Quotes About Spontaneity

As a result, one of the most universal and distinctive features of optimal experience takes place: people become so involved in what they are doing that the activity becomes spontaneous, almost automatic; they stop being aware of themselves as separate from the actions they are performing.

The same effect can be achieved in different ways, either through perfecting a severe mental discipline as in Yoga or through cultivating constant spontaneity as in Zen. But the intended result is identical: to free inner life from the threat of chaos, on the one hand, and from the rigid conditioning of biological urges, on the other, and hence to become independent from the social controls that exploit both.

a yogi disciplines his mind to ignore pain that ordinary people would have no choice but to let into their awareness; similarly he can ignore the insistent claims of hunger or sexual arousal that most people would be helpless to resist. The same effect can be achieved in different ways, either through perfecting a severe mental discipline as in Yoga or through cultivating constant spontaneity as in Zen.

On days like this, baseball would make Michael as happy as it ever did. No umpires. No coaches. No rules except the ones you made up.

We forewent seeing any D.C. museums or national monuments to order cheeseburgers and watch "Will and Grace" in bed at our hotel, because we are real best friends, not lame fake friends trying to impress each other with how fascinated we are with culture and learning.

We forewent seeing any DC museums or national monuments to order cheeseburgers and watch Will & Grace in bed at our hotel, because we are real best friends, not lame fake friends trying to impress each other with how fascinated we are with culture and learning.

Only through lighting a living fire within ourselves can we dance quickly and spontaneously enough to meet the rhythm of life.

Then Potato ran by. He was a little brown dog, just like the woman said. He tore past me like he was about to miss a plane. He was gone by the time I even realized it had to be Potato. But he looked joyful, and I thought: Good for him. Live the dream, Potato.

Cu neputin?? de spus de ce tr?iesc pe lume unii oameni, care m?nânc? pe apucate, beau pe apucate, dorm pe apucate È™i plodesc pe apucate, niciodat? cu un gând pentru ziua de mâine, niciodat? cu o strângere de inim? pentru ziua de ieri.

I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity.

A decision loses its charm unless you can act on it immediately.

Christine had wanted to continue the conversation where she was, with the unappetising tray of dressings balanced on her hip. The most interesting things never cropped up when you were sitting comfortably in chairs. It was always in transient places like halls or staircases or bathroom doorways that the really important things started to be said and you had to discuss them then and there, because the mood was lost if you moved away to a more suitable place.

Qu'est-ce qu'un rire après tout? Une explosion d'enfance partagée.

there was something about a Friday night in the city with no plans that made you feel like … well, like a bit of a loser.

Violins sound nervously like the buzzing of bees - these are thoughts. Spontaneity is the bridge of consciousness to the subconscious of the true self, that is, sincerity.

Thinking outside of the box is the art of accomplishing things without even borrowing anything from one's memory. Living in the present moment.

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.

Liza, me gustaría fugarme contigo, que nos casáramos por ahí, maldita sea.

You should always play with and not according to the rules, he says, because a life with no danger in it is not a life.

You wild, dear creatures!

She lifted her head, looked at me, and burped.

Two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean unprepared courage.

Don't cross out. (That is editing as you write. Even if you write something you didn't mean to write, leave it.) Don't worry about spelling, punctuation, grammar. (Don't even care about staying within the margins and lines on the page.) Lose control. Don't think. Don't get logical. Go for the jugular. (If something comes up in your writing that is scary or naked, dive right into it. It probably has lots of energy.)

The Now Habit is based on the fact that somewhere in your life there are leisure activities and forms of work that you choose to do without hesitation [...] When you turn your attention toward what you love to do—activities that foster your spontaneity, motivation, and curiosity—you know that you are more than a procrastinator, more than just lazy.