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“A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in which sentiment, idea, and will are confounded together, where for the lack of the powerful corrective of logic, the flights of imagination know no bounds, where life and human activity are deprived of a regulator, and move outside of material and concrete factors, by the sole interior force of the soul.”

“In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions of incompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability to create. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completion date, then do it.”

Inspirational Needs States Energy Loss Ability Results Activity Function Satisfaction Release Items Completion Prioritize Completing

Author:William Arthur Ward

“Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It's not just the absence of thought.”

Mind Different States Levels Meditation Buddhism Activity Mindfulness Absence Engaged Different Levels

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.”

States Action Views Events Buddhism Activity Mindfulness Point Of View Emptiness Over You Performers Precedence

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.”

Humans May States Politics Results Known Taken Risk Activity Judgment Accounts Criminals Graves Inevitable Human Life Engaging Reckless Disregard Implicit

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and other distorted states of consciousness. These imperfect states of mind in turn give rise to imperfect activities, and the seeds of suffering are ever planted in a steady flow.”

Source: The Path to Enlightenment

“In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their ancestors invincible. Every art of corruption would be employed to loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable. When the spirit of liberty which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny.”

“And that is what radio-activity is, a quick return to the state of rest which underlies the spiritual or invisible universe.”

States Spiritual Universe Return Activity Radio Invisible

Author:Walter Russell

“I learned that our deepest need is to overcome our aloneness and our separateness. We seek to escape from separateness in various ways. We seek conformity, mistaking it for union. This is a soul-crushing way to exist. Or we seek union through orgiastic states - drugs, alcoholism, overwork - or through creative activities. But the ultimate escape from separateness is through interpersonal union.”

Way Needs Soul States Motivational Creative Drug Activity Ultimate Overcoming Unions Various Crush Conformity Alcoholism Separateness Overwork Interpersonal

Book:Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

Source: Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

“At every level, from the microcellular to the psychological, exercise not only wards off the ill effects of chronic stress; it can also reverse them. Studies show that if researchers exercise rats that have been chronically stressed, that activity makes the hippocampus grow back to its preshriveled state. The mechanisms by which exercise changes how we think and feel are so much more effective than donuts, medicines, and wine. When you say you feel less stressed out after you go for a swim, or even a fast walk, you are.”

“Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is ... death! Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement.The choice lies with you!”

“The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State. Therefore an effective statement of these activities - e.g. science, art, religion - is in itself a declaration of ultimate aims around which the political means will crystallise... a society with no values outside of politics is a machine carrying its human cargo, with no purpose in its institutions reflecting their care, eternal aspirations, loneliness, need for love.”

Needs Humans Mean Art States Care Political Purpose Values Loneliness Activity Eternal Machines Ultimate Aim Institutions Statements Aspiration Declaration Framework Reflecting Cargo

Author:Stephen Spender

“Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from the oppression of the majority. ... The citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state.”

Source: The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism

“Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.”

States Spirituality Activity Superiors

Author:Anthony de Mello

“State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain.”

States Government Political Social Economic Activity Capitalism Gains Stronger Intelligent Safety Spending Regulation Emergencies Dominance Implementation Safety Net Government Spending

Author:Ian Bremmer

“There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think, when you look at a map that shows widespread influenza activity in 36 states, that we regard it -- from a common-sense perspective -- as an epidemic.”

Thinking Looks States Shows Lines Common Perspective Activity Regard Common Sense Firm Maps Epidemics Dividing Influenza

Author:Julie Gerberding

“Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal Word.”

Should States Divine Activity Eternal Impression Operations Susceptibility

Author:Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon