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“You have to be again innocent, ignorant, not knowing anything, so that the questions can start arising again. Again the inquiry becomes alive, and with the inquiry becoming alive you cannot vegetate. Then life becomes an exploration, an adventure.”

Motivational Knowing Alive Adventure Becoming Ignorant Innocent Exploration Not Knowing Inquiry

Author:Rajneesh

“I consider myself one of the most fortunate of men, to have lived at a time when some of the old Haidas and their peers among the Northwest Coast peoples were still alive, and to have had the privilege of knowing them.”

Men Stills Knowing Alive Gratitude Privilege Fortunate Peers Coast

Author:Bill Reid

“Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge. And meaninglessness is no threat so long as enthusiasm for the universe and for man as its center is alive.”

Men Wells Long Universe Answers Knowing Doubt Alive Creating Tools Threat Enthusiasm Meaninglessness

Book:The Courage To Be

Source: The Courage To Be

“When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure--with a sense of mystery and not-knowing. Instead of searching for answers that make you feel safe, you set out into the vastness of life and death, with a willingness to continually grow. You open up to the possibility that your ordinary life is an extraordinary adventure, and that your joys and sorrows have meaning. Spiritual practice becomes your rudder, offering direction and insight and discretion as you venture into the unknown.”

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

“The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first.”

Firsts Lasts Knowing Alive Last Time

Book:Mama Day: A Novel

Source: Mama Day: A Novel

“I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me. Sometimes a piece of hubcap fits in such a way that the shark becomes almost alive in my hands, climbing, twisting or just hanging motionless and predatory, and this gives me a buzz. It makes me feel like a vehicle for the creation process rather than a controller, and not knowing the exact outcome is exciting.”

“We're just animals, creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we're alive, and we're going to die without ever knowing any purpose. We can pretend all we want and we can wish all we want, but that basic existential fact remainswe can't know.”

Knows Want Enough Facts Purpose Dies Wish Animal Knowing Alive Creatures Smart Remains Existential Unlucky

Book:The Tenth Insight: A Pocket Guide (Storycuts)

Source: The Tenth Insight: A Pocket Guide (Storycuts)

“Part of the fun of being alive is knowing that you're annoying the hell out of someone else.”

Fun Hell Knowing Alive Annoying

Author:Matt Groening

“The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of.”

Feels Knowing Alive

Author:India.Arie

“Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction.”

Feels Challenges Differences Knowing Our Lives Alive Progress Equal Bigger Satisfaction Connected Critical Engaged Sanity Engagement Fulfilled Pathways

Book:The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

Source: The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“There's a sense of trajectories that are extraordinary about a life like this. You can reconnect with people and go back to playing with them after years and years of not even knowing if they're alive.”

People Ifs Years Knowing Alive Extraordinary Trajectory

Author:David Toop

“There's no greater feeling in the world than doing something you truly love. Knowing how much you've sacrificed, how many times you might have failed, but sticking to it, and the moment when everything comes together is what makes me feel alive.”

World Feels Moments Feelings Might Together Knowing Greater Alive

Author:T. Mills

“I know that I can forever walk the streets, drive the freeways, and be alive knowing that I created something with someone whom I love so very much that is such a powerful force. I would love for people to hear it the way I hear it [Forest Green].”

People Knows Way I Can Force Walks Powerful Forever Knowing Alive Streets Green Forests Freeways

Author:Andy Kim