{"quotes":[{"text":"When I fight off a disease bent on my cellular destruction, when I marvelously distribute energy and collect waste with astonishing alacrity even in my most seemingly fatigued moments, when I slip on ice and gyrate crazily but do not fall, when I unconsciously counter-steer my way into a sharp bicycle turn, taking advantage of physics I do not understand using a technique I am not even aware of using, when I somehow catch the dropped oranges before I know I've dropped them, when my wounds heal in my ignorance, I realize how much bigger I am than I think I am. And how much more important, nine times out of ten, those lower-level processes are to my overall well-being than the higher-level ones that tend to be the ones getting me bent out of shape or making me feel disappointed or proud.","author":"Brian Christian","tags":["consiousness","embodiment","mind"],"id":2675,"author_id":"Brian+Christian"},{"text":"I don't trust anybody who isn't a little bit neurotic.","author":"Mohadesa Najumi","tags":["acceptance","ascension","bell-hooks","brain","connectedness","consciousness","crazy","embodiment","enlightenment","fetters","genius","happiness","heartbreak","life","loss","love","matrix","mental-power","mohadesa","mohadesa-najumi","najumi","neuroscience","normal","norms","osho","pain","philosophy","psycology","relationship","self-awareness","self-help","self-love","self-mastery","society","sociology","spirituality","third-eye","understanding"],"id":9566,"author_id":"Mohadesa+Najumi"},{"text":"In looking at our our individual classroom pedagogies and our isolated artistic endeavors, we must broaden the frame of analysis to consider historical, contextual and institutional assumptions. This means a constant awareness of how the micro-practices of interpersonal dialogue and embodied ways of knowing each other can provide an impetus fro structural change.","author":"Ann Elizabeth Armstrong","tags":["change","dialogue","embodiment","feminism","pedagogy","performance"],"id":40437,"author_id":"Ann+Elizabeth+Armstrong"},{"text":"Life is a useless passion, an exciting journey of a mammal in survival mode. Each day is a miracle, a blessing unexplored and the more you immerse yourself in light, the less you will feel the darkness. There is more to life than nothingness. And cynicism. And nihilism. And selfishness. And glorious isolation. Be selfish with yourself, but live your life through your immortal acts, acts that engrain your legacy onto humanity. Transcend your fears and follow yourself into the void instead of letting yourself get eaten up by entropy and decay. Freedom is being yourself without permission. Be soft and leave a lasting impression on everybody you meet.","author":"Mohadesa Najumi","tags":["acceptance-of-others","ascension","bell-hooks","brain","connectedness","consciousness","crazy","embodiment","enlightenment","fetters","genius","happiness","heartbreak","life","loss","love","matrix","mental-power","mohadesa","mohadesa-najumi","najumi","neuroscience","normal","norms","osho","pain","philosophy","psycology","relationship","self-awareness","self-help","self-love","self-mastery","society","sociology","spirituality","third-eye","understanding"],"id":41025,"author_id":"Mohadesa+Najumi"},{"text":"Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society.","author":"Mohadesa Najumi","tags":["acceptance","ascension","bell-hooks","brain","connectedness","consciousness","embodiment","enlightenment","fetters","happiness","heartbreak","life","loss","love","matrix","mental-power","mohadesa","mohadesa-najumi","najumi","neuroscience","osho","pain","philosophy","psycology","relationship","self-awareness","self-help","self-love","self-mastery","society","sociology","spirituality","third-eye","understanding"],"id":74256,"author_id":"Mohadesa+Najumi"},{"text":"Engagement is the conscious inhabitation of your body and mind. Practice is happening when your open awareness is moving with, in and through your embodied activity. Intrinsic to practice is your conscious participation with your life. Engagement is the conduction of your free and open awareness through your activities, whatever they may be.","author":"Rob McNamara","tags":["awareness","embodiment","engagement","transpersonal"],"id":79207,"author_id":"Rob+McNamara"},{"text":"Your fear of becoming a cliche is what turns you into one. If you remove the fear, we are all really walking contradictions, hypocrites and paradoxical cliches.","author":"Mohadesa Najumi","tags":["acceptance","ascension","bell-hooks","brain","cliche","connectedness","consciousness","embodiment","enlightenment","fetters","happiness","heartbreak","hypocrite","life","loss","love","matrix","mental-power","neuroscience","osho","pain","paradox","philosophy","psycology","relationship","self-awareness","self-help","self-love","self-mastery","society","sociology","spirituality","third-eye","understanding"],"id":81285,"author_id":"Mohadesa+Najumi"},{"text":"I have been at war with parts of myself for so long.","author":"Mohadesa Najumi","tags":["acceptance","ascension","bell-hooks","brain","connectedness","consciousness","embodiment","enlightenment","fetters","happiness","heartbreak","life","loss","love","matrix","mental-power","neuroscience","osho","pain","philosophy","psycology","relationship","self-awareness","self-help","self-love","self-mastery","society","sociology","spirituality","third-eye","understanding"],"id":106361,"author_id":"Mohadesa+Najumi"},{"text":"From birth to death and further onAs we were born and introduced into this world,We had a gift hard to express by wordAnd somewhere in our continuous road,It kind of lost it sense and turned.There was that time we sure remember,When everything was now and 'till foreverChildren with no worries and no regrets,The only goal was making a few friends.But later on everything has changed,By minds that had it all arrangedTo bring the people into stress,Into creating their own mess.We have been slaved by our own mind,Turned into something out of our kindSlowly faded away from the present time,Forced to believe in lies, in fights and crime.They made it clearly a fight of the ego,A never ending war that won't just goThey made it a competitive game,To seek selfish materialistic fame.They turned us one against eachother,Man against man, brother against brotherDividing us by religion and skin color,Making us fight to death over a dollar.Making us lose ourselves in sadly thoughts,Wasting our days by living in the pastDepressed and haunted by the memories,And yet still hoping to fly in our dreams.Some of us tried learning how to dance,Step after step, giving our soul a new chanceSome of us left our ego vanish into sounds,Thus being aware of our natural bounce.Some tried expressing in their rhymes,The voice of a generation which never diesThey reached eternity through poetryLeaving the teachings that shall fulfill the prophecyOthers have found their way through spirituality,Becoming conscious of the human dualitySeeking the spiritual enlightenment,Of escaping an ego-oriented fightingScience, philosophy, religion,Try to explain the human origin.Maybe changes are yet to come,And it shall be better for someDeath's for the spirit not an end,But a relieving of the embodimentSo I believe that furthermore,We'll understand the power of our soulBut leaving behind all we know,And all that we might not yet knowIt all resumes to that certain truth,That we all seek to once conclude.","author":"Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache","tags":["aware","better","birth","born","brother","changes","children","colour","conclude","conscious","dance","death","depressed","dollar","dreams","duality","ego","embodiment","enlightenment","eternity","everything","fame","fight","forever","friends","game","generation","gift","goal","kind","lies","lost","man","memories","mind","minds","natural","origin","past","philosophy","poetry","power","present","prophecy","regrets","religion","remember","rhymes","road","science","seek","selfish","sense","skin","soul","sounds","spiritual","spirituality","teachings","time","truth","war","word","world","worries"],"id":109253,"author_id":"Virgil+Kalyana+Mittata+Iordache"},{"text":"For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.","author":"Chang-rae Lee","tags":["embodiment","humanity","inspirational","self"],"id":150649,"author_id":"Chang-rae+Lee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}