“I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.” IfsStillsImportantStoriesEnjoyAwarenessReaderConsciousReactions Author:Thomas Perry
“I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.” ThinkingPersonsDoeReasonHelpingStoriesPsychologyAwarenessBuddhismSkillsTrainingWesternPatternsBuddhistPersonal LifeCompatible Author:Tara Brach
“Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on.” MayLittlesSometimesStoriesFeelingsJoyLyingAwarenessEventsRelationMadNotesStoresDataLittle ThingsFar AwaySuspicionGood WorkGrossHauntingOutrageousCollectorsReviewersTauntingUnexplainedMacabre Book:Wild Talents Source: Wild Talents
“With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells. Stop Wanting reveals, in every lyric, its author's profound metaphorical gifts. In its ironies and intensities, it brings to mind a writer like the young Sylvia Plath, though what is startling about Harris' s work is the way it combines those gifts with a muted, deft self-awareness. Most of all, these are wonderfully shaped, powerful, and surprising poems-a startling debut.” WayMindMadeBookSelfStoriesYoungPowerfulAwarenessSelf AwarenessProfoundExtraordinaryCraftsIronyIntensitySurprisingDebutMetaphoricalFerocityPersonal StoriesPlath Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society.... As a result there is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in the novel--an intense awareness of human loneliness.” HumansStoriesResultsNovelAwarenessLonelinessFiguresIntenseWanderCharacteristicsShort StoryFringe Author:Frank O'Connor
“Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart-messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you'll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along.” IfsWorldWayLifeInspirationalFirstsHeartMayHas BeensStoriesBodyChoicesNextProcessRealizingStepsSadnessChildhoodAwarenessMessagesPrisonYour BodyReleaseLive ByDaringLockedReverseAnother WayOutside WorldChoices You MakeTelling Your Story Author:Martha Beck
“Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.” ChildrenStoriesSongAwarenessQuietEssentialsQuietnessSleepyQuiet TimeChildren's LiteratureChildren Literature Author:Margaret Wise Brown
“Mindfulness is developing an awareness of the thoughts and feelings that we move through without getting drawn into the meanings or taking action or getting sucked into the story. Like house guests, eventually they all leave. We become more attuned to being a container for those things and less identified with them.” StoriesFeelingsActionMovingHouseAwarenessMindfulnessDevelopingGuestsTaking ActionThoughts And FeelingsContainersHouse Guests Author:Barnet Bain
“When we meditate, we go beyond the swirl of thoughts, memories and emotions that tend to keep us stuck in our ego's story of who we are. We enter an expanded state of awareness and discover our own inner fountain of joy, a source of happiness that isn't dependent on anyone or anything.” StatesStoriesJoyMemoriesEmotionAwarenessSourceEgoStuckWho We AreDependentFountainSwirlsSource Of Happiness Author:Deepak Chopra
“When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction. The process of calling it into conscious awareness can change it, and now you're storing something that's different. We all do this, for example, by inadvertently adopting a story we've heard.” FeelsDifferentSometimesStoriesMightTogetherRememberBitsProcessPiecesHeardAwarenessExampleCallingConsciousConstructionConstructsRecollectionDifferent TimesAdoptingConscious AwarenessBits And PiecesRemember Something Author:Elizabeth Loftus
“To the extent that I've ever understood postmodernism - and I'm sure there are people out there who do, but I'm not one of them - one of its distinguishing traits is the story's awareness of its own artifice, and how that awareness becomes part of the story. And if that's right, then I have no idea how I ever got lumped into postmodernism except that I believe, since I was first published, people just haven't quite known where else to put me.” PeopleIfsFirstsBelieveIdeasStoriesI BelieveKnownAwarenessHavensUnderstoodNo IdeaTraitsPostmodernismArtifice Author:Steve Erickson
“Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there.” PeopleThinkingWantHelpingStoriesBigsAwarenessCrisisCommunicateSpreadSolveOrgansTelling StoriesDonationOrgan Donation Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.” LifeStoriesActorsAwarenessWitnessBe Here Now Author:Ram Dass
“In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.” WorldNeedsMayChildrenStoriesTodaySongGreaterModernChildhoodAwarenessActivityQuietEssentialsModern WorldStressedOverlookedQuietnessSleepyManiaQuiet TimeChildren's LiteratureChildren Literature Author:Margaret Wise Brown
“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.” WayEnoughStoriesSpeakNatureNaturalPayAttentionEnvironmentLandAwarenessQuietGardenPatiencePatientPay AttentionNature And EnvironmentNature BeautyInspirational NatureNature And BeautyThe Wild NatureNature's BeautyInspiring NatureBeing NaturalChildren And NatureTime And Patience Author:Linda Hogan
“Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self in the story and more ability to rest in the awareness that is witnessing what’s happening. You become more able to abide in compassion, to remember and trust your true home. Rather than cycling repetitively through old conditioning, you are actually spiraling toward freedom.” SelfStoriesHomeAbleRememberAbilityCompassionAwarenessEmotionalHappeningsPatternsAwakeningConditioningCyclingIdentificationTrue Home Book:True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart Source: True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart