"As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living."

Awareness, Life, Presence, Mindfulness

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"As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living."

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"Complex steels our energy with the help of misgivings, strains, and fear of consequences for wrong decisions."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"When we become quiet at the collapsed value system in our nation, iniquity and injustice would eventually overrun that nation if action is not taken promptly."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Our head is designed to broaden our perspective regarding the world around us."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"You cannot see God until you notice people."

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"This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with nothing to do."

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"Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hears men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil?"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"A heartful mind can always see better than mindless eyes."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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"When someone finds his or her mind is not free or in mental bondage, such a person might as well not be free physically."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting."

Dave Eggers, American Writer

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"You should look inside of yourself and see the person who is there."

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Explore more quotes by Dan Groat

"A silence overtook the odd family in their odd surroundings as loss became the mockery of the moment, and they were caught up in the emotional release that is common in a theater audience after the sudden ending of a tragic movie; the curtain closes and the people are still in their seats, numb and sighing their way back into reality."

Loss

"Those who show no loyalty give up the right to expect any."

Loyalty

"The gear teeth of his mind, the cogs of the brain's machinery that propelled his thoughts, were grinding to a halt, too long forced to fight against the friction of agony without the aid of hope, the lubricant for the soul."

Hope

"Porches could be cleaned with a broom in a few minutes, but the soul could not be swept. It had to be shaken. And shaking the loess from a soul took a lifetime and more strength than most people had."

Soul

"Our bird of hope was being denied the altitude it sought, just free enough to fly dangerously close to the reality of the treetops."

Hope

"Does the plain, simple beauty of life get buried under society's so-called required daily activities or is that just true of me? No, I know I'm not alone in that feeling. We all get caught up in the making and spending of money. I know it's not just me."

Contentment

"Evil stinks and it doesn't disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed."

Evil

"Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans."

Reading

"Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don't."

Power

"There's nothing wrong with fighting when you have no choice. As a matter of fact, it's what you should do, but when you fight, fight to win."

Courage