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Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life… — Laozi
In a world where God does not exist, any reasonable person must see that the propensity toward selfishness should be the most venerated of all… — Derek R. Audette
I do not suffer; I cannot suffer because I am not an object. Of course there is suffering. But do you realize what this suffering… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Your karma is the sum total of your awareness field. Your awareness field is comprised of all the experiences that you've had in this life… — Frederick Lenz
Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's related by a… — Frederick Lenz
What you will be in your next life is the sum total of the realizations that you have had in this lifetime. — Frederick Lenz
I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon. — David Crabb
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. — Dave Barry
The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who does not complain...… — Jean Giraudoux
The sum total of all sums total is eternal. — Lucretius
President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness… — Colin Powell
I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition. — Henri Matisse
One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and… — Andre Breton
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the… — David Hockney
Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others - that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly, we're seeking security.… — Ingmar Bergman
I always used to go for blondes and quiet girls, but Victoria is the total opposite - dark and loud. — David Beckham
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that… — Harold Rosenberg
Today, only two groups in the United States have total immunity from lawsuits: foreign diplomats and HMOs. We believe it's time to end diplomatic immunity… — Tom Harkin
Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully… — Yves Klein
Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been good friends. I am constantly chasing sleep and then pushing it away.… — Amy Poehler
You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably… — David Stern
The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern. — Hans Haacke
The increase in accidents is disappointing. But the decrease in total fatalities is a hopeful sign. — Mark Rosenker
Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any… — Joan Miro
I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now. — Wavy Gravy

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