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A few adage for experiencing full consciousness…
1. Who believes he reached his goal must have missed everything else. Zen
2. All begins in necessity. All must end in freedom. (Maurice Zundel)
3. The many little pains offend us far more than a single violent one.
4. Never forget: You are what you consider banal. Banal events and feeling are what constructed your essential ideas and viewpoints.
5. Abstaining of thinking is what we are incapable of mastering and controlling. This is our worst constraint.
6. Goodbye, and remember: Faith is more beautiful than God.
7. Are you a poet? You should notice the clouds hovering over your piece of paper: Clouds are the source of your writing paper. (Thich Nhat Hanh)
8. At every second, we either enter paradise or exit from it. (Christian Bobin)
9. Truth is earth without paths. (Tiziano Terzani)
10. Where’s my pain? It’s just a murmur at the edge of the sun. (Paul Fort)
11. The spirit doesn’t look back or forward. Only the present moment is source of our happiness (Goethe in Faust)
12 Who can catch the present moment sees all that occurred during eternity and all that will happen to the infinity of time. (Marcus Aurelius)
13. Breath. Breathing transforms the experience of what we take for reality.
14. Suffering? Breath. Distressed? Breath. (Happy? Breath)
Note: Extracted from the French “Meditate in full consciousness. Day after day in 25 lessons” by Christophe Andre