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How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath is no longer…

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...inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in the world…
The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we…
Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware…
This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the…
Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.
The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in…
It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we…
The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body…
Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of…
Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition…
So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private…

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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below,… — Saint Basil
When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The… — Byron Katie
Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right? — Wayne Dyer
Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. So we don't have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to… — Joko Beck
It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not… — Anne Lamott
Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer? — Marilyn Monroe
Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me. — Clint Eastwood
Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to… — David Wallace
Send Love in Some Form to those you Believe have Wronged you, & Notice How Much Better you Feel — Wayne Dyer
We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it, to his home, to his centers of entertainment:… — Che Guevara
I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how… — Ransom Riggs
Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how… — Paul of the Cross

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