Circumstances Quote by Stephen Nachmanovitch Download Open image “Faithfulness to the moment and to the present circumstance entails continuous surrender.” — Stephen Nachmanovitch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Circumstances Faithfulness Moments Surrender Time Trust
Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises. — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
“Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. The only place where you can experience… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Our ability to surrender in life is directly related to the amount of peace and fulfillment we experience.” — Mike Robbins Copy Share Image
Surrendering only refers to this moment, whatever "is" at this moment - to accept unconditionally and fully whatever arises at this moment. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“Surrender creates equanimity and bliss because you release yourself from any attachment to the results.” — Annette Vaillancourt Copy Share Image
Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Surrender is not something that you can do. If you do it, it is not surrender, because the doer is there. Surrender is a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
In the art of teaching, we recognize that ideas and insights need to cook over a period of time. Sometimes the student who is… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else on earth. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Brahms once remarked that the mark of an artist is how much he throws away. Nature, the great creator, is always throwing things away.… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking causes stress. The real cause of all problems lie in our… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Trust is about keeping commitments, but in many instances, circumstances change and organizations therefore shed commitments, things such as retiree medical benefits, pension obligations,… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“The set of circumstances that justifies the use of deadly force is a situation of immediate danger of death or great bodily harm to… — Massad Ayoob Copy Share Image
My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
It's impossible to know who Donald might have been under different circumstances and with different parents. — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat. — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
Being positive helps you to keep away negative thoughts. And helps you to stand in adverse circumstances with the hope that in the end… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image