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  • As you raise your perspective from the hum drum 'doingness' of your everyday tasks, to seeing yourself as creating something meaningful for the world and something greater than just yourself, you will be transformed.

    Tamsin Rothschild: Living A Poetic Life 2009

  • By inward discovery I mean a turning in toward oneself, a time for reflection and contemplation, for stillness in the busyness and doingness of life.

    Susan Smalley, Ph.D.: STRESS Month: A Patchwork Approach to 'Religious' Experience 2010

  • I am not talking about the go-into-Inner-Silence, new thought type stuff, I mean just sitting with yourself and stopping the racket, the doingness, the preOCCUPATION with others.

    OpEdNews - Diary: What do you do to make a difference EVERY DAY? 2008

  • They are so addicted to a hectic schedule of doingness, and/or being entertained that they just can't stand just being with themselves, forced to confront and deal with the sensations of their own body, forced to face their own thoughts, to confront their own emotions, many of which are negative.

    How and When to Be Your Own Doctor Isabel Moser

  • By inward discovery I mean a turning in toward oneself, a time for reflection and contemplation, for stillness in the busyness and doingness of life.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

  • Moreover, all of that doingness and believing will most certainly block you from ever living simply and naturally and spontaneously. "

    Advaita Vedanta 2010

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