#activity

I had a day when I was busy in the world, where the activity created a turmoil on the surface of my consciousness like waves on the surface of the ocean, which made it difficult to see through the waves to the inner silence. It reminded me that we need to develop both the capacity to use the mind when engaged in activity and social relations, and to be able to let go of the activity and to come in contact with the deep inner silence. The relationship between being active in the world and in social relations and the inner silence is like the relationship between the waves on the surface of the ocean and the deep inner silence on the bottom of the ocean. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#awareness #creativity #relationships #silence #work

Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity. ↗

— Tom Allen

#frenzied #maine #rest #time #winter

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity. ↗

— John Lone

#dominate #gender #i #necessarily #pompous

I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#friends #fun #have fun #i #social

Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#account #activity #behaviour #different #different kinds

Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles! ↗

— Nevil Shute

#disease #humor #illness #measles #radioactivity

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#activity #agriculture #answer #ask #change

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#activity #almost #any #automatically #believes

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming. ↗

— Bobby Ray Inman

#advance #attack #best #center #coming

It would be helpful if someone would lay out exactly the economic mechanism that gets us from yet lower interest rates to actual economic activity. ↗

— Jerrry A. Webman

#actual #economic #economic activity #exactly #gets