An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.
The insistent drums were an unwelcome reminder of the existence of another world, wholly autonomous, with its own necessities and patterns. The message they were beating out, over and over, was for he...
Oftentimes I think it is far better to listen for an answer, rather than talk out of an effort to create one.
You can only become the observer of life, if you can perceive the world with the mind and not with the sensory organs.
Pluto is dead, I know as I observed the Terminator that was sent to kill it
Be the compassionate observer. No labels, just unconditional compassion. Fun times pass, tough times pass. Compassion will be eternal.
Chaos is peaceful when you stand quietly & watch - we are eternal observers, reflecting both tiny & vast, singing infinitely within.
Observe your internal and external world and rise above it.
The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge.
If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?
I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.