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“Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.”

Whole Past Young Clear Alive Awareness Clean Whole Life Arise Dust Burning Smoke Flames Dropping

Author:Rajneesh

“When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole wilderness is unity and interrelation, is alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.”

Trying Whole Seems Science Humanity Universe Alive Picks Stones Unity Familiar Wilderness Sympathetic Brotherly Talkative

Author:John Muir

“The most important part of the practice is for the question to remain alive and for your whole body and mind to become a question. In Zen they say that you have to ask with the pores of your skin and the marrow of your bones. A Zen saying points out: Great questioning, great awakening; little questioning, little awakening; no questioning, no awakening.”

Mind Littles Important Whole Body Asks Practice Alive Skins Bones Awakening Questioning Mind And Body Marrow

Author:Martine Batchelor

“My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.”

Giving Looks Whole Term Alive Painting Ambition Mark Surface Constructs Intervals My Ambition

Author:Andrew Forge

“To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.”

Ifs World Whole Hate Turns Voice Alive Possibility Embrace Instinct Whole World Teeth Tone Hopeful Endurance Feathers Turn-on Stunned

Book:High Tide in Tucson

Source: High Tide in Tucson

“Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.I say that information doesn't deserve to be free.Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not?...Information is alienated experience.”

Ifs Thinking Want Firsts Humans Said Ideas Real Whole Seems Earth Stuff Alive Information Ambition Deserve Mere Brands What If Founders Artifacts Human Thought

Book:You Are Not a Gadget

Source: You Are Not a Gadget

“I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long--discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive; it had no spirit. It was fake.”

Long Made Whole Wanted Spirit Felt Alive Whole Life Made It Fake Metals Discovering Chasing Rabbits Catching Greyhounds

Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“The whole past and the whole world are alive in my heart, and I shall do my part to communicate their presence to my readers.”

World Heart Whole Past Alive Reader My Heart Communicate Whole World

Book:A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C

Source: A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C