“To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited by the physical brain and the speed of light_ seem like some hopelessly sleepy and plodding event. Our truest, deepest self is completely free. It is not crippled or compromised by past actions or concerned with identity or status. It comprehends that it has no need to fear the earthly world, and therefore, it has no need to build itself up through fame or wealth or conquest.” ThinkingWorldNeedsSelfSeemsActionPastWealthBrainEventsIdentityFameOrdinaryConcernedAspectConnectionsSpeedConquestTruestSleepyCrippledInstantaneousSpeed Of Light Author:Eben Alexander
“Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.” WorldWayGivingSelfWholeFormOpportunityLevelsMeditationOrdinaryConnectionsDeeperFishingCommunionGood WayFunny Fishing Author:Ted Hughes
“Now when you transfer into the conscious parenting paradigm, you have to release those pressures and those fears... you actually think into the very ordinary but profound moment to moment connection to your children and you do away with those extraneous attachments to achievement or beauty or wealth or success. And while those things have their place, they don't overwhelm or override the life of the parent and child. Your life is actually suddenly liberated.” ThinkingChildrenMomentsLife IsParentWealthAchievementOrdinaryConsciousConnectionsPressureOur ChildrenProfoundReleaseYour ChildrenAttachmentParadigmLiberatedTransfersChildren And Parents Author:Shefali Tsabary
“It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the more. When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, a family line, connection.” WantHumansChildrenLittlesEnoughWantedHouseLinesCommonOrdinaryConnectionsWoundedOrdinary Life Author:Ian Mcewan
“For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.” MenWorldHumansHas BeensStoriesLiteratureImaginationFictionWrittenHeardOrdinaryMen And WomenTraditionLaborConnectionsFolksTalesFairyOur WorldFairy TaleHuman HistoryOrdinary ManOral Tradition Book:Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales Source: Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
“Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no one ever mentioned it, an immediate sensual connection to people and events, and to her own needs and desires? All these years she had lived in isolation within herself and, strangely, from herself, never wanting or daring to look back.” PeopleNeedsYearsLooksLongDesireSimpleTakenEventsOrdinaryConnectionsTricksSensualIsolationMechanismDaring Author:Ian Mcewan
“The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of the organic world & its connection with the time past & with Man; that it involves the question of Man & his relation to the brutes, of instinct, intelligence & reason, of Creation, transmutation & progressive improvement or development. Each set of geological questions & of ethnological & zool. & botan. are parts of the great problem which is always assuming a new aspect.” MenWorldReasonWholeProblemPastScienceCreationDevelopmentEvolutionOrdinaryAspectConnectionsRelationAssumingInstinctSpeciesImprovementProgressiveBrutesNaturalistGrapplingTimes PastTransmutation Author:Charles Lyell
“Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle. We come awake to such a realization when we recognize our connection to a spiritual dimension.” SpiritualTurnsAliveAwarenessPlanetsBecomingOrdinaryConnectionsMiracleAppreciationRealizationAwakeDimensionsOrdinary LifeLife AppreciationSpiritual Dimensions Author:Dan Wakefield
“Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory.” PeopleUsedWomenAbilityHistoryTalentGreatnessGloryOrdinaryWeaknessIdealsConnectionsAssumingExtraordinaryLimitationExceptionalOrdinary PeopleShowcase Author:Nancy Leigh DeMoss