It takes a universe to make a sandwich.https://loving-aware.com/enCopyright 2026 Holger HubbsFri, 06 Nov 2026 19:23:50 GMTAstro RSS60https://loving-aware.com/notes/abraham-joshua-heschel--speech-ends-in-a-deed/https://loving-aware.com/notes/abraham-joshua-heschel--speech-ends-in-a-deed/Speech has power and words don't fade: what begins as a sound ends as an action.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>Speech has power and words don't fade: what begins as a sound ends as an action.</p> <p>From the 'power of words' compilation email. Spelled 'Herschel' in the email.</p> speechactionpowerresponsibilitywordsHolger Hubbshttps://loving-aware.com/notes/betty-eadie--guard-your-thoughts-and-words/https://loving-aware.com/notes/betty-eadie--guard-your-thoughts-and-words/If we understood the power of our thoughts and words, we would guard them closely and prefer silence to anything negative; our strengths, limits and joys begin in our hearts, and we can always replace negative with positive.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>If we understood the power of our thoughts and words, we would guard them closely and prefer silence to anything negative; our strengths, limits and joys begin in our hearts, and we can always replace negative with positive.</p> <p>From the 'power of words' compilation email.</p> thoughtswordssilencepositivityheartHolger Hubbshttps://loving-aware.com/notes/edgar-allan-poe--words-and-the-horror-of-reality/https://loving-aware.com/notes/edgar-allan-poe--words-and-the-horror-of-reality/Words alone cannot impress the mind unless backed by the vivid, even terrible, force of the reality they describe.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>Words alone cannot impress the mind unless backed by the vivid, even terrible, force of the reality they describe.</p> <p>From the 'power of words' compilation email.</p> wordsrealityimpressionmindwritingHolger Hubbshttps://loving-aware.com/notes/hamza-yusuf--words-move-hearts/https://loving-aware.com/notes/hamza-yusuf--words-move-hearts/Never underestimate words: they move hearts, and hearts move limbs into action.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>Never underestimate words: they move hearts, and hearts move limbs into action.</p> <p>From the 'power of words' compilation email.</p> wordsheartactioninfluencepowerHolger Hubbshttps://loving-aware.com/notes/john-keating--words-and-ideas-can-change-the-world/https://loving-aware.com/notes/john-keating--words-and-ideas-can-change-the-world/Whatever anyone tells you, words and ideas can change the world.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>Whatever anyone tells you, words and ideas can change the world.</p> <p>From the 'power of words' compilation email. John Keating is the teacher character in the film Dead Poets Society (screenplay by Tom Schulman); verify how to credit it.</p> wordsideaschangeinspirationteachingHolger Hubbshttps://loving-aware.com/notes/joseph-conrad--to-make-you-see/https://loving-aware.com/notes/joseph-conrad--to-make-you-see/A writer's task: through the written word, to make the reader hear and feel, and above all to see.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>A writer's task: through the written word, to make the reader hear and feel, and above all to see.</p> <p>From the 'power of words' compilation email.</p> writingseeingfeelingcraftpurposeHolger Hubbshttps://loving-aware.com/notes/markus-zusak--the-best-word-shakers/https://loving-aware.com/notes/markus-zusak--the-best-word-shakers/Those who truly understood the power of words were the best 'word shakers' and could climb the highest.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>Those who truly understood the power of words were the best 'word shakers' and could climb the highest.</p> <p>From the 'power of words' compilation email. Likely from The Book Thief (identified by Claude, verify).</p> wordspowerunderstandingaspirationstorytellingHolger Hubbshttps://loving-aware.com/notes/yehuda-berg--words-can-help-heal-hurt-or-humble/https://loving-aware.com/notes/yehuda-berg--words-can-help-heal-hurt-or-humble/Words carry energy and power that can help, heal, hinder, hurt, harm, humiliate and humble.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>Words carry energy and power that can help, heal, hinder, hurt, harm, humiliate and humble.</p> <p>From the 'power of words' compilation email.</p> wordsenergyhealingharmpowerHolger Hubbshttps://loving-aware.com/notes/hawkins--the-eye-of-the-i-ch-7-the-mind-reference-only/https://loving-aware.com/notes/hawkins--the-eye-of-the-i-ch-7-the-mind-reference-only/The email contains only a book and chapter reference with no excerpt.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>The email contains only a book and chapter reference with no excerpt.</p> <p>Reference only (book and chapter), no excerpt.</p> david-hawkinsthe-eye-of-the-imindreferencebookHolger Hubbshttps://loving-aware.com/notes/g-k-chesterton--we-have-all-forgotten-who-we-are/https://loving-aware.com/notes/g-k-chesterton--we-have-all-forgotten-who-we-are/Everyone has forgotten who they are; we can understand the cosmos but not the ego. Common sense is forgetting that we forgot, while art and ecstasy are the moments we remember that we forget.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>Everyone has forgotten who they are; we can understand the cosmos but not the ego. Common sense is forgetting that we forgot, while art and ecstasy are the moments we remember that we forget.</p> forgettingself-knowledgeegoecstasyrememberingHolger Hubbshttps://loving-aware.com/notes/mary-oliver--the-soul-is-built-of-attentiveness/https://loving-aware.com/notes/mary-oliver--the-soul-is-built-of-attentiveness/Ten times a day a throb of amazement arrives; the speaker names it the first and wisest thing known: the soul exists and is made entirely of attentiveness.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>Ten times a day a throb of amazement arrives; the speaker names it the first and wisest thing known: the soul exists and is made entirely of attentiveness.</p> attentionsoulwonderpoetrypresenceHolger Hubbshttps://loving-aware.com/notes/saxe--the-blind-men-and-the-elephant/https://loving-aware.com/notes/saxe--the-blind-men-and-the-elephant/John Godfrey Saxe's poem of six men of Indostan who each touch one part of an elephant and argue over what it is: partial perception mistaken for the whole. Saxe lived 1816–1887, so the text is public domain.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>John Godfrey Saxe's poem of six men of Indostan who each touch one part of an elephant and argue over what it is: partial perception mistaken for the whole. Saxe lived 1816–1887, so the text is public domain.</p> <p>Saxe lived 1816–1887; the poem is public domain.</p> perspectiveblindnessparabledogmawholenessHolger Hubbshttps://loving-aware.com/notes/david-bohm--thought-as-a-system-book-introduction/https://loving-aware.com/notes/david-bohm--thought-as-a-system-book-introduction/Lee Nichol's 1993 introduction to Bohm's Thought as a System: thought is past memory carried forward, bound up with emotion and reflex; the 'thinker' is a product of thought; 'proprioception of thought', insight and group dialogue as ways to loosen its grip.Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>Lee Nichol's 1993 introduction to Bohm's Thought as a System: thought is past memory carried forward, bound up with emotion and reflex; the 'thinker' is a product of thought; 'proprioception of thought', insight and group dialogue as ways to loosen its grip.</p> <p>Introduction to David Bohm's Thought as a System (Ojai, 1993).</p> thoughtdavid-bohmproprioceptiondialoguefragmentationHolger Hubbs