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“And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world around me disappears, and something starts to hum inside my head. Far off, voices try to bump up against me, but I repel them. My ears fill up with water and I focus on the humming in my head.”

World Trying Feelings Voice Water Attention Focus Ears Disappear Curious Emptiness Detachment Numb Bumps Numbness Humming

Book:Madness: A Bipolar Life

Source: Madness: A Bipolar Life

“To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood and the water will rise and we are in altered states of attention.”

States Energy Water Attention Flood Collecting Altered Altered States

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tried to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.”

Firsts Water Pay Attention Watches Baby Picks Red Fingers Smell Circles Pay Attention Concentration Pushing Salt Breeze Thumbs Ponds Hawks Salt Water

Author:Anna Quindlen

“The most important thing regardless of my stats or anybody else's stats is the win-loss record. In the locker room people are always telling me, you're doing this and that. I don't really pay that much attention so long as we have a 'W' in that column; that's the kind of thing that makes me really happy. It blows all stats out of the water.”

People Kind Long Important Winning Water Loss Rooms Pay Attention Records Important Things Blow Columns Really Happy Lockers Locker Room

Author:Dhani Jones

“Avoid the necessity of a physician, if you can, by careful attention to your diet. Eat what best agrees with your system, and resolutely abstain from what hurts you, however well you may like it. A few days' abstinence, and cold water for a beverage, has driven off many an approaching disease.”

Ifs Wells May Water Hurt Attention Health Cold Disease Agree Careful Driven Diets Physicians Abstinence Beverages Cold Water

Author:Lydia M. Child

“Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.”

Matter Sound Water Common Attention Air Direct Sight Common Sense Contact Chemicals Sight And Sound

Book:Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell

Source: Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell

“It's a real misconception that water is a problem in Africa only. It's also an issue in Nepal, in Honduras, and in the United States of America. If we don't start paying attention now and curb our use and stop taking it for granted, we're going to be in a bad place, like everyone else.”

Ifs Real States Use Problem America Water United Attention United States Issues Granted Pay Attention United States Of America Misconception Curb Nepal Honduras

Author:Kenna

“I'm lucky with my skin - it doesn't require a lot of attention, so I keep things simple. And I drink a lot of water.”

Water Simple Attention Drink Lucky Skins

Author:Arizona Muse

“The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business of love is to drown in the sea. Intellectuals plan their repose; lovers are ashamed to rest. The lover is always alone. even surrounded by people; like water and oil, he remains apart. The man who goes to the trouble of giving advice to a lover get nothing. He's mocked by passion. Love is like musk. It attracts attention. Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.”

Source: Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey

“Much of the attention on oceans has portrayed oceans as a villain. Warm water strengthened Hurricane Katrina that pounded Louisiana. Rising sea level will flood islands and coastal areas. Or, we're talking about new opportunities like a new shipping lane in the Arctic because of melting sea ice. These may be the obvious problems, but they're probably not the biggest ones.”