Anais Nin on awareness
Anais Nin100 quotes“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.”
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais NinAnais Nin Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais NinAnais Nin I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
Anais NinAnais Nin Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Anais NinAnais Nin I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
Anais NinAnais Nin Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais NinAnais Nin Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
Anais NinAnais Nin Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
Anais NinAnais Nin I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
Anais NinAnais Nin Good things happen to those who hustle.
Anais NinAnais Nin I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais NinAnais Nin Violence is a symptom of impotence.
Anais NinAnais Nin You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
Anais NinAnais Nin I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
Anais NinAnais Nin For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
Anais NinAnais Nin One handles truths like dynamite.
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Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion.
Mata AmritanandamayiMata Amritanandamayi Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one’s being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.
AberjhaniAberjhani The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
AberjhaniAberjhani I want to create awareness amongst the common people of Pakistan and I generally appeal to the Pakistani people living here and abroad for help and they provide me with the necessary resources.
Abdul Sattar EdhiAbdul Sattar Edhi And to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
AberjhaniAberjhani I do this work for the common people and part of that work is creating a general awareness of such problems as they exist because my work is beyond class, religion and creed.
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