John Keats
Poet
"Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me."
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Alertness
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Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity."
Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning."
Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness."
Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without."
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"The restful alertness response reverses the aging process."
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"I am not my thoughts, feelings, circumstances of changing events in life, I am the awareness, the alertness, the changeless which remains present behind it."
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"If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having."
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"You simply have to surrender to the present moment. Be alert. Watch something in a state of alertness. Always, continuously, bring that into everyday life, not spirituality here and getting on with your life there."
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