Sense Quotes

It is always wise, particularly in the beginning, to balance your new intuitive and psychic understandings with good old common sense. A good psychic perception follows your common sense.

Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.

In self-giving you must be so careful of egotism. You must be so careful when you are aiding others in their liberation not to have a sense of self.

In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.

We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.

Tantra is only recommended for someone who has a very developed will power, a terrific sense of humor, and a sense that nothing else matters but God and self-realization.

You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.

Think about these things and see if they make sense to you. You will find that work will no longer be a four-letter word. It will be a three-letter word: fun.

The tonal is the sense of place. It is order and reason in a world of chaos.

Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.

Keep your sense of humor. Stay funny.

To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.

Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise.

Keep a sense of humor, that keeps you balanced, and you'll do quite well with it all, I'm sure.

We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the solidification of one's sense of self.

Psychic development makes you strong. It develops a common sense attitude in which you don't expose yourself to forces, people and situations that would drain you.

As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.

When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.

The samsara is the sense of self. I've had past experiences. I'm aware of the moment. I will have future experiences.

On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

I know that the emotional narrative will work in the end, and I just have to play each moment honestly even if the getting from A to B doesn't totally make sense initially.

I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.

The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way.

I certainly have had experiences of a sense of wonder at the world and a feeling that even though it could all be explained rationally, it still feels that there is more to it.

In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.

It doesn't entirely make sense that if 51 senators are from one party, and they can stick together, they can do whatever they want. Especially in this age of blatant, shameless gerrymandering.

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

I did a movie with Woody Allen [“Hollywood Ending” in 2002]. I only had a few days with Treat on that film. I immediately liked Treat. Treat and I had a sense of humor about the whole thing.

I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself.

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people.

One thing you had to learn [after the presidency] was that you no longer had the sense of responsibility that became ingrained in your system.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

Everything has to be done for a reason, and everything has to be done to make sense in terms of running a proper business today, and it's not just about the food.

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.

I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it.

Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.

I have friends my age who started smoking pot when they got out of college. They didn't get anywhere. But if they drank, they managed to go somewhere. Does that make sense?

That's the job of the National Security Council is to try to be a disciplined clearinghouse, gathering the views from across multiple agencies, teeing up decisions that make sense for the president.

Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds of behavior.

There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.

I hate sports the way people who like sports hate common sense.

It is just fun to play with [in "Mary and Jane"]. I think our sense of humor tends to go that way.

It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer.

I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

My wife has a keen sense of humor. The more I humor her, the better.