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“I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.”

Thinking Kind States Fronts Flow Climbing Thinking Ahead

Author:Aron Ralston

“To stop thought it's necessary to put your life into a state of balance. Otherwise you can sit and meditate for hours and all kinds of conscious and unconscious thoughts will flow through you.”

Kind States Hours Balance Conscious Flow All Kinds Unconscious Conscious And Unconscious Unconscious Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate.”

States Levels Birth Conscious Flow Rebirth Sympathetic Birth And Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and other distorted states of consciousness. These imperfect states of mind in turn give rise to imperfect activities, and the seeds of suffering are ever planted in a steady flow.”

Source: The Path to Enlightenment

“When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.”

People Thinking States Term Economy Effects Flow Everyday Everyday Life

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.”

Firsts States Space Objects Color Flow Interpretation

Author:Kay WalkingStick

“No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The banks of a river may belong to one man or one industry or one State, but the waters which flow between the banks should belong to all the people.”

People Men Should May States Use America Water Industry Flow Rivers Environmental One Man Sewers Rivers And Water Water Pollution

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value, is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already worked out in advance some psycho-physical theory connecting spiritual values in general with determinate sorts of physiological change. Otherwise none of our thoughts and feelings, not even our scientific doctrines, not even our dis -beliefs, could retain any value as revelations of the truth, for every one of them without exception flows from the state of their possessor's body at the time.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“The wisdom of God exceeds that of the wisest man, more than his wisdom exceeds that of a child. If a child were to conjecture how an army is to be formed in the day of battle--how a city is to be fortified, or a state governed--what chance has he to guess right? As little chance has the wisest man when he pretends to conjecture how the planets move in their courses, how the sea ebbs and flows, and how our minds act upon our bodies.”

Ifs Men Mind Children Littles States Body Moving Courses Chance Cities Sea Planets Battle Flow Army Exceed Wisest Conjecture Ebb And Flow Wisest Man

Book:Philosophical works

Source: Philosophical works

“When everything flows into place ? washes dry tonally correct, crisp and sparkling, the light scheme is sound and the "accidentals" are all happy ones ? I'm temporarily in a euphoric state.”

States Light Sound Flow Accidents Dry Schemes Crisps Sparkling Euphoric

Author:Bill Luff

“It isn't so much that God is the unified state of consciousness that each of us came from and will return to, but more so that God is the creative energy flowing between all states of consciousness. God is in the land beyond the mountains, but God is also in the mountains and in the valley of illusions cradled within the mountains. God is not one thing or another, rather God flows between and through all things.”

States Energy Consciousness Creative One Thing Land Return Mountain Illusion Flow All Things Valleys Unified States Of Consciousness Creative Energy All State

Book:The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

Source: The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

“Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a sort of astute perspective and carefully state what you see you can't help but sounding like you're joking.”

Ifs Looks States Helping Media Products Communication Like You Perspective Flow Currents Consumers Inevitable Related Digital Massive Astute

Author:Aaron Belz

“To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.”

Mean Stills States Consciousness Flow Empty Emptiness Stillness Receptive Incessant States Of Consciousness

Author:John Daido Loori

“The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so people who are trying to build new lives, trying to build a better life.”

People Trying States United United States Type Flow Slavery Immigration New Life Better Life

Author:Kevin Bales

“You can enjoy the present moment, and you can be aligned with the doing. A different state of consciousness, then, is the foundation for what you do. Presence flows into what you do. Even though what you do may be the same, there is a fundamental difference: The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.”

May Different States Moments Energy Enjoy Differences Consciousness Flow Foundation Fundamentals Peaceful Present Moment Alignment States Of Consciousness High Energy

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow...it is the honest state before the apple.”

Ifs Knows Love Mind Mean Ends States Hate Impossible Honest Flow Relation Not Sure Apples Cognitive Love Means

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.”

Giving Wells Made Country States Political Water Interesting Flow Well Being Islands Mexico Florida Cuba Most Interesting Gulf Of Mexico

Book:Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

“Where focus goes, energy flows. And where energy flows, whatever you're focusing on grows. In other words, your life is controlled by what you focus on. That's why you need to focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear. When you next find yourself in a state of uncertainty, resist your fear. Shift your focus toward where you want to go and your actions will take you in that direction.”

Want Needs States Action Life Is Next Energy Grows Focus Flow Uncertainty Finding Yourself Controlled Energy Flow

Author:Tony Robbins

“until you have, once at least, faced everything you know - the whole universe - with utter giving in, and let all that is 'not you' flow over and engulf you, there can be no lasting sense of security. Only by being prepared to accept annihilation can one escape from that spiritual 'abiding alone' which is in fact the truly death-like state.”

Knows Giving States Whole Facts Spiritual Universe Accepting Security Acceptance Flow Prepared Lasting Abiding Annihilation Giving In

Author:Marion Milner

“When your fulfillment and sense of self are no longer dependent on the future outcome, joy flows into whatever you do. You do what you do because the action itself is fulfilling. Whatever you do or create in that state is of high quality. This is because it is not a means to an end, and so a loving care flows into your doing.”

Mean Ends Self States Care Action Joy Quality Flow Fulfillment Outcomes Dependent Fulfilling Sense Of Self High Quality Means To An End

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Setting a field for synchronicity is a matter of putting yourself in a particular state of mind. It is easy to think about synchronicity intellectually, but unless you enter the state of mind where your prayer-field will help, all you will do is glimpse the coincidences every once in a while. In some situations that is enough and you will be led forward for a time, but eventually you will lose your direction. The only way to establish a constant flow of synchronicity is to stay in a state where your prayer field keeps this flow moving toward you--a state of conscious alertness.”

“I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.”

States Liberty Streets Flow Vermont Main Street Wellspring

Author:James H. Douglas

“Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.”

Men Self States Consciousness Becoming Flow Ghost Passing Passings Flux States Of Consciousness Wisps

Book:Jack London Six Pack

Source: Jack London Six Pack

“In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.”

Men Wells Soul States Water Grace Tree Flow Rivers Streams Rising Rooted Crystals

Book:The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

Source: The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

“During the current period of health care development in our country, improvement of the management quality is becoming increasingly important. This is due to many processes, including new ones, such as increase in the number of financial resources used to implement the state guarantees program, the need for more efficient spending of funds, rearrangement of cash flows, single-channel financing”

“Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.”

“When you're feeling unwell, remember that the same power that actually made your body knows how to restore it to its original state of well-being. All you have to do is remove the obstacles erected by you and your toxic world, and allow this healing power to flow through you.”

Knows World Wells Made States Feelings Body Remember Healing Know How Flow Originals Obstacles Your Body Well Being Remove Toxic Restoration Spiritual Healing Feeling Bad Inspirational Health

Author:Wayne Dyer

“The blow back from the cold war is that a weakened Russia allowed Afghanistan to become a failed state, and then all this weaponry to flow into all these other conflicts. Our greatest triumph has almost fueled our most intractable battle now.”

War States Cold Battle Conflict Flow Blow Russia Triumph Afghanistan Cold War Weaponry

Author:Jon Stewart

“Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.”

Men World Way Love States Past Peace Interest Materials Ambition Flow Inspirational Love Spiritual Wisdom Turmoil Cleansing Materiality

Author:Sai Baba

“There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .”

World States Whole Shadow Flow All Things Rivers Whole World Passing Away Ebb And Flow Gliding

Author:Ovid

“The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid.”

Should States Helping United United States Flow Humanitarian Aids Handle Agency Sudan

Author:Elliott Abrams

“Where are the drug cartels getting their weapons? They are being provided by the United States. Cut off that flow of arms.”

States United United States Cutting Arms Drug Weapons Flow Cartels Drug Cartels

Author:Noam Chomsky

“As commander in chief, I will not speak to Vladimir Putin until we've set up that no-fly zone; until we've gathered our Sunni-Arab allies and begun to deny ISIS territory; until I've called the supreme leader of Iran and told him new deal - new deal. We the United States of America are going to cut off the money flow, which we can do; which we don't need anyone's permission or collaboration to do.”

“Whatever you do in your business comes out of a state of inner alignment with life and the source of life itself, so peace flows into whatever you do.”

States Source Flow Alignment Source Of Life

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.”

States Flow Surprise Surrender Serendipity

Author:Judith Orloff

“Not only did you have people fleeing Libya, people fleeing Syria, the destabilisation of other African countries as a result of arms flows, but the Libyan state itself err was no longer able to control the movement of people through it.”

People Country States Able Results Movement Arms Flow Syria Libya Fleeing

Author:Julian Assange

“America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there, and the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.”

Should States America United United States Violence Gun Flow Organization South Including Criminals Cash Mexico North America Smuggling Money Laundering

Author:Alan Bersin

“When someone is in a state of flow, that person's brain is not thinking about anything - it's just processing things through chunks at a total instinct level. Athletes in a state of flow describe knowing what will happen just before it does - knowing how a defender will react to a certain move an instant before doing it. Of course, if you know what will happen, you can succeed at doing it, so an athlete in flow has a stand-out game.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Doe States Happens Moving Certain Courses Games Levels Brain Knowing Succeed Flow Instinct Athlete Instant Standing Out Defenders Chunks Processing

Author:Kevin Maney

“I think one big thing about the United States is that the American population, they may be excited about Iraq or one thing or another, but basically has had a great deal of interest in humanitarian causes both within the country and abroad. Even when they criticize the mechanism to which it flows.”

Thinking May Country States Bigs Causes Interest United Deals United States One Thing Flow Iraq Population Excited Humanitarian Criticize Mechanism Big Things

Author:Amartya Sen

“My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.”

States Grace Fairs Flow And Love Sick Trust In God Disgrace Good Health Stormy Loving Me Live And Love

Author:Brennan Manning

“Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.”

Book States Problem Law Given Resources Flow Immigration Borders Illegal Stopping Strengthening Illegal Immigration Border Patrol

Author:Allen West

“At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing aspects (representational processes of memory and narrative) of mental life. The matter of the mind matters for secure attachments.”

“Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity...In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.”

Feels States Hours Activity Flow Bored Engaged Anxious Noticing Optimal Adequacy

Author:Susan Cain

“The seasons, like greater tides, ebb and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of about fifteen miles a day. It ascends mountainsides at the rate of about a hundred feet a day. It sweeps ahead like a flood of water, racing down the long valleys, creeping up hillsides in a rising tide. Most of us, like the man who lives on the bank of a river and watches the stream flow by, see only one phase of the movement of spring. Each year the season advances toward us out of the south, sweeps around us, goes flooding away to the north.”

Source: The American seasons

“Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a balanced state of being and highly intelligent. Self-consciousness inhibits this intelligent, balanced state of being. By opening, by dropping our self-conscious grasping, we see not only the surface of an object, but we see the whole way through.”

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

“There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and smile.”

People Ifs States Wisdom Seems Fun Wise Source Flow Down And Calm Equanimity Agitation Calm Down Playfulness Wise People

Author:Edward Hoagland

“I thought, man, if you could run 100 miles, you'd be in this Zen state. You'd be the f**king Buddha. Bringing peace and a smile to the world. In my case, it didn't work. I'm the same old punk ass as ever. But there's always this hope that it'll turn you into the person you want to be. You know, like a better, more peaceful person. And when I'm out on a long run, the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't going 'bleh bleh bleh bleh.' Everything just quiets down, and the only thing going on is pure flow”

“Who then would not like to see these benefits flow upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source? But is it possible? Whence does the State draw those resources that it is urged to dispense by way of benefits to individuals? Is it not from the individuals themselves? How, then, can these resources be increased by passing through the hands of a parasitic and voracious intermediary?”

World Way Doe States Philosophy Hands Law Political Individual Source Benefits Draws Resources Economics Flow Passing Passings Passing Through

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature's rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are living in the state of grace. To live in grace is to experience that state of consciousness where things flow effortlessly and our desires are easily fulfilled. Grace is magical, synchronistic, coincidental, joyful. It's that good-luck factor. But to live in grace we have to allow nature's intelligence to flow through us without interfering.”

Mind States Body Desire Consciousness Grace Flow Harmony Luck Factors Rhythm Joyful Fulfilled Interfere Good Luck States Of Consciousness

Author:Deepak Chopra

“There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of continents. The persistent tides - the pulse of the sea - do not discriminate; they push against all the varied shores on Earth.”