{"quotes":[{"text":"Mindfulness \u0026 Meditation help focus on the moment while at the same time knowing we cannot capture that moment, we are in a flow of moments we let flow. We can watch moments in detail without being attached to them. Non-attachment to past \u0026 future stems from this practice. Worry about past or future is wasted energy, however we can observe the past \u0026 learn from it without agonising over it \u0026 trust ourselves to handle the future better. We can celebrate the opportunity to grow as we gain understanding from observation \u0026 experience. We can watch ourselves \u0026 avoid being caught up in over-reactions. 'I am loved, right now, in this moment, I love, and am part of love itself. I am aware of myself at every level - the mental slowing gracefully to sense the spiritual within \u0026 all around, and the physical being still, or moving. I tune in to the flow of life in my body \u0026 the flow of life everywhere. I circulate love with each breath - from without to within \u0026 from within to all around.","author":"Jay Woodman","tags":["awareness","breath","breathing-in-awareness","energy","experience","flow","life","life-philosophy","life","love","meditation","mental","mindfulness","moment","moment-of-being","moments","moments-of-life","moments","movement","non-attachment","observation","over-reaction","physical","reaction","slow-and-steady","slowing-down","stillness","stillness-of-mind","stillness-of-soul","stillness-of-the-mind"],"id":1489,"author_id":"Jay+Woodman"},{"text":"Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["adam-gottbetter","artistic","human-existence","interpretation","observation","observe","philosopher","philosophy-of-life","reaction","reactions","reality-of-life","stimulation","training"],"id":6988,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them.","author":"George Alec Effinger","tags":["attention","marid-audran","observation","paying-attention","people"],"id":11787,"author_id":"George+Alec+Effinger"},{"text":"G. I. Gurdieff, 'Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson'So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be. Mullah's favorite saying. P. 598.","author":"Gurdieff","tags":["attitude-towards-life","being","humor","inspirational","observation","outlook","self","self-knowledge"],"id":13358,"author_id":"Gurdieff"},{"text":"I observed on most collected stones the imprints of innumerable plant fragments which were so different from those which are growing in the Lyonnais, in the nearby provinces, and even in the rest of France, that I felt like collecting plants in a new world... The number of these leaves, the way they separated easily, and the great variety of plants whose imprints I saw, appeared to me just as many volumes of botany representing in the same quarry the oldest library of the world.","author":"Antoine de Jussieu","tags":["france","library","naturalism","naturalist","observation","plants","science"],"id":13887,"author_id":"Antoine+de+Jussieu"},{"text":"I was beginning to think that Simon just had a bad case of OCD, ADD, and PMS. With a little BS and OMG mixed in.","author":"Dannika Dark","tags":["add","bs","character","comical","dannika-dark","funny","humor","observation","ocd","omg","pms","pnr","romance","series","uf","urban-fantasy"],"id":14237,"author_id":"Dannika+Dark"},{"text":"Introspection and observation of others are vital for the ongoing good health of our own psyche; watch, learn and tweak as required.","author":"Sam Owen","tags":["good-health","introspection","learning","observation","psyche","relationships"],"id":14829,"author_id":"Sam+Owen"},{"text":"Christmas comes but once a year, starts in August ends in July.","author":"Benny Bellamacina","tags":["christmas","humour","life","observation","shopping","wisdom"],"id":16374,"author_id":"Benny+Bellamacina"},{"text":"We gain knowledge about the interworking of our personal mind through observation of the external world and personal introspection. Contemplation requires a degree of stillness, the willingness to consider deep thoughts.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["contemplation","introspection","observation","self-awareness","self-awareness","self-knowing","self-knowledge","self-knowledge"],"id":17302,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["absorbent","ambivert","assumption","awareness","bias","cool","crazy","culture","discernment","down-to-earth","extrovert","friendly","intelligent","introversion","introvert","judgment","knowledge","learned","loner","misunderstood","mysterious","normal","observation","odd","prejudgment","prudence","psychology","quiet-people","reality","reflection","shy","silence","social","social-awareness","strange","thinking","underestimated","understanding","weird","wisdom"],"id":17374,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":263,"pages":27,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}