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« The Creator has to be experienced beyond the five senses and the only instrument that can experience in this way, for you, is yourself - in the state of thoughtless awareness in which you declare 'I am' and hold it. »
Author: Barry Long
| Keywords:
awareness, beyond, Creator, declare, experienced, five, instrument, in this, senses, sense experience, state, The Five, The State, thoughtless
«Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.»
Author: George Gurdjieff
| Keywords:
awakening, awakenings, Awakening The, begins, brings, certain, changes, inner, instrument, necessity, notices, observation, observing, processes, realization, realizations, The Awakening
«Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.»
Author: George H. Gallup
| Keywords:
gauge, gauged, gauging, instrument, interpretation, in effect, nonsense, opinion poll, Opinion polls, paying, paying attention, pays, poll, polled, Polling, public opinion, public opinion poll, Public opinion polls, views
«The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.»
Author: Jack Brymer
| About:
Ability,
Music
| Keywords:
ability, clarinet, imperfections, instrument, overcome, perfect, play, such
«No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.»
Author: Kenneth Miller
| About:
Music,
Mystery
| Keywords:
acoustic, An electric, electric, expressive, instrument, match, piano, pianos, range, The Piano, The Range
«The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Constitution,
Government,
People
| Keywords:
constitution, constitutions, dominate, dominated by, instrument, interests, lest, restrain, restraining, restrains, the government
«Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.»
Author: Ansel Adams
(Photographer)
| About:
Photography
| Keywords:
come before, domination, impose, instrument, of their own, photograph, photographers, revelation, tenderly, The Domination
«Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
animal, Animal World, arriving, belongs, contradiction, essentially, faculty, former, grasping, instrument, latter, manipulate, manipulated, Manipulating, successfully, The Animal, the help
«Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
instrument, preservation, self-loving, self, self love
«Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Prayer
| Keywords:
amusement, applied, idle, idling, instrument, old woman, potent, prayer, properly, understood
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