Falling into true love, is not taking a rope to climb out

I moved out of my head office and went out of my mind.

You are the observer who watches your emotions as they push, pull and stretch you.

It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, absolutely free but blind, at the very root of the stupendous edifice of...

A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

a dementia sufferer effuses delight and notices very different things when taken out in her wheelchair. Such people can teach us to see again the little things that make a big difference. They can show...

Cause and effect is the basis of my education, leading me to an essence far more profound than any rule of societal conditioning.

Don’t be fool enough to think you can know a person’s character after a few moments of observation. You can’t. You have no idea where his life began or how his saga has unfolded thus...

WEATHERSThis is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at ‘The Traveller’s...

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.

there is very little ‘of course’ when it comes to custom

But I remember one thing: it wasn’t me that started acting deaf, it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

The unknown is scary the Unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant anytime. But sometimes, that change is the best thing that will ever happen to you.Maybe I don’t have...

I observed on most collected stones the imprints of innumerable plant fragments which were so different from those which are growing in the Lyonnais, in the nearby provinces, and even in the rest of France,...

Not advisable is spread thickly over this entire situation.

Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the...

G. I. Gurdieff, “Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson”So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be. Mullah’s favorite saying. p. 598

Remember yourself. Deep inside, you have an observer, a constant neutral witness to your posture, gesture, facial expression, breathing, taste, impressions of light and sound. Don’t leap to interpret. Just be there and observe.

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech...

Physical vision – one might say scientific vision – brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer’s view of reality as a whole. The geography of the earth, or the structure of the solar system,...

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Silence is more than observation; it informs from non-observation.

The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes to his meridian; but the meteorologist has his observations bounded...

No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.

Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.

If you’ve put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe – to see you, and to give a fuck – you’ve already blown it.

Almost every baseline fact of importance was changed — distance, lighting, observation.

From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, either because...

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.

Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say to somebody “I love you”, when you are considering your children, when you...

I suppose it’s human tendency to treat the people who you’ve wronged badly though, isn’t it? Easier to dismiss them if you can pretend they’re subhuman.

…I think apparatus burned out all over the ward trying to adjust to her come busting in like she did-took electronic readings on her and calculated they weren’t built to handle something like this on...

One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

That’s probably a valid observation – that people who work in the sports department, whether it be at a newspaper or a radio or TV station, probably operate under some different expectations, if not guidelines,...

It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.What is essential is invisible to the eye.

Learn to see what you are looking at.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Observe the beauty of forest.

[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which Newton discovered with the aid of the calculus, is to...

That a free, or at least an unsaturated acid usually exists in the stomachs of animals, and is in some manner connected with the important process of digestion, seems to have been the general opinion...

Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything.

Love is a lens of an observer. Love is an attitude with action.

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

The waves of probabilities collapse into a physical reality through observation by a conscious mind.

Those who believe they know it all should not fret when they ultimately realize they do not, for when there is nothing left to learn what challenges remain.

Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It’s as simple and as complex as...

People are more inclined to ask what’s wrong than what’s right. They note errors and faults, seeing weaknesses before strengths. So expect criticism; it’s the nature of the beast.