Sensations Quotes - Page 36

• When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I’m encouraging myself to live in the present moment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sight, Effort, Sound

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• I love music and I guess I have less expectations or pressure to kind of put on myself because the music hasn't been some huge sensation.

  Mandy Moore

  Expectations, Pressure, Kind

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• If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fall, Stronger, Demand

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• For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free will, self nor other. There is simply one all-inclusive Happening, in which your personal sensation of being alive occurs in just the same way as the river flowing and the stars shining far out in space. There is no question of submitting or accepting or going with it, for what happens in and as you is no different from what happens as it.

  Alan Watts

  Stars, Fate, Self

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• In all sensation we pick and choose, interpret, seek and impose order, and devise and test hypotheses about what we witness. Sense data are taken, not merely given: we learn to perceive.... The teacher has forgotten, and the student himself will soon forget, that what he sees conveys no information until he knows beforehand the kind of thing he is expected to see.

  Peter Medawar

  Teacher, Taken, Order

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• I never met a man I didn't get a kind of strange and exciting tingling sensation from.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Strange, Kind

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• Actually, screenplays were much more detailed than what I did in the book In the book I had to invent a style for communicating what the sensation of looking at a film would be, whereas the screenplays I wrote in Paris were actual blueprints for how to do the film, with every gesture, every little movement noted in exhaustive detail.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Paris, Style

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• In the early days of the Internet, the word "navigation" had this ingrained in it. There really was a sensation of the cyber-flâneur, as you really would have no idea where you would end up. You would end up on pages that had nothing to do with what you wanted, experiences that were totally unanticipated. You had to connect the dots, connect the parcels of your experience. It was totally open to randomness.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Ideas, Pages, Dots

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is 'the analog I' around which all the simultaneous inflow of sensations and stimulations are reflected and organized.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Mind, Brain, Consciousness

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to bury the plague victims in these caves underneath the streets of Edinburgh, when I got this weird cold sensation up my spine, it gave me this really weird feeling, and then I looked up and there was this white, sudden white shape, that just zapped from me and went straight to the light that was at the back of the room, and I just stopped cold and said to the audience, "Did you guys see that?" No one saw it.

  Rhys Darby

  White, Light, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I find the relationship of sensation and physicality, and, for me, it's music like anything else. It's a different way of expressing and exploring sound. I find it really beautiful.

  Zeena Parkins

  Beautiful, Sound, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Before the 90s, black metal wasn't a selling tool [and didn't] have money behind it. Then it became a pop sensation. Now that the record industry has collapsed and started to rot, things are livening up a bit again.

  Mat McNerney

  Black, Tools, Records

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• If I were to arrive at a foreign country like Czech Republic, I don't have to speak Czech to understand the feeling of the local sensations through architecture. That is a kind of communication that no language can perform.

  Jimenez Lai

  Country, Communication, Czech Republic

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's the most natural progression for me to becoming a singing sensation next. And so many people have offered to be on it. Eddie Van Halen... and Prince, Madonna and Cyndi Lauper will probably be a backup trio.

  Paul Reubens

  People, Singing, Next

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The quality of mindfulness does not just know something is happening - e.g. there is an emotion, a sensation - but knows without clinging or condemning.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Quality, Doe, Mindfulness

  "A conversation with meditation teacher and co-founder of Insight Meditation Society: Sharon Salzberg". Interview with Nancy Alder, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

  Feelings, Bears, Spheres

  Friedrich Schleiermacher (1836). “Schleiermacher's Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato”, p.172

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• Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensation’s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it.

  S. N. Goenka

  Practice, Passing Away, Truth Is

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• If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Prayer, Mean, Doe

  Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston (2010). “The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill”, p.159, University of Illinois Press

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• I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

  John Keats

  Sexy, Sensual, Moments

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.390, Harvard University Press

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• Ideas are merely sensations imprinted deep inside us...Like attracts like...There is great wisdom in the subconscious mind. If you begin to work with it, it can be of tremendous benefit to you and serve as an excellent reservoir of knowledge.

  James Van Praagh

  Motivational, Ideas, Mind

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• Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations joined to certain central cerebral processes... It is contradicted by the fact of consciousness itself, which cannot possibly be derived from any physical qualities of material molecules or atoms.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Law, Psychology, Quality

  Wilhelm Wundt, (2013). “An Introduction to Psychology”, p.78, Read Books Ltd

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• The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation.. What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Addiction, Alcohol

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• Experiencing the silence of meditation doesn't have to be complicated. You can lie on the floor with arms and legs outspread, paying attention to the sensations in your body. You can observe the outflow and inflow of your breath. You can also go to a park and let the impressions of nature calm your brain.

  Deepak Chopra

  Lying, Silence, Meditation

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• I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.

  Judd Apatow

  Self Esteem, World, Way

  Interiew with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind of never-ending present.

  Etgar Keret

  Strong, Son, Thinking

  "What Etgar Keret Learned From His Father About Storytelling And Survival". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 16, 2015.

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