Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
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Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way.
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.
Train your mind to see in all people, what they do not see in themselves. Begin to treat every person you come in contact with as the most important person in the world. Look at them with new awareness.
It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization- a movement.
The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually functions in the society, and the faculty has caught the message and they do it magnificently.
Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
The most powerful way to manifest is through subtle intention and choiceless awareness-inten d to let go and flow.
Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm of time and mind, and lost awareness of Being. At that point, they started to perceive themselves as meaningless fragments in an alien universe, unconnected to the Source and to each other.
Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.
The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness.
Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness and become like groveling animals who live primarily for survival and propagation. People who exist on that level aren't living; they are "being lived".
What we get from each moment depends on the attention we give it, and the quality of our experience reflects the quality of our awareness.
Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.
What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy.
If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.
It is Love and the Lover that live eternally -_x000D_ _x000D_ Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.
I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make a beginning-it is not as hard as you think.
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