"To think and to be fully alive are the same."

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Source : Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Hannah Arendt

#Thinking Quotes #Alive Quotes #Awareness Quotes

“Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin.Â The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip.Â What a shock to our complacency- that everything of us by nature belongs to sin.Â Our silences belong to sin, our omissions belong to sin, our talents belong to sin, our actions belong to sin.Â Every facet of our personalities belong to sin; it own us and dominates us.Â We are its servants.”
“Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.”
“I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.”
“A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains and legumes, your pick of dairy products, fresh meats and fish and a whole slew of special gluten-free delights to satisfy your pretzel-bagel-muffin-doughnut craving.”
“The thing Iâ€™m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what Iâ€™m going to do. Of not knowing what Iâ€™m doing right now”
“Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation.”

Source : Murray N. Rothbard (2004). “Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition”, p.1256, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“I teach that the foundation for our practice is being able to go inward and disconnect from the busyness of our thoughts, that focusing the mind on bodily sensations and breath will ground us in the present moment. Yoga is about realizing who you really are, aside from your persona.”
“I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?”

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