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Art of Awareness

Thoreau wrote: "Only that day dawns to which we are awake." The art of awareness is the art of learning how to wake up to the eternal miracle of life with its limitless possibilities. It is rising to the challenge of stirring old hymn: "Awake my soul, stretch every nerve." It is developing the deep sensitivity through which you may suffer and know tragedy, and die a little, but through which you will also experience the grandeur of human life. It is following the philosophy of Albert Schweitzer who teaches "reverence for live," from ants to men; it is developing a sense of oneness with all life. It is identifying yourself with the hopes, dreams, fears, and longings of others, that you may understand them and help them. It is learning to interpret the thoughts, feelings, and moods of others through their words, tones, inflections, facial expressions, and movements. It is striving to stretch the range of eye and ear; it is taking time to look and listen to c...
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My thoughts

What stops one from lifting oneself from the materialistic world is not having / using them but thinking about them.
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Ocean Robbins

He dropped out of 5th grade. But before that, he had already organized a peace rally, ran a marathon, and started his own bakery selling natural baked foods, door-to-door. Ocean Robbins, son of legendary John Robbins, was barely a teenager when he met Mrs. Gorbachev, numerous ambassadors and US senators, wrote for national magazines (and wrote a book), and became a voice for environmental concerns. At 16, in the mid 80s, Ocean took off in his car to reach out to the youth. Instead of 'just say no', he was urging youth to just say 'yes' -- yes to living with meaning, purpose, integrity and commitment. ' YES! ‘quickly became an organization. One school assembly after another, he would get people fired up about service and engaged in local community work. To date, his efforts have touched more than 625,000 students across the country, brought together leaders of tomorrow through their international youth jams , and inspired formation of more than 400 nonprofits! Sti...
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