{"quotes":[{"text":"SINK OR SWIM ALERTFolks with low self-esteem will push you under to save their drowning egosKamil Ali.","author":"Kamil Ali","tags":["alert","ali","dawn","drowning","esteem","kamil","kamilthe","self","spawn"],"id":35663,"author_id":"Kamil+Ali"},{"text":"Start with very small experiments. When anger arises, stop! What is the hurry? When you feel hatred, wait! There should be some interval. Reply only when you are fully conscious – not until that. You will find that all that is sinful in life has fallen away from you; all that is wrong is banished forever. You will suddenly discover, there is no need to respond to anger. Perhaps you might feel like thanking the man who insults you. Because he has obliged you. He gave you an opportunity to awaken.Kabir has said stay near the one who is critical of you. Look after him and serve him who is abusing you because it is he who gives you the opportunity to awaken.All the occasions that drown you in unconsciousness can be turned into stepping stones to awareness if you wish so. Life is like a huge boulder lying in the middle of the road. Those who are foolish, see the stone as a barrier and turn back. For them the road is closed. Those who are clever, climb the stone and use it as a step. And the moment they make it a stepping stone greater heights are available to them.A seeker should keep in mind only one factor, and that is: to utilize each moment to awaken awareness. Then be it hunger or anger or lust or greed, every state can be utilized towards awareness.","author":"Osho","tags":["alert","anger-management","awareness","conciosness","managing-emotions"],"id":87720,"author_id":"Osho"},{"text":"Acts don't mean anything. Acts do not matter--you,your awareness, your being conscious,mindful, is what matters. What you do is not the concern.","author":"Osho","tags":["alert","awareness","dream-job"],"id":89164,"author_id":"Osho"},{"text":"Opportunity does not waste time with those who are unprepared.","author":"Idowu Koyenikan","tags":["alert","alertness","mentally-sharp","opportunism","opportunist","opportunities","opportunities-in-life","opportunity","opportunity-knocks","opportunity-life","opportunity","opportunity-society","preparation","prepare-to-win","prepare-yourself-for-victories","prepared-mind","preparedness","preparing-yourself"],"id":225850,"author_id":"Idowu+Koyenikan"},{"text":"As humanity progresses its technology on a global level, the observed degradation of natural processes and growth cycles are the alarm systems that nature uses to alert us that some of this progress is biologically toxic.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["alarm","alert","biologically","cycles","degradation","environment","environmental","environmentalism","global","growth","humanity","level","natural","nature","observed","processes","progress","progresses","systems","technology","toxic","us","uses"],"id":231434,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"The number of your antagonists are far more greater than that of your companions, so you have to keep a stone of awareness to mark the boundary line.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["alert","antagonists","awarenessa","boundary","companion","cruel","cruelty","dare-devils","devils","enemies","friendships","harmful","hate","haters","hatred","kill","killer","killers","michael-bassey-johnson","negative","negative-people","pretenders","relationships","stone","sycophants","unfriendly-friends","villain","watchful","wolves"],"id":249374,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"When the river of emotions bursts its banks and expectations go over the edges of reality, the brain creates hallucinations. Ringxiety-stricken people feel illusive vibrating alerts and hear phantom phone rings, since absence of ringing generates scaring emptiness and destroys their self-esteem. ('Kein Schwein ruft mich an' ).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["absence","alert","banks","brain","burst","create","destroy","edge","emotions","emptiness","expectations","feel","generate","hallucinations","hear","illusive","people","phantom","phantoms-in-the-brain","phone","reality","ring","ringing","ringxiety","river","scaring","schwein","self-esteem","stricken","vibrate"],"id":265896,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"Life has it woes so learn to be on your toes, be alert.","author":"Bernard Kelvin Clive","tags":["alert","caution","learn"],"id":276988,"author_id":"Bernard+Kelvin+Clive"},{"text":"Watch out for those who celebrate your success with bitterness in their hearts!  Surely, they'll hail you for what you are, and hate you for what you have become.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["alert","bitterness","celebration","celebrity","competition","critics","damage","envy","hail","haters-gonna-hate","hatred","heart","losers","modesty","pretence","rebel","success","watch-out"],"id":284425,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"You go on trying and trying, and you make many decisions and you take many vows,but nothing happens -- you remain the same. Not that you have not tried,not that you have not tried enough, you have tried and tried and tried. And you fail because it is not a question of effort. More effort won't help. It is a question of being alert, not of effort.","author":"Osho","tags":["alert","aware","bliss","failure","happiness","hard-work","success"],"id":285537,"author_id":"Osho"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}