Action Quote by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

When you don't take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the universe like…

— Chris Hardwick

I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.

— Jean Cocteau

Sometimes when we’re in situations where we feel we’re not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as…

— Patricia McCormick

“As we contemplate the enormous variety of factors that must come together to produce a specific sense of self, our attachment to this “I”…

— Yongey Mingyur

I feel like the world gets so consumed and gobbled up by action, and the pace of life is so frantic, and people feel…

— Jim James

At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that…

— May Sinclair

Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert…

— Stephen Batchelor

We're all living in the same world so there is an element of a shared human experience that we must all be subconsciously reacting…

— Maisie Peters

Notice what happens when you doubt, suppress, or act contrary to your feelings. You will observe decreased energy, powerless or helpless feelings, and physical…

— Shakti Gawain

Maybe feeling of presence in my body is why I've always sought out extreme experiences; it forces me to be in a moment, to…

— Melissa Febos

We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive. We move among invisible forms whose actions we very often do…

— Dion Fortune

You are like a captain navigating a ship... You must give the right orders, thoughts and images to your subconscious which controls and governs…

— Joseph Murphy