“There are endless planes of attention, endless realities and endless mind states. They're like collections of atoms and protons and neutrons, nuclei. They just go on forever. They're plasma, they're fluid ... they're alive.” WorldMindStatesRealityAttentionForeverAliveBuddhismGoes OnEndlessPlanesCollectionsAtomsFluidOther WorldsNucleusNeutronsPlasmaProton Author:Frederick Lenz
“There's a song that wants to sing itself through us. We just got to be available. Maybe the song that is to be sung through us is the most beautiful requiem for an irreplaceable planet or maybe it's a song of joyous rebirth as we create a new culture that doesn't destroy its world. But in any case, there's absolutely no excuse for our making our passionate love for our world dependent on what we think of its degree of health, whether we think it's going to go on forever. Those are just thoughts anyway. But this moment you're alive, so you can just dial up the magic of that at any time.” ThinkingWorldWantMomentsBeautifulSongCultureCasesForeverAliveMagicPlanetsGoes OnDegreesPassionateExcuseAvailableDependentOur WorldRebirthJoyousNo ExcusesPassionate LoveIrreplaceableRequiemNew CulturesJust A Thought Author:Joanna Macy
“It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own business, and let other people do as they like about damaging themselves and one another. You go on kidding yourself that you're impartial and tolerant and all that, then all of a sudden you realize you're dead, and you've never been alive at all.” PeopleIfsMindSeemsRealizingWatchesAliveGoes OnThis LifeOwn BusinessMind Your Own BusinessMind Your OwnKidding Yourself Author:Mary Stewart
“I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live.” WayWantMomentsFeltAliveRiskAdventureGoes OnWastePatchesPirateOne Life To LivePrecious Moments Author:Kathleen Hanna
“What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory.” NeedsFeelsMindFactsFeelingsAliveFailingLonelinessFieldsPaintingGoes OnVictoryDiseaseGainsHorribleShyGoing OutOverwhelmedTime Goes On Book:Van Gogh, letters from Provence Source: Van Gogh, letters from Provence
“I think now more than ever there's so much available honesty that you can find on the Internet. You can go on to YouTube and find really, really vulnerable, really verité stuff. It's not even verité, it's real! It's people confessing very private things. In a world with "It Gets Better" videos where people are trying to keep themselves alive and speak out to other people and are really brave and courageous.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingRealSpeakStuffAliveHonestyGoes OnInternetBraveAvailableVideoVulnerableGet BetterCourageousYoutubeSpeaks OutConfessingIt Gets BetterPrivate Things Author:James Ponsoldt
“People will suffer and so will nature, but life is likely to go on with a great deal of loss and mourning. Human adaptability and resilience will still be alive, and so will that great need and resource of ours called love.” PeopleNeedsHumansStillsLife IsSufferingLossDealsAliveGoes OnResourcesResilienceMourningLife Is LikeAdaptability Author:Dale Jamieson
“I bring my attention to my hands on the steering wheel and notice how the chatter in my mind begins to fall away as my breathing slows. I'm awake and alive, simply driving the car going where I need to go, on time and in time. A still point of the turning world. With that awareness, I bring my attention into my body, and the body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.” WorldNeedsMindStillsMomentsBodyHandsFallAttentionAliveAwarenessCarGoes OnDrivingBreathingAwakeWheelsPresent MomentTimelessDoorwaysChatterSteeringLive Simply Author:Roger Housden
“If you are resentful, you keep the thing alive. So the way to go on is to get rid of it, in order to forgive in order to forget.” IfsWayOrderForgetAliveGoes OnForgivingResentful Author:Louise Bourgeois
“I've discovered that, in order for life to go on, you have to believe in necessary fantasies such as what you think is going to happen next week will actually happen, the people who are alive right now will be alive next week.” PeopleThinkingBelieveHappensOrderNextFantasyAliveWeekGoes OnRight NowNext Week Author:Decca Aitkenhead