“Allow yourself to experience fully every step of the journey, both the joy and the pain. You're alive. Greet the moment at hand with a grateful heart.” HeartMomentsHandsPainJoyStepsAliveJourneyGratefulEvery StepGrateful Heart Author:Eleanor Brown
“This is what metaphor is. It is not saying that an ant is an elephant. Perhaps; both are alive. No. Metaphor is saying the ant is an elephant. Now, logically speaking, I know there is a difference. If you put elephants and ants before me, I believe that every time I will correctly identify the elephant and the ant. So metaphor must come from a very different place than that of the logical, intelligent mind. It comes from a place that is very courageous, willing to step out of our preconceived ways of seeing things and open so large that it can see the oneness in an ant and in an elephant.” IfsKnowsWayMindBelieveDifferentI BelieveDifferencesStepsAliveSeeingWillingIntelligentMetaphorOnenessLogicalCourageousElephantsAntsDifferent Place Author:Natalie Goldberg
“Animation remove you from a visual reality - if it was live action, you wouldn't be able to see through the person's mind. But animation takes a step away. It creates a very stylized landscape, but at the same time it is the form that is best able to address the reality of being alive and being in pain.” IfsMindPersonsRealityAbleActionPainFormStepsAliveLandscapeVisualsAddressesRemoveAnimation Author:Signe Baumane
“You only need to walk in mindfulness, making peaceful, happy steps on our planet. Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing. Be aware that the sky is blue and the birds' songs are beautiful. Enjoy being alive and you will help the living Christ and the living Buddha continue for a long, long time.” NeedsLongHelpingBeautifulTimeSongEnjoyChristWalksStepsAliveSkyPlanetsWalkingMindfulnessLong TimeBirdBlueBreatheHappyPeacefulBreathingOur PlanetMaking PeaceBird Song Book:Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition
“Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an infinite array of hands and crests that reveal anonymous faces. On a good day, the clouds part to alight on-lo and behold-an island! I step ashore, only find that it too is made of people, mangled bodies somehow still alive. They grab at my feet, pulling me under like quicksand. The last thing I see before suffocating is the sky, a billion eyes staring down, blinking in undulating electric ripples. The cold rain I feel on my cheeks is the tears of the people.” PeopleFeelsMadeStillsBodyHandsEyeLastsFacesStepsAliveSeaFeetSkyTearsColdRainInfiniteCloudsWaveBillionsStaringIslandsSurvivorSoleCheeksElectricPullingGood DayRippleRowingShipwreckSuffocatingQuicksand Author:Richard M. Nixon
“There is no soul; there is only consciousness, the highest thing man ever has! Losing the conscious means to die! Death is not a door; when our conscious is gone, all is gone! Only the existence has the doors! Only the life presents you doors! You can save yourself only when you are alive, not after because there is no after! The first step for salvation is to know this simple truth!” KnowsMenLifeFirstsMeanSoulDiesSimpleExistenceConsciousnessStepsGoneAliveDoorsHighestLosingConsciousSalvationFirst StepsTruth Of LifeSimple TruthsSave Yourself Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“That is a goal, to step out on stage and to actually be present. Honestly alive and present. Although, it doesn't always happen. We're fallible, we're imperfect. That's what a lot of books are written about; that's what a lot of religions have sought after is that kind of zen mentality of just being totally neutral and open and vulnerable to all of the forces in the universe without being attached to them.” KindBookHappensUniverseForceGoalStepsAliveWrittenStageHonestlyVulnerableImperfectMentalityJust Being Author:Dan Mangan
“I think that people have some sort of vision that everybody is moving towards perfection, and that there is some sort of set steps or something like that that you can move through to get to that place, and that that's sort of the project of being alive.” PeopleThinkingMovingVisionStepsAliveProjectsPerfection Author:Ayana Mathis
“I think that the project of being alive is to be alive. So there will always be twists and turns and steps forward and steps back, but that's just your life. There is no sort of place at which to arrive, and I think that the more one focuses on an end point, the harder it is to get there. It's like the horizon, sort of ever receding, ever receding, ever receding.” ThinkingEndsTurnsStepsAliveProjectsHarderHorizonTwistsSteps ForwardTwists And Turns Author:Ayana Mathis
“I love to think of the whole universe together as one eternal fact. I love to think that everything is alive; that crystallization is itself a step toward joy. I love to think that when a bud bursts into blossom: it feels a thrill. I love to have the universe full of feeling and full of joy, and not full of simple dead, inert matter, managed by an old bachelor for all eternity.” ThinkingFeelsMatterWholeFactsFeelingsTogetherJoyUniverseSimpleStepsAliveEternalEternityThrillBudBachelorsTogether As One Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll