At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
The river is now. This moment. This breath between us. The space between your heartbeats. The moment before you blink. The instant a thought flashes through your mind. It is everything that is around us. Life. Energy. Flowing, endlessly flowing, carrying you from then. . . to now. . . to tomorrow. Listen: you can hear the music of it. Of the passage of time.
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could not blink my eyes in unison. " — "If The Impressionists Had Been Dentists
I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.
Why women don't blink during foreplay. . . not enough time.
When I write about "realizations," I am describing a state in which a practitioner has wisdom of who she or he is, and has embodied that wisdom; it has become integrated into daily life, thoughts, and activities. We often view "awakening" as first step towards such realization. Awakening can occur in the blink of an eye, frequently through the direct, heart-opening (heart-breaking) transmission of grace from an awakened teacher.
My fore-parts, as you so ineloquently put it, have names. ” I pointed to my right breast. “This is Danger. ” Then my left. “And this is Will Robinson. I would appreciate it if you addressed them accordingly. ” After a long pause in which he took the time to blink several times, he asked, “You named your breasts?” I turned my back to him with a shrug. “I named my ovaries, too, but they don’t get out as much.
Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye
There are things that happen so quickly. A better cameraman can capture them, but if the light is not bright and you hoist up your camera by the time you've dialed in your settings. there are eye blink moments where you're like "Aaahhhh, I wish," but those are too many to catalogue. Nothing really sticks out.
Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.
Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink.
At the 2012 Olympic Trials, I wanted to make a second Olympic team. I fell face first, and in a blink of an eye, my dreams of competing in a second Olympics were over. Even so, I got up, finished my routine, and saw twenty thousand people cheering. It was my first standing ovation.
Free-market capitalism, in the blink of an eye, was gutted and replaced by an oligopoly.
All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.
We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake
It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer. ' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.
Back in the old days, everyone was shocked if a band had a sponsor for their tour. Now, Bob Dylan can do a commercial for Victoria's Secret and people don't really blink; the Beatles' songs are in all sorts of commercials these days and it doesn't seem to offend anybody. The times are changing.
There are moments when suddenly our eyes blink open and we recapture the excitement of living. Life becomes an adventure and we, adventurers.
