“Enlightened teachers can do certain miracles, but they are not really miracles. They just know how to use energy on other levels of consciousness. A miracle is in the eye of the beholder, as is all of life.” KnowsUseEyeCertainEnergyCan DoLevelsConsciousnessKnow HowTeacherMiracleEnlightenedBeholderEye Of The Beholder Author:Frederick Lenz
“When the entire moral energy of an individual goes into the cultivation of personal integrity, we all know how unlovely the result may become; the character is upright, of course, but too coated over with the result of its own endeavor to be attractive.” KnowsMayCharacterCoursesIndividualEnergyResultsMoralKnow HowIntegrityAttractiveEndeavorCultivationPersonal Integrity Book:Democracy and Social Ethics Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces, are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist has known all that is in man? Millions of years have passed since man came here, and yet but one infinitesimal part of his powers has been manifested. Therefore, you must not say that you are weak. How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.” KnowsMenYearsLittlesHas BeensStillsLyingEnergyForceBehindsKnownMillionsKnow HowPossibilityOceanWeakScientistInfiniteSurfaceDo You KnowWithin YouBehind YouDegradationLurkingBlessednessInfinite Power Book:My Idea of Education Source: My Idea of Education
“Angry people, unhappy people, people that seek to injure others, these people all have something in common. They waste energy. They don't conserve it and they don't know how to increase it.” PeopleKnowsEnergyCommonKnow HowBuddhismWasteIncreaseAngryUnhappyHappy PeopleUnhappy People Author:Frederick Lenz
“We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.” KnowsHumansUseEnergyKnow HowWasteAbuseOur TimeFuelFossilsFossil FuelRenewable EnergyEnergy PolicyEnergy UseEnergy Crisis Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“I've done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.” KnowsGivingDoneEnoughFilmEnergyKnow How Author:Courtney Love
“The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.” KnowsFirstsImportantEnergyKnow HowFocusHusbandImportant ThingsTrivia Author:Michael Korda
“It is much more accurate to identify the factors of production as know-how (that is genetic information structure), energy, and materials, for, as we have seen, all processes of production involve the direction of energy by some know-how structure toward the selection, transportation, and transformation of materials into the product” KnowsEnergyProcessKnow HowInformationMaterialsProductsTransformationStructureProductionsFactorsAccurateSelectionTransportationFactors Of Production Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.” IfsKnowsMayEnergyKnow HowMeditationMinutesFlowerWalkingTenPerceptionMindfulnessSittingAngerTwentiesEmbraceCome UpFollowingBreathingTrue NatureWalking Meditation Author:Nhat Hanh
“When we are angry, our anger is our very self. To suppress or chase away our anger is to suppress or chase away ourselves. When anger is born, we can be aware that anger is an energy in us, and we can change that energy into another kind of energy. If we want to transform it, first we have to know how to accept it.” IfsKnowsWantFirstsKindSelfEnergyBornAcceptingKnow HowAngerAngry Author:Nhat Hanh
“With negative energy you can make the positive energy. A flower will become compost someday, but if you know how to transform the compost back into the flower, then you don't have to worry. You don't have to worry about your anger because you know how to handle it - to embrace, to recognize, and to transform it. So this is what is possible.” IfsKnowsEnergyWorryKnow HowFlowerNegativeEmbraceHandleSomedayPositive EnergyNegative EnergyCompost Author:Nhat Hanh