“The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman. One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace of worldliness. How hard the rishis laboured ! Early in the morning they would go away from the hermitage, and would spend the whole day in solitude, meditating on Brahman. At night they would return to the hermitage and eat a little fruit or roots. They kept their mind aloof from the objects of sight, hearing, touch, and other things of a worldly nature. Only thus did they realize Brahman as their own inner conciousness.” WorldMindLittlesLongHardWholeNightRealizingMorningObjectsReturnSolitudeRootsSightFruitHearingGoing AwayWorldlyMeditatingAloofBrahmanWorldliness Author:Ramakrishna
“A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are. If he encounters it in the morning and does not deal with it at once, he experiences defeat the whole day long.” IfsLongDoeWholeChristianSpiritRealizingDealsMorningOughtWeightDefeatEncounters Author:Watchman Nee
“Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. So sensitive and so suspicious in the face of the wicked, civilized west. I shall always remember you slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion - pumping hot water into our sleeping car in the frosty darkness of a December morning in order that we might not know, in order that we might never realize, to how primitive a land we had come.” KnowsMightRememberFacesOrderWaterRealizingSleepMorningDarknessLandCarHotWestDeterminedRussiaCleverConfusionSensitiveWickedAshamedDeceitCivilizedPrimitiveSuspiciousShoutingDecemberRemember YouRemembers YouHot Water Author:George F. Kennan
“The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what you thought was infinitely prolonged has ended.” YearsRealizingPleasureMorningFiveSadnessYouthWake UpSpeedPassingPassingsFive Years Author:Derek Tangye
“I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.” KnowsWantYearsMadeAbleTimeRealizingMorningCuttingConversationSuicideNineObsessionInsaneThroatEvery MorningPsychiatryPsychiatristAsylumsNine YearsInsane Asylum Author:Antonin Artaud
“The etiquette business has its emergencies, heaven knows, but it is in the nature of etiquette emergencies that once one realizes what one has done, it is too late. One might as well get a good night's sleep and send flowers with an apology in the morning.” KnowsWellsDoneMightNightHeavenRealizingSleepMorningFlowerLateToo LateApologyEmergenciesEtiquetteGood Night Author:Judith Martin
“I've been moving a little to the music while I worked ...and then I realize I am actually dancing. It feels wonderful, though I can feel how stiff my muscles are, how rigidly I've been holding myself...Mostly I've been moving cautiously, numbly, steeled because I know, at any moment, I may be ambushed by overwhelming grief. You never know when it's coming, the word or gesture or bit of memory that dissolved you entirely...It happens every day at first, then not for a day or two, then there's a week when grief washes in every morning, every afternoon.” KnowsFeelsFirstsMayLittlesI CanTwoMomentsHappensMovingBitsRealizingMemoriesGriefMorningWonderfulWeekDancingMusclesOverwhelmingAfternoonGesturesEvery Morning Author:Mark Doty
“Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what's important and what's not important. Little things don't usually get to me anymore.” IfsWayLittlesStillsImportantHelpingRealizingSilenceMorningNiceMeditationMinutesTwentiesLittle ThingsWhat's Important Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“Each of our cells is a living entity, and the main thing that influences them is our blood. If I open my eyes in the morning and my beautiful partner is in front of me, my perception causes a release of oxytocin, dopamine, growth hormones - all of which encourage the growth and health of my cells. But if I see a saber tooth tiger, I'm going to release stress hormones which change the cells to a protection mode. People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the genes.” PeopleIfsNeedsEyeBeautifulCausesGrowthRealizingMorningEnvironmentBloodInfluenceFrontsPerceptionStressProtectionPartnersTeethReleaseCellsPrimariesGenesEntityOur ThoughtsTigersHormonesDopamineOxytocinGrowth HormonesStress Release Author:Bruce H. Lipton
“To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it has no horse-power. Sometimes I think that perhaps the most competent business men, and lawyers and doctors, who must be at the office at nine o'clock every morning, do not realize this and take more credit for initiative and industry than they deserve. And it is why all the bright women of the world, who if more were expected of them, might do important work, but who instead have a chronic feeling of ineffectiveness and sloth.” IfsThinkingMenWorldImportantSometimesFeelingsMightJobsRealizingWorkMorningIndustryOfficeDeserveDoctorsHorsePressureCreditExpectedLawyerNineEmploymentClockInitiativeEvery MorningIdlenessMotorAstonishingDoctor WhoCompetentSlothBusiness ManImportant WorkIneffectiveness Author:Brenda Ueland
“God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It is his solicitude that wraps us in the air, and the pressure of his hand, so to speak, that keeps our pulses beating. O! it is a great thing to realize that the Divine Power is always working; that nature, in every valve and every artery, is full of the presence of God.” LooksGodHandsEyeSpeakRealizingMorningSunAirDivinePressureGreat ThingsStreamsMidnightHis LoveWrapsPulsePresence Of GodDivine PowerArteriesAlways WorkingValveSolicitudeBeneficenceMorning Sun Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“I realize that I want something more. Success is great, but then you also wake up in your hotel room at four in the morning and you're like, wouldn't it be nice to have someone here with me.” WantRealizingRoomsMorningFourNiceWake UpHotelBeing NiceWant SomethingHotel Rooms Author:Alicia Keys
“Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.” RealizingPoorMorningWake UpNightmare Author:Gore Vidal
“Sometimes I'll dream that I saw a show and then I'll wake up in the morning and realize that I didn't see the show, that it was my dream. And I just remember what the paintings look like in the dream and I think, "Oh, nobody painted those. I can do that."” ThinkingLooksI CanSometimesShowsDreamRememberCan DoRealizingMorningSawsPaintingWake Up Author:Julian Schnabel
“The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?” IfsWould BeRealizingMorningWonderfulTomorrowCatOrganizationIntegrationTomorrow MorningNaacp Author:Dick Gregory
“Maybe I don't think I'm touching people, but I am. Sometimes I'm sitting there at three in the morning, proofreading something, and I'm thinking, Is this really worth it? Or am I doing this only because my mother taught me never to give up? Then you realize, no, even if it doesn't come back to you, you are touching people.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingSometimesMotherThreeRealizingMorningTaughtGiving UpSittingTouchingWorth ItNever Giving Up Author:Micah Lexier
“I hit my knees every morning and every night to give thanks for being alive and all the blessings I have. And in the middle of chaos, it's been suggested to me to stop and truly look around, notice the sky, the trees, the grass, and realize you're part of it all, which is hard when you really want to focus on what you think is bothering you. However, one of the smartest things I do is check in with my awesome wife, who is really good at screwing my head back on when needed.” ThinkingWantGivingLooksHardNightRealizingMorningFocusAliveWifeTreeSkyMiddleNeededBlessingChaosChecksThanksBotherGrassKneesEvery NightEvery MorningBothering You Author:Patrick Fabian
“President Carter famously said the hostages were the first thing he thought about in the morning and the last thing he thought about at night. It was a downright foolish thing to say, because it made the people holding the hostages realize that they had an awful lot of influence over the United States.” PeopleFirstsMadeSaidStatesLastsNightPresidentRealizingUnitedMorningUnited StatesInfluenceFoolishAwfulCarterHostagePresident Carter Author:Ted Koppel
“To keep my head healthy, [I'm] trying to meditate every morning, which is something I'm sort of getting into more, realizing that it's really positive to do every day.” TryingRealizingMorningHealthyEvery MorningReally Positive Author:Erin Richards
“Ghost Team approached me. They said, "Hey, it's mid-October, do you want to go shoot a movie on Long Island for three weeks about stupid people chasing ghosts?" I had never done anything like that before. It's kind of a mock-horror movie. What I didn't realize was the whole thing takes place at night, as a horror movie should, and so I didn't realize that we'd be working until 6 in the morning every night, or morning.” PeopleWantShouldKindLongSaidDoneWholeNightThreeRealizingMorningWeekTeamStupidHorrorGhostHeyIslandsEvery NightThey SaidChasingStupid PeopleOctoberMockLong Island Author:David Krumholtz