“I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am - of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain - or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things ... I have no idea whatever of my soul.” ThinkingIdeasSoulPainSufferingTurnsPassionAwarenessCapacityRelationMy SoulNo IdeaMutualFacultySensationsMy ThoughtsMy PassionSensory Author:Nicolas Malebranche
“I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.” WritingTurnsGrowingAwarenessPresses Author:Ken Livingstone
“There are so many things that can provide us with peace. Next time you take a shower or a bath, I suggest you hold your big toes in mindfulness. We pay attention to everything except our toes. When we hold our toes in mindfulness and smile at them, we will find that our bodies have been very kind to us. We know that any cell in our toes can turn cancerous, but our toes have been behaving very well, avoiding that kind of problem. Yet, we have not been nice to them at all. These kinds of practices can bring us happiness.” KnowsWellsKindHas BeensProblemBodyBigsTurnsNextPayAttentionPracticeNiceAwarenessMindfulnessCellsPay AttentionShowersNext TimeToesAvoidingBaths Author:Nhat Hanh
“Witches try to 'connect' with the world around them. Witchcraft, they say, is about the tactile, intuitive understanding of the turn of the seasons, the song of the birds; it is the awareness of all things as holy.” WorldTryingSongTurnsUnderstandingNatureAwarenessHolyBirdAll ThingsSeasonsOnenessHolinessWitchIntuitiveWitchcraftTactile Author:Tanya Luhrmann
“Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action” PeopleArtActionSufferingTurnsAwarenessMines Author:Gabrielle Roth