“I have consciously sought after those things which make for value, order, richness, spirit and wonder, even though I am often unable to verbalize what I feel when I perceive something beautiful. Sometimes it's a pang or a sensation; at other times it is an awareness of joy and security or pure pleasure. In any event, it is a moment to be celebrated. Beauty justifies itself. The fact that it is beyond definition means nothing.” FeelsMeanSometimesMomentsFactsBeautifulJoySpiritValuesOrderPleasureWonderBeautyAwarenessSecurityEventsPureDefinitionsPerceiveJustifySensationsRichnessSomething Beautiful Author:Luci Swindoll
“I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am - of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain - or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things ... I have no idea whatever of my soul.” ThinkingIdeasSoulPainSufferingTurnsPassionAwarenessCapacityRelationMy SoulNo IdeaMutualFacultySensationsMy ThoughtsMy PassionSensory Author:Nicolas Malebranche
“Use emotional awareness and pay attention to your body - look [and locate] concrete physical sensations - like stabbing, aching, throbbing - and [distinguish and define them] by saying things like, "it is the size of a golf ball or it is the size of a baseball" - do whatever you can do to find painful physical sensations.” LooksUseBodyCan DoPayAttentionAwarenessEmotionalBaseballBallsGolfSizePainfulYour BodyPay AttentionSensationsConcreteGolf BallStabbing Author:Gary Zukav
“What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child. From, The Book of Disquiet” MindChildrenBookFeelingsDreamAwarenessReflectionCapacityProfoundHorribleSensationsUnusualCradleBook Of Disquiet Author:Fernando Pessoa
“I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?” PeopleFeelsFirstsLooksPersonsMomentsHandsAbilityAwarenessOne DaySensationsNumb Book:DUNE Source: DUNE
“You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to the real business of writing and should be cherished.” KnowsFeelsShouldWritingLooksRealMatterFeelingsSuccessfulAwarenessProseRelaxSensationsExposureInadequacyGhastlyFeelings Of Inadequacy Author:Will Self
“Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great hollowness left where something lovely and solid used to be. ...There is something fundamentally insatiable about being human, as though we come into the world with a kind of built-in tension between the experience of being hungry, which is a condition of striving and yearning, and the experience of being fed, which may offer temporary satisfaction but always gives way to new strivings, new yearnings.” WorldWayGivingHumansKindMayI CanUsedLeftConditionsAwarenessMissingOffersBuiltConnectionsStriveSatisfactionLovelyHungryUsed To BeTensionFedsSensationsTemporaryYearningBeing HumanInsatiableHollowness Author:Caroline Knapp
“We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.” LooksWonderMysteryAwarenessFunctionDancingDanceVarietySensationsAffirmationSpectatorsVigorImpartDance LifeWonder Of LifeDance Is Life Author:Martha Graham
“It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.” RealBodySpiritualSpiritualityAwarenessAwakeningSensationsSpiritual AwarenessGroundingBody AwarenessBody Soul And Spirit Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“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