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• Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

  Stanislav Grof

  Understanding, Challenges, Finals

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• Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops according to its inner logic, passes its climax, seeks its cadence, ends, and restores silence, leisure again. Action and leisure are thus interdependent; echoing and recalling each other, so that action enlivens leisure with its memories and anticipations, and leisure expands and raises action beyond its mere immediate self and gives it a permanent meaning.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Memories, Self, Giving

  Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”

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• The club that kills can drive a stake into the ground to hold a shelter. The hands that build bombs can be used to build schools. The minds that coordinate the activities of violence can coordinate the activities of cooperation. When the activities of life are infused with reverence, they come alive with meaning and purpose.

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, School, Hands

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jan 14, 2015

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• Stress is not caused by your busy life or challenging circumstances, it's simply the result of an imbalance between silence and activity.

  Jerry Thomas

  Stress, Silence, Challenges

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• If your activities don't match your priorities, you are wasting your life.

  Rick Warren

  Priorities, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jan 09, 2013

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• Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being

  Plato

  Fitness, Workout, Exercise

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• At the height of creative activity fueled by enthusiasm, there will be enormous intensity and energy behind what you do. You will feel like an arrow that is moving toward the target-and enjoying the journey.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Moving, Journey, Arrows

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.181, Penguin

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• The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens... within I don't know how many years, but in not too long a time, it's going to become basic common sense that you are not some alien being who confronts an external world that is not you, but that almost every intelligent person will have the feeling of being an activity of the entire universe.

  Alan Watts

  Intelligent, Years, Taught Us

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• Carry your groceries, garden, and do other activities that keep you moving. You will add more years to your life and more life to your years.

  Dan Millman

  Moving, Garden, Years

  Dan Millman (2010). “Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life”, p.156, New World Library

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• The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Animal, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.39, Penguin

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• Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Littles, Matter

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• Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

  Albert Speer

  Improvement, Workplace, Factories

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• There is scientific evidence that demonstrates there is some impact from human activities. However I don't think the evidence is conclusive.

  Kelly Ayotte

  Thinking, Impact, Republican

  "Ayotte wants budget cuts" by Deborah McDermott, www.seacoastonline.com. September 30, 2010.

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• To cook is not just to prepare food for someone or to cook for yourself; it is to express your sincerity. So when you cook you should express yourself in your activity in the kitchen. You should allow yourself plenty of time.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Cooking, Kitchen, Sincerity

  Shunryū Suzuki, Trudy Dixon, Richard Baker (2006). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.50, Shambhala Publications

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• Creative activity is one of the few self rewarding activities. Being creative is like being in love!

  Woodie Flowers

  Love, Creativity, Self

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• Creativity is a quality that we give to every activity that we do.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Giving, Quality

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• Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.

  I. J. Good

  Clever, Men, Design

  "Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine". Advances in Computers, vol. 6, 1965.

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• To be in flow means to be totally absorbed in whatever one is doing at the moment. It occurs when one is fully present and completely focused on the task at hand...Flow can occur during any human activity, whether work or at play.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Hands, Play

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• Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.

  Herbert Spencer

  Teacher, Memories, Learning

  Herbert Spencer (1861). “Education: intellectual, moral, and physical”, p.100

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• Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience...was disparaged.

  Henry Giroux

  Cheating, Learning, School

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• There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Believe, Animal, Reason

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• The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.

  Abraham Maslow

  Fate, Creating, Agency

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and let it cost you your uttermost. In this way, and no other, is true peace to be found.

  Meister Eckhart

  Ego, Cost, Way

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• Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Lying, Creative, Selfless

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 241), 1986.

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• In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

  Plato

  Mean, Men, Order

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