"Become conscious of being conscious."

-- Eckhart Tolle

#Spiritual Quotes #Conscious Quotes

“What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.”

Source : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.56, Open Road Media
“Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would they spread accusations with no basis? Why would they refuse to correct their arguments once they had been shown to be incorrect? And why did the press continue to quote them, year after year, even as their claims were shown, one after another, to be false?”
“Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.”
“You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.”
“Technology fuels economy, unfortunately in todayâ€™s world itâ€™s the fuel that drags economy”
“Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.”
“I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.”
“To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.”

Source : "We could be heroes: an election-year letter" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2012.

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