“That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.” SpiritLeftLossAwarenessDisciplineAdversityIndependenceToughness Author:Gary Player
“In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.” ThinkingKindFoundLossNumbersGoneStudyAwarenessDuesExistentialImpressiveBereavementConfrontationWidowsWidowers Author:Irvin D. Yalom
“You discover the goal of existence by living it. The present is the only time when you can evolve, experience the divine, expand your awareness, or reach enlightenment. But this cannot be a haphazard journey that falters and wanders off the path. It's easy for that to happen when a crisis develops. Sudden losses and setbacks shake everyone up; those who keep moving forward are buoyed by knowing that their path cannot be destroyed, only interrupted.” HappensMovingEasyGoalLossExistenceKnowingPathJourneyAwarenessDivineEnlightenmentCrisisMoving ForwardDestroyedWanderEvolveShakesOnly TimeKeep MovingKeep Moving ForwardSetbackInterruptedHaphazard Book:Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges Source: Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges
“For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.” PeopleLossSituationAwarenessSeriousCrisisIllnessAwakeningMortalityTriggersSerious Illness Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I know, personally, that I would not be in the beautiful state of awareness that I find myself in daily now - knowing that love is the essence of all that is - had I not had the most painful of all experiences, the loss of my stepdaughter.” KnowsStatesBeautifulLossLove IsKnowingAwarenessEssencePainfulStepdaughters Author:Suzanne Giesemann
“Psychological factors are vital. We don't learn how to improve our emotional intelligence. Even in ancient cultures, such as the Greeks, cultivation of the art of being able to enter a state of awareness that is deeply blissful, and beyond thought and feeling as such. Many people have become disillusioned with religions and, as such, have turned away from pursuing anything spiritual. That create a loss of sense of purpose and a lot of anger. Sure, there are all sorts of problems with organised religions, but there are also all sorts of problems with the world of 'science' too.” PeopleWorldArtFeelingsProblemSpiritualPurposeCultureLossAwarenessEmotionalAncientPsychologicalGreekDisillusioned Author:Patrick Holford
“I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night.” FeelsHardNightLossMorningAwarenessNormalDown AndForgottenDawnSunlightFeel BetterReproofCrashing Down Author:Francine Prose
“How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his or her own mind, a talent psychologists call metacognition. We know when we are angry; every emotional state comes with self-awareness attached, so that an individual can try to figure out why he's feeling what he's feeling. If the particular feeling makes no sense—if the amygdala is simply responding to a loss frame, for example—then it can be discounted. The prefrontal cortex can deliberately choose to ignore the emotional brain.” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingMindSelfStatesFeelingsIndividualLossSimpleAnswersEmotionBrainAwarenessTalentFiguresExampleEmotionalParticularSelf AwarenessAngryContemplatingPsychologistResponding Author:Jonah Lehrer
“The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can start right where you are, in the midst of your life, and find peace in any circumstance. Even at those moments when the ground shakes terribly beneath you—when there’s a loss that will alter your life forever—you can still trust that you will find your way home. This is possible because you’ve touched the timeless love and awareness that are intrinsic to who you are.” WayStillsMomentsHomeSpiritualRealizingLossForeverPathAwarenessCircumstancesWho You AreShakesTouchedMidstWhere You AreRefugeTimelessFinding PeaceSpiritual PathGreat GiftsWay Home Author:Tara Brach
“It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this evanescent river of life wisely? With mindful awareness and love it becomes clear. You can fight against the river of change, or use its wisdom to teach you how to graciously move and create and flow with the full measure of joy and sorrow, gain and loss, praise and blame that make up every human incarnation.” HumansUseFeelingsMovingJoyFightingRealizingLossTeachClearMeditationMinutesAwarenessSorrowPerceptionGainsFlowRiversAnd LovePraiseBlameSensationsIncarnationNavigateJoys And SorrowsGains And Losses Author:Jack Kornfield
“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.” TwoSelfMightTogetherRealizingLossSilenceAwarenessIdentityAnxietyDiscoveryNegativeDistanceSelf DiscoveryWho We AreDimensionsDaydreamingBlurLapsesUnificationRegression Book:Love and Living Source: Love and Living