“We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention on your breathing. Gently visualize your inner wisdom as a graceful butterfly. Admire her beauty, and encourage your butterfly to sit on your shoulder and whisper her wisdom in your ear. Be still and listen.” StillsEyeAttentionPracticeFocusMinutesReflectionEarsShouldersAdmireBreathingButterflyHer BeautyInquiring Book:The Woman's Book of Courage: Meditations for Empowerment and Peace of Mind Source: The Woman's Book of Courage: Meditations for Empowerment and Peace of Mind
“the art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the minute. Again, all a reflection of a wider cultural condition. I mean, the art world is slow compared with the music and movie businesses.” WorldMeanArtMinutesConditionsMonthsTasteReflectionMachinesFlavorArt WorldMovie BusinessUnrelentingFlavor Of The Month Author:Barbara Kruger
“I have no ear for music. When I attend a concert, I endeavor gamely to follow the sequence and relationship of sounds but cannot keep it up for more than a few minutes. Visual impressions, reflections of hands in lacquered wood, a diligent bald spot over a fiddle, take over, and soon I am bored beyond measure by the motions of the musicians.” HandsSoundMinutesMusicianReflectionEarsWoodsImpressionSpotsBoredVisualsEndeavorConcertsSequenceDiligentFiddle Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.” PeopleKnowsGivingWellsDoeMightReadingCuttingMinutesReflectionCarefulBreadBread And Butter Author:Arnold Bennett
“Once we have a sense of how long a decision should take, we generally should delay the moment of decision until the last possible instant. If we have an hour, we should wait 59 minutes before responding. If we have a year, we should wait 364 days. Even if we have just half a second, we should wait as long as we possibly can ... Life might be a race against time but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts and stop the clock to process and understand what we are doing and why. A wise decision requires reflection, and reflection requires a pause.” IfsShouldYearsLongMomentsMightLastsWaitingProcessHoursDecisionRaceHalfWiseMinutesReflectionInstinctClockInstantPausesDelayRise AboveRespondingWise DecisionRace Against Time Author:Frank Partnoy
“Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self.” WorldSelfPleasureMinutesReflectionInfiniteBliss Author:Mata Amritanandamayi
“The heroic minute.- It is the time fixed for getting up.- Without hesitation: a supernatural reflection and.-.-.- up! The heroic minute: here you have a mortification that strengthens your will and does no harm to your body.” DoeBodyMinutesReflectionHarmYour BodyFixedHeroicHesitationMortification Author:Josemaria Escriva