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“Anxiety is an extension of the dynamics of fear. It's the feeling of fear without an awareness of the object of your fear. All you know is that you're fearful, but you can't specify exactly what you are afraid of. You just worry about everything.”

Knows Feelings Worry Awareness Objects Anxiety Fearful Extensions Dynamics

Author:G. Frank Lawlis

“I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense, commitment, humor, tact, love, wisdom, awareness, and knowledge. At the same time, it holds the possibility for the most rewarding, joyous experience of a lifetime, namely, that of being successful guides to a new and unique human being.”

Source: The new peoplemaking

“Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production and consumption that reduces everyone else to threat and competition.”

Doe Break Awareness Anxiety Competition Threat Productions Cycles Consumption Invited Sabbath Frantic

Author:Walter Brueggemann

“Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.”

Mind States Choices Awareness Demand Anxiety Perception State Of Mind

Book:Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“I do think there is an enhanced awareness of insecurity and vulnerability that induces anxiety that creates pressure on teachers and administrators to offer simplistic explanations and to be resistant to expressions of attitudes that can be viewed as unpatriotic, which is further interpreted as applicable to any tendency to challenge the government when it claims to be acting overseas to avoid repetitions of 9/11 or to encroach on domestic freedom to identify suspicious persons and behaviors.”

“Culture gives us each a sense that life has meaning and that we have value - by offering us assurances of immortality. Either literally, through the heavens, the soul's afterlives or reincarnation, or by the prospect that some vestige of ourselves will persist over time - from having kids, amassing great fortunes or producing great works of art or science. Yet no culturally constructed symbolic belief system is ever powerful enough to completely eradicate the anxiety that is engendered by the awareness of death.”

Giving Art Enough Kids Values Culture Belief Heaven Powerful Awareness Anxiety Immortality Reincarnation Persist Assurance Great Work Having Kids

Author:Sheldon Solomon

“Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.”

Way Should Seems Desire Process Goal Awareness Promise Anxiety Overcoming Strive Definitions Resolution Respite

Book:Status Anxiety

Source: Status Anxiety

“Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative silence blurs and confuses our identity, and we lapse into daydreams or diffuse anxieties. Positive silence pulls us together and makes us realize who we are, who we might be, and the distance between these two.”

Two Self Might Together Realizing Loss Silence Awareness Identity Anxiety Discovery Negative Distance Self Discovery Who We Are Dimensions Daydreaming Blur Lapses Unification Regression

Book:Love and Living

Source: Love and Living

“Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.”

Knows Giving Mind Persons States Whole Truth Action Choices Study Path Awareness Truth Is Demand Anxiety Perception Oneself Martial Arts State Of Mind Frontiers Exclusion Knowing Oneself

Author:Bruce Lee

“Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.”

Past Our Lives Awareness Anxiety Mindfulness Guilt Over The Past

Author:Russell Targ

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”

Source: Mindfulness: Living in the Moment Living in the Breath

“Both Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King used these phrases ("playing out of one's mind," or "over one's head") to describe their performances while winning tghe finals at Wimbledon in 1975. . . . The player loses himself in the action, continually breaki g the false limits placed on is potential. Awareness becomes acutely heightened, while analysis, anxiety and self-conscious thought are compoletly forgotten. Enjoyment is at a peak - pure and unspoiled.”

“Each of us seeks peace of mind, but we sometimes fear that it means giving up excitement and ecstasy. Peace sounds like contentment, which sounds like settling, letting the fire go out. Actually, peace of mind allows you to go more deeply into the world and consequently to experience more excitement and ecstasy. The fire burns brighter, fueled by awareness instead of anxiety.”

World Giving Mind Mean Sometimes Peace Sound Fire Awareness Giving Up Anxiety Settling Excitement Contentment Peace Of Mind Ecstasy Brighter

Author:Jennifer James