Grounding Quotes

• It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Spiritual, Real, Body

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• The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Buddhist, War

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• In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are.

  Michael Ray

  Order, Knowing Who You Are, Excellence

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• One of the great exercises you can do is to stop and acknowledge the colors around you... If you're constantly distracting yourself, then you're never really experiencing anything fully. It can cause you to feel like you have no center, like nothing is grounding you.

  Sheryl Crow

  Exercise, Color, Rainbow

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• My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Heritage, Has Beens

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• My best source of grounding are animals and nature. Animals live more in the moment and don't worry so much! And nature is proof of a greater power than myself. Both put things in perspective, or at least gently move us forward.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Moving, Animal, Perspective

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• All the world’s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness, can and do promote inner values. But the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate. This is why I believe the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics that is beyond religion.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Reality, Thinking

  "Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World". Book by 14th Dalai Lama, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2011.

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• In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Order, Needs

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• The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, Stupid, Kids

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• The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

  Johannes V. Jensen

  Examination, Trends, Medical

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

  Georg Solti

  Life Lesson, Hard Work, Discipline

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

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• No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Travel, Attitude, Would Be

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• Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Ballet, Crafts, Given

  "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

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• My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

  Alan Cumming

  Dad, Thinking, Mum

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2009.

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• Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Real, Philosophical

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my life, because without having a spiritual grounding, I think you can get really swayed by the winds of all the praise or the criticism; it's all very, kind of, up and down. Try to stay up and focused.

  Kimbra

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Book

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• I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though it isn't mine. I work hard at grounding the world as much as possible in the world we do recognize.

  Laurie Foos

  Hard Work, Thinking, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

  Daniel Goldstein

  Productive Life, Good Relationship, People

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• Buddhist practice is the grounding for this work, this life, this way.

  Joan Halifax

  Buddhist, Practice, Way

  Source: zenpeacemakers.org

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• In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Silence, Mind

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• The praise helps on a deep level, which gives you the grounding that encourages you to trust yourself. On another level, each film is a risk, and the praise doesn't save you from that risk.

  Ira Sachs

  Giving, Risk, Levels

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.

  William A. Dembski

  Atheist, Reality, Views

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• I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.

  Frances O'Connor

  Thinking, Giving, Catholic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

  Shepard Smith

  School, Kids, Thinking

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• I was brought up by a really proud, supportive family, so I have that sort of grounding.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Supportive, Proud, Supportive Family

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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