{"quotes":[{"text":"If your consciousness is without form, without quality, and without characteristics of any kind, would that not imply that the consciousness in every other being is also formless? And if they are all without form, how can you distinguish their consciousness from your own? What forms would you use to compare them? Isn’t the observing you exactly the same as the observing them?","author":"Joseph P. Kauffman","tags":["acceptance","appreciation","awakening","awareness","awe","bliss","brahman","buddhism","compassion","connection","consciousness","emotional","enjoy","enlightenment","evolution","existence","fear","forgiveness","freedom","god","gratitude","happiness","heart","hinduism","holographic-universe","illusion","journey","joy","life","love","maya","mental","mind","mystery","nature","nirvana","non-resistence","nonduality","now","oneness","path","peace","presence","reality","samadhi","self","self-acceptence","self-love","spirit","spiritual","spirituality","third-eye","truth","unity","universe","wisdom","within","zen"],"id":1788,"author_id":"Joseph+P.+Kauffman"},{"text":"What matters most right now, is what you do next.","author":"Akiroq Brost","tags":["action","focus","presence"],"id":7547,"author_id":"Akiroq+Brost"},{"text":"Grace calls us back to nonduality.","author":"Bert McCoy","tags":["awareness","bliss","divine","grace","love","nonduality","oneness","oneness-with-god","peace","peace-of-mind","presence"],"id":7585,"author_id":"Bert+McCoy"},{"text":"I didn't know who I was any longer, so I just was.","author":"John duover","tags":["moment","presence","reality","true"],"id":12051,"author_id":"John+duover"},{"text":"When we are authentic, when we act out of presence and awareness, it also gives nourishment to the inner being of people around us.","author":"Swami Dhyan Giten","tags":["awareness","meditation","presence","psychology","spirituality","working-with-people"],"id":12980,"author_id":"Swami+Dhyan+Giten"},{"text":"The birds are literal representations of the witnesses of those ordinary and big moments, but they are also metaphors for time itself, for the passing of time. It occurred to me, many years after I had been here, thinking about this idea, that every moment we have with one another is really our only moment, and because of that our every moment could potentially be a goodbye, so we have to notice and notice and notice.","author":"David Gianadda","tags":["metaphor","notice","presence"],"id":16305,"author_id":"David+Gianadda"},{"text":"Let others see their own greatness when looking in your eyes.","author":"Mollie Marti","tags":["authenticity","love","presence","strength"],"id":17468,"author_id":"Mollie+Marti"},{"text":"Stop feeding the ego food, then it will stop asking for more.","author":"Bert McCoy","tags":["awakening","awareness","ego","love","mind","peace-of-mind","presence","realization"],"id":20753,"author_id":"Bert+McCoy"},{"text":"He who sits/stands in front of the fire sees more than the flames.. He feels the heat! Too often from a distance others observe the flames only as a source of light.","author":"Lennox D. Lampkin","tags":["fire","flames-of-fire","heat","perspective","presence","reality"],"id":21833,"author_id":"Lennox+D.+Lampkin"},{"text":"Gratitude does not mean the absence of solitude, but the presence of a positive attitude in spite of.","author":"Gift Gugu Mona","tags":["gratitude","in-spite-of","positve-attitude","presence","solitude"],"id":22200,"author_id":"Gift+Gugu+Mona"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":306,"pages":31,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}