Casual Quote by Alain de Botton

Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up…

— Pema Chodron

Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that…

— Marcel Proust

To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource.

— Mark Nepo

“We may feel good about our words our intentions and our motivation may be pure but our message probably will be lost or misunderstood…

— Robert E. Fisher

Sometimes the impressions are just general feelings. Sometimes the direction comes so clearly and so unmistakably that it can be written down like spiritual…

— Richard G. Scott

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

— Anonymous

The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of…

— William James

Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with…

— Albert Einstein

“Through discussions, reading, contemplation, and practice I've come to recognize the importance of subtle feelings and symbols. By paying attention to subtle energy, typically…

— Mark Ireland

People don't always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a…

— Alfred Hitchcock

More and more, I have come to realize how thoughts and concepts are all that block us from always being . . . in…

— Sogyal Rinpoche