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• What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

  Gary Zukav

  Perspective, May, Matter

  Gary Zukav (1979). “The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics”, Bantam

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• How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, World, Levels

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• In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Heart, Understanding, Might

  Ronald Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.263, Humanix Books

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• A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the wall. One day an ant came into his cell. The man contemplated it in fascination as it crawled around the room. He held it in the palm of his hand the better to observe it, gave it a grain or two, and kept it under his tin cup at night. One day it suddenly struck him that it had taken him ten long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of an ant.

  Anthony de Mello

  Wall, Taken, Eye

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