“The greatness of humanity is not in being human but in being humane.” Notice who you are being when you are humane and when you are not. (from Mahatma Gandhi) ~Will Keiper The Noticing Guide www.willkeiper.com
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Noticing is a choice to be more aware than unaware. It requires being actively present, still, and withholding situational assessments such as judgments, labels, and characterizations. It is powerful and effortless. (I fully explain in my forthcoming book, Noticing.) ~Will Keiper The Noticing Guide www.willkeiper.com
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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Notice it. …from Viktor Frankl ~Will Keiper The Noticing Guide www.willkeiper.com
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Noise wearies and sickens but reassures us. We can fall into a dull, insistent uneasiness. The agitation becomes a tranquilizer, a sedative, forming a sort of incoherent dream world. Noise gives us security, like a drug on which we are dependent. But it is a dangerous, deceptive, diabolic lie. Noise distracts us from noticing. (Adapted
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“Noticing” is natural and simple, yet is the gateway to awareness. Rupert Spira is a leading spiritual guide in the nondual world. I greatly admire his ability to take concepts, including consciousness, and make them simply relatable. He wrote, “Awareness is not a new experience but rather something we have simply overlooked due to our
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“We are taught to superimpose the past on the present and the future, and so we lose the excitement, the newness, of the moment. It takes noticing to see this mechanical functioning. A mind filled with thoughts concerning the already known is not receptive to the current of life that flows from the all-possible. Living
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If enhancing your natural noticing gifts is transformational, my experience suggests that it’s not the result of a successful chase to discover something different or better, nor more satisfying or sufficient. Instead, it’s knowing that the current, fleeting, sometimes painful circumstances can always be immediately transcended in favor of abiding awareness. (Excerpted from my forthcoming
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To paraphrase Cardinal Robert Sarah in The Power of Silence, Stillness is not an absence. On the contrary, it is… the most intense of all presences… Our blood flows through our veins without making any noise, and we can hear our heartbeats only in stillness… In silence, your heart can listen. I would add, “…and
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Noticing is imperceptibly elevating your senses to observe more fulsomely whatever is now passing through your life’s flow. Noticing is subtly but deliberately choosing to be more aware than unaware in the moment. Noticing doesn’t require gathering yourself to focus or doing anything that requires extra effort or energy. ~Will Keiper The Noticing Guide www.willkeiper.com
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Let It Go >> Let go of the ways you thought life would unfold; the holding of plans or dreams or expectations – Let it all go. Save your strength to swim with the tide. The choice to fight what is here before you now will only result in struggle, fear, and desperate attempts to
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