Saturday, March 3, 2018
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Quotes X
-All those things you can have now if you do not notice of all the past, and trust the future to Providence and direct the present in the way of piety and justice.
-With respect to that which happens conformably to nature, we ought to blame neither gods, for they do nothing wrong either voluntarily or involuntarily, nor men, for they do nothing wrong except involuntarily. Consequently we should blame nobody.
-If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it. For let your impulse be in your own power.
-The ending of life then is not only no evil to the individual, for it brings him no disgrace, if in fact it is both outside our choice and not inimical to the general weal, but a good, since it is timely for the universe, bears its share in it, and is borne along with it. For then is he who is borne along on the same path as God, and borne in his judgment toward the same things, indeed a man god-borne.
-To those who ask, 'Where have you seen the gods or how do you comprehend that they exist and so worship them' I answer, in the first place, they may be seen with the eyes'. In the second place neither have I seen even my own soul and yet I honor it. Thus, then with respect to the gods, from what I constantly experience of their power, from this I comprehend that they exist and I venerate them.
-What difference does it make to you whether for five years or a hundred? For under its laws equal treatment is meted out to all.
-With respect to that which happens conformably to nature, we ought to blame neither gods, for they do nothing wrong either voluntarily or involuntarily, nor men, for they do nothing wrong except involuntarily. Consequently we should blame nobody.
-If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it. For let your impulse be in your own power.
-The ending of life then is not only no evil to the individual, for it brings him no disgrace, if in fact it is both outside our choice and not inimical to the general weal, but a good, since it is timely for the universe, bears its share in it, and is borne along with it. For then is he who is borne along on the same path as God, and borne in his judgment toward the same things, indeed a man god-borne.
-To those who ask, 'Where have you seen the gods or how do you comprehend that they exist and so worship them' I answer, in the first place, they may be seen with the eyes'. In the second place neither have I seen even my own soul and yet I honor it. Thus, then with respect to the gods, from what I constantly experience of their power, from this I comprehend that they exist and I venerate them.
-What difference does it make to you whether for five years or a hundred? For under its laws equal treatment is meted out to all.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Quotes IX
-The soul obtains its own end, wherever the limit of life may by fixed.
-In all things, except virtue and the acts of virtue, remember to apply yourself to their several parts, and by this division to come to value them little: and apply this rule also to your whole life.
-What a great soul is that which is ready, at any requisite moment, to be separated from the body and then to be extinguished or dispersed or continue to exist.
-Have I done something for the general interest? Well, then I have had my reward.
-What is your art? To be good. And how is this accomplished well except by general principles.
-Regarding those who try to stand in your way when you are proceeding according to right reason, be on your guard, not only in the matter of steady judgment and action, but also in the matter of gentleness. For this also is weakness, to be vexed at them, as well as to be diverted from your course of action and to give away through fear.
-Shall any man hate me? That will be his affair. But I will be mild and benevolent toward every man.
-A man ought to be seen by the gods neither dissatisfied with anything nor complaining.
-A man's character is in his eyes.
-The man who is honest and good ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander, as soon as he comes near him, must smell the odor whether he chooses to or not.
-Nothing is more disgraceful than a false friendship.
-If these things are according to nature, rejoice in them, and they will be easy to you: but if contrary to nature, seek what is conformable to you own nature, and strive toward this, even if it brings no reputation; for every man is allowed to seek his own good.
-If men do rightly what they do, we ought not to be displeased; but if they do not right, it is plain that they do so involuntarily and in ignorance.
-A good disposition is invincible.
-Correcting errors must be done not in irony or by way of rebuke, but with kindly affection and without any bitterness at heart, not as from a master's chair, nor yet to impress the bystanders, but as if he were indeed alone even though others are present.
-To expect bad men not to do wrong is madness.
-There is no veil over a star.
-No man can rob us our feel will.
-In all things, except virtue and the acts of virtue, remember to apply yourself to their several parts, and by this division to come to value them little: and apply this rule also to your whole life.
-What a great soul is that which is ready, at any requisite moment, to be separated from the body and then to be extinguished or dispersed or continue to exist.
-Have I done something for the general interest? Well, then I have had my reward.
-What is your art? To be good. And how is this accomplished well except by general principles.
-Regarding those who try to stand in your way when you are proceeding according to right reason, be on your guard, not only in the matter of steady judgment and action, but also in the matter of gentleness. For this also is weakness, to be vexed at them, as well as to be diverted from your course of action and to give away through fear.
-Shall any man hate me? That will be his affair. But I will be mild and benevolent toward every man.
-A man ought to be seen by the gods neither dissatisfied with anything nor complaining.
-A man's character is in his eyes.
-The man who is honest and good ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander, as soon as he comes near him, must smell the odor whether he chooses to or not.
-Nothing is more disgraceful than a false friendship.
-If these things are according to nature, rejoice in them, and they will be easy to you: but if contrary to nature, seek what is conformable to you own nature, and strive toward this, even if it brings no reputation; for every man is allowed to seek his own good.
-If men do rightly what they do, we ought not to be displeased; but if they do not right, it is plain that they do so involuntarily and in ignorance.
-A good disposition is invincible.
-Correcting errors must be done not in irony or by way of rebuke, but with kindly affection and without any bitterness at heart, not as from a master's chair, nor yet to impress the bystanders, but as if he were indeed alone even though others are present.
-To expect bad men not to do wrong is madness.
-There is no veil over a star.
-No man can rob us our feel will.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Quotes VIII
-Whatever may happen to you, it was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being and that which is incident to it.
-Nothing is injurious to the part if it is for the advantage of the whole.
-What need is there of suspicious fear, since it is in your power to inquire what ought to be done? And if you see clearly, go by this way content, without turning back; but if you do not see clearly, stop and take the best advisers.
-If any other things oppose you, go on according to your powers with due consideration, keeping to that which appears to be just. For it is best to reach this object, and if you fail, let your failure be in attempting this. He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.
-You have but a short time left to live. Live as on a mountain.
-No longer talk, but be.
-Let this always be plain to you, that this piece of land is like any other; and that all things here are the same as things on the top of a mountain, or on the seashore, or wherever you choose to be. For you will find just what Plato says: 'Dwelling within the walls of a city as in a shepherd'd fold on a mountain', and milking flocks.
-When you are offended at any man's fault, immediately turn to yourself and reflect in what manner you yourself have erred.
-To him who is penetrated by true principles, any common precept, even the briefest, is sufficient to remind him that he should be free from grief and fear.
-A brief existence is common to all things and yet, you avoid and pursue all things as if they would be eternal.
-The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say: 'I wish for green things'; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.
-In contemplating yourself, never include the vessel that surrounds you and these organs that are attached to it.
-Nothing is injurious to the part if it is for the advantage of the whole.
-What need is there of suspicious fear, since it is in your power to inquire what ought to be done? And if you see clearly, go by this way content, without turning back; but if you do not see clearly, stop and take the best advisers.
-If any other things oppose you, go on according to your powers with due consideration, keeping to that which appears to be just. For it is best to reach this object, and if you fail, let your failure be in attempting this. He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.
-You have but a short time left to live. Live as on a mountain.
-No longer talk, but be.
-Let this always be plain to you, that this piece of land is like any other; and that all things here are the same as things on the top of a mountain, or on the seashore, or wherever you choose to be. For you will find just what Plato says: 'Dwelling within the walls of a city as in a shepherd'd fold on a mountain', and milking flocks.
-When you are offended at any man's fault, immediately turn to yourself and reflect in what manner you yourself have erred.
-To him who is penetrated by true principles, any common precept, even the briefest, is sufficient to remind him that he should be free from grief and fear.
-A brief existence is common to all things and yet, you avoid and pursue all things as if they would be eternal.
-The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say: 'I wish for green things'; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.
-In contemplating yourself, never include the vessel that surrounds you and these organs that are attached to it.
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Quotes VII
-The common nature brings nothing that you cannot bear.
-If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now. But if anything in your own disposition gives you pain, who hinders you from correcting your opinion? And even if you are pained because your are not doing some particular thing that seems to you to be right, why do you not rather act than complain?
-The ruling faculty is invincible.
-The mind that is free from passions is a citadel.
-How then shall you possess a perpetual fountain and not a mere well? By forming yourself hourly to freedom conjoined with contentment, simplicity, and modesty.
-He who does not know for what purpose the world exists, does not know who he is, or what the world is.
-Frequently the bad are in the enjoyment of pleasure and possess the things that procure pleasure, but the good have pain for their share and the things that cause pain.
-It would be a man's happiest lot to depart from mankind without having had any taste of lying and hypocrisy and luxury and pride.
-Do not despise death, but be well content with it, since this, too, is one of those things that nature wills. For such as it is to be young and to grow old, and to increase and to reach maturity, and to have teeth and beard and grey hairs, and to beget, and to be pregnant and to bring forth, such also is dissolution.
-It is no way right to be offended with men, but it is your duty to care for them and to bear with them gently; and yet to remember that your departure will be not from men who have the same principles as yourself.
-He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.
-If you are able, correct by teaching those who do wrong.
-All things are the same, familiar in experience, and ephemeral in time, and worthless in matter. Everything now is just as it was in the time of those whom we have buried.
-All things are changing: and you yourself are in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction, and the whole universe, too.
-Death, is this anything to fear?
-You have endured infinite troubles through not being contended with your ruling faculty's doing the things that it is constituted by nature to do. But enough of this.
-When another blames you or hates you, or when men say anything injurious about you, approach their poor souls, penetrate within, and see what kind of men they are. You will discover that there is no reason to be concerned that these men have this or that opinion about you. You must, however, be well disposed toward them, for by nature they are friends. And the gods, too, aid them in all ways, by dreams, by signs, toward the attainment of those things on which they set a value.
-Set yourself in motion, if it is in your power, and do not look about you to see if anyone will observe it.
-You can rid yourself of many useless things among those that disturb you, for they lie entirely in your imagination.
-Loss is nothing else than change.
-Why are you disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles you? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Toward the gods, then, now become at last simpler and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.
-An antidote against the stupid man: mildness.
-Where is the harm or the strangeness in the boor acting like a boor?
-What more do you want when you have done a man a service? Are you not content that you have done something comformable to your nature? Do you seek to be paid for it?
-If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now. But if anything in your own disposition gives you pain, who hinders you from correcting your opinion? And even if you are pained because your are not doing some particular thing that seems to you to be right, why do you not rather act than complain?
-The ruling faculty is invincible.
-The mind that is free from passions is a citadel.
-How then shall you possess a perpetual fountain and not a mere well? By forming yourself hourly to freedom conjoined with contentment, simplicity, and modesty.
-He who does not know for what purpose the world exists, does not know who he is, or what the world is.
-Frequently the bad are in the enjoyment of pleasure and possess the things that procure pleasure, but the good have pain for their share and the things that cause pain.
-It would be a man's happiest lot to depart from mankind without having had any taste of lying and hypocrisy and luxury and pride.
-Do not despise death, but be well content with it, since this, too, is one of those things that nature wills. For such as it is to be young and to grow old, and to increase and to reach maturity, and to have teeth and beard and grey hairs, and to beget, and to be pregnant and to bring forth, such also is dissolution.
-It is no way right to be offended with men, but it is your duty to care for them and to bear with them gently; and yet to remember that your departure will be not from men who have the same principles as yourself.
-He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.
-If you are able, correct by teaching those who do wrong.
-All things are the same, familiar in experience, and ephemeral in time, and worthless in matter. Everything now is just as it was in the time of those whom we have buried.
-All things are changing: and you yourself are in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction, and the whole universe, too.
-Death, is this anything to fear?
-You have endured infinite troubles through not being contended with your ruling faculty's doing the things that it is constituted by nature to do. But enough of this.
-When another blames you or hates you, or when men say anything injurious about you, approach their poor souls, penetrate within, and see what kind of men they are. You will discover that there is no reason to be concerned that these men have this or that opinion about you. You must, however, be well disposed toward them, for by nature they are friends. And the gods, too, aid them in all ways, by dreams, by signs, toward the attainment of those things on which they set a value.
-Set yourself in motion, if it is in your power, and do not look about you to see if anyone will observe it.
-You can rid yourself of many useless things among those that disturb you, for they lie entirely in your imagination.
-Loss is nothing else than change.
-Why are you disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles you? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Toward the gods, then, now become at last simpler and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.
-An antidote against the stupid man: mildness.
-Where is the harm or the strangeness in the boor acting like a boor?
-What more do you want when you have done a man a service? Are you not content that you have done something comformable to your nature? Do you seek to be paid for it?
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Quotes VI
-It is in your power to live free from all compulsion in the greatest tranquility of mind, even if all the world cry out against you as much as they choose.
-The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as if it were the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.
-When you have done a good act and another has received it, why do you look for a third thing besides these, as fools do, either to have the reputation of having done a good act or to obtain a return?
-Throw away the thought of how you might seem to others, and be content if you live the rest of your life in the manner that your nature wills.
-Where is happiness? In the principles that relate to good and bad: the belief that there is nothing good for man that does not make him just, temperate, manly, free; and that there is nothing bad that does not do the contrary to what has been mentioned.
-On the occasion of every act ask yourself: will I regret it?
-It is your duty to be a good man.
-Whatever man you meet with, immediately say to yourself: what opinions has this man about good and bad?
-It is a shame to be surprise if the fig tree produces figs.
-You must blame nobody. For if you can, correct that which is the cause; but if you cannot do this, correct at least the thing itself; but if you cannot do even this, of what use is it to you to find fault?
-For what purpose then do you exist? To enjoy pleasure?
-It is in my power to let no badness in this soul.
-Nothing will stand in the way of your acting justly and soberly and considerately.
-Different things delight different people.
-The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as if it were the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.
-When you have done a good act and another has received it, why do you look for a third thing besides these, as fools do, either to have the reputation of having done a good act or to obtain a return?
-Throw away the thought of how you might seem to others, and be content if you live the rest of your life in the manner that your nature wills.
-Where is happiness? In the principles that relate to good and bad: the belief that there is nothing good for man that does not make him just, temperate, manly, free; and that there is nothing bad that does not do the contrary to what has been mentioned.
-On the occasion of every act ask yourself: will I regret it?
-It is your duty to be a good man.
-Whatever man you meet with, immediately say to yourself: what opinions has this man about good and bad?
-It is a shame to be surprise if the fig tree produces figs.
-You must blame nobody. For if you can, correct that which is the cause; but if you cannot do this, correct at least the thing itself; but if you cannot do even this, of what use is it to you to find fault?
-For what purpose then do you exist? To enjoy pleasure?
-It is in my power to let no badness in this soul.
-Nothing will stand in the way of your acting justly and soberly and considerately.
-Different things delight different people.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Quotes V
-How can our principles become dead unless the impressions (thoughts) that correspond to them are extinguished?
-To recover your life is in your power. Look at things again as you used to look at them: for in this consists the recovery of your life.
-Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.
-In discourse you must attend to what is said, and in every action you must observe what is being done. And in the latter you should see immediately what end is intended, but in the former watch carefully what thing is signified.
-Do not be ashamed to be helped.
-All things are mutually intertwined, and the bond is holy.
-Everything material soon disappears in the substance of the whole; and everything formal is very soon taken back into the universal reason; and the memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
-Be upright, or be made upright.
-What can take place without change?
-The wrongdoer has done you no harm, for he has not made your ruling faculty worse than it was before.
-When a man has done you wrong, immediately consider with what opinion about good or evil he has done wrong. For when you have seen this, you will pity him, and will neither wonder nor be angry.
-Think no too much of what you lack as of what you have.
-Retire into yourself. Confine yourself to the present.
-Think of your last hour. Let the wrong that is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.
-Adorn yourself with simplicity and modesty and with indifference toward the things that lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God.
-No man can escape his destiny. The next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.
-Only attend to yourself, and resolve to be a good man in every act that you do.
-The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets that are sudden and unexpected.
-Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and everything of the kind. It is most necessary to bear this constantly in mind, for thus you will be more gentle toward all.
-Very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.
-To recover your life is in your power. Look at things again as you used to look at them: for in this consists the recovery of your life.
-Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.
-In discourse you must attend to what is said, and in every action you must observe what is being done. And in the latter you should see immediately what end is intended, but in the former watch carefully what thing is signified.
-Do not be ashamed to be helped.
-All things are mutually intertwined, and the bond is holy.
-Everything material soon disappears in the substance of the whole; and everything formal is very soon taken back into the universal reason; and the memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
-Be upright, or be made upright.
-What can take place without change?
-The wrongdoer has done you no harm, for he has not made your ruling faculty worse than it was before.
-When a man has done you wrong, immediately consider with what opinion about good or evil he has done wrong. For when you have seen this, you will pity him, and will neither wonder nor be angry.
-Think no too much of what you lack as of what you have.
-Retire into yourself. Confine yourself to the present.
-Think of your last hour. Let the wrong that is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.
-Adorn yourself with simplicity and modesty and with indifference toward the things that lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God.
-No man can escape his destiny. The next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.
-Only attend to yourself, and resolve to be a good man in every act that you do.
-The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets that are sudden and unexpected.
-Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and everything of the kind. It is most necessary to bear this constantly in mind, for thus you will be more gentle toward all.
-Very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.
Friday, February 23, 2018
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Quotes IV
-It is one of the acts of life, this act by which we die: it is sufficient then in this act also to do well what we have in hand.
-All existing things soon change, and they will either be reduced to vapor, if indeed all substance is one, or they will be dispersed.
-The reason that governs knows what its own disposition is, and what it does, and on what material it works.
-Every single thing is accomplished in conformity to the nature of the universe.
-You will have more mastery over the harmony by continually recurring to it.
-Outward show is a wonderful perverter of reason, and when you are most sure that you are employed about things worth your pains, it is then that it cheats you most.
-What then is worth being valued?
-If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.
-It is your duty to observe and to go on your way and finish that which is set before you without being disturbed or showing anger toward those who are angry with you.
-Teach them then, and show them without being angry.
-Death is a cessation of the impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the strings that move the appetites, and of the discursive movements of the thoughts, and of the service to the flesh.
-It is a shame of the soul to be first to give way in this life, when your body does not give way.
-Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, free from affectation, a friend of justice, a worshiper of the gods, kind, affectionate, strenuous in all proper acts.
-All things come from that universal ruling power either directly or mediately.
-All things are of one kin and of one form.
-Adapt yourself to the things with which your lot has been cast: and the men among whom you have received your portion, love them, but do it truly, sincerely.
-Remains then for you to understand among what kind of workmen you place yourself; for he who rules all things will certainly make right use of you, and he will receive you among some part of the cooperators and of those whose labors conduce to one end.
-Is not each star different yet working with the others toward the same end?
-If the gods have deliberated about me and about the things must happen to me, they have determined well, for it is not easy to imagine a deity deprived of forethought; and as to doing me harm, why should they have any desire toward that?
-One thing here is worth a great deal: to pass your life in truth and justice, with a benevolent disposition even to liars and unjust men.
-Nothing delights so much as the examples of the virtues when they are exhibited in the morals of those who live with us and present themselves in abundance, as far as is possible. Hence, we must keep them before us.
-Do not be dissatisfied then that you must live only so many years and not more; for as you are satisfied with the amount of substance that has been assigned to you, so be content with the time.
-It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing and not to be disturbed in our soul.
-How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it!
-No man will hinder you from living according to the reason of your own nature: nothing will happen to you contrary to the reason of universal nature.
-What kind of people are those whom men wish to please, and for what objects, and by what kind of acts? How soon will time cover all things, and how many it has covered already.
-All existing things soon change, and they will either be reduced to vapor, if indeed all substance is one, or they will be dispersed.
-The reason that governs knows what its own disposition is, and what it does, and on what material it works.
-Every single thing is accomplished in conformity to the nature of the universe.
-You will have more mastery over the harmony by continually recurring to it.
-Outward show is a wonderful perverter of reason, and when you are most sure that you are employed about things worth your pains, it is then that it cheats you most.
-What then is worth being valued?
-If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.
-It is your duty to observe and to go on your way and finish that which is set before you without being disturbed or showing anger toward those who are angry with you.
-Teach them then, and show them without being angry.
-Death is a cessation of the impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the strings that move the appetites, and of the discursive movements of the thoughts, and of the service to the flesh.
-It is a shame of the soul to be first to give way in this life, when your body does not give way.
-Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, free from affectation, a friend of justice, a worshiper of the gods, kind, affectionate, strenuous in all proper acts.
-All things come from that universal ruling power either directly or mediately.
-All things are of one kin and of one form.
-Adapt yourself to the things with which your lot has been cast: and the men among whom you have received your portion, love them, but do it truly, sincerely.
-Remains then for you to understand among what kind of workmen you place yourself; for he who rules all things will certainly make right use of you, and he will receive you among some part of the cooperators and of those whose labors conduce to one end.
-Is not each star different yet working with the others toward the same end?
-If the gods have deliberated about me and about the things must happen to me, they have determined well, for it is not easy to imagine a deity deprived of forethought; and as to doing me harm, why should they have any desire toward that?
-One thing here is worth a great deal: to pass your life in truth and justice, with a benevolent disposition even to liars and unjust men.
-Nothing delights so much as the examples of the virtues when they are exhibited in the morals of those who live with us and present themselves in abundance, as far as is possible. Hence, we must keep them before us.
-Do not be dissatisfied then that you must live only so many years and not more; for as you are satisfied with the amount of substance that has been assigned to you, so be content with the time.
-It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing and not to be disturbed in our soul.
-How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it!
-No man will hinder you from living according to the reason of your own nature: nothing will happen to you contrary to the reason of universal nature.
-What kind of people are those whom men wish to please, and for what objects, and by what kind of acts? How soon will time cover all things, and how many it has covered already.
Friday, February 16, 2018
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Quotes III
-In the morning when you rise unwillingly, let this thought be present: I am rising to the work of a human being.
-Show those qualities then that are altogether in your power: sincerity, gravity, endurance of labor, aversion to pleasure, contentment with you portion and with a simple life, benevolence, frankness, no love of superfluity, freedom from trifling magnanimity.
-A man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act.
-Every part of me will be reduced by change into some part of the universe, and that again will change into another part of the universe, and so on forever.
-The soul is dyed by the thoughts.
-Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
-Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree.
-Revere that which is best in the universe; revere that which is best in yourself.
-Think of the rapidity with which things pass by and disappear.
-Think of the universal substance, of which you have a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to you; and of that which is fixed by destiny and how small a part of it you are.
-Are you angry? What good will this anger do you?
-Show him his error, admonish him. For if he listens, you will cure him, and there is no need of anger.
-As you intend to live when you are gone, so it is in your power to live here. But if men do not permit you, then get away out of life, as if you were suffering no harm.
-And call to recollection both how many things you have passed through, and how many things you have been able to endure; and that the history of your life is now complete and your service is ended: and how many beautiful things you have seen: and how many pleasures and pains you have despised; and how many things called honorable you have spurned: and to how many ill-minded folks you have shown a kind disposition.
-Soon, very soon, you will be ashes or a skeleton, and either a name or not even a name; but name is sound and echo. And the things that are much valued in life are empty and rotten and trifling, and life little dogs biting one another, and little children quarrelling , laughing, and then straightaway weeping.
-You can pass your life in an equable flow of happiness if you can follow the right way and think and act in the right way. Tow things are common both to the soul of God and to the soul of man, and to the soul of every rational being: not to be hindered by another; and to seek the good in the disposition to justice and the practice of it, and in this to let your desire find its termination.
-Show those qualities then that are altogether in your power: sincerity, gravity, endurance of labor, aversion to pleasure, contentment with you portion and with a simple life, benevolence, frankness, no love of superfluity, freedom from trifling magnanimity.
-A man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act.
-Every part of me will be reduced by change into some part of the universe, and that again will change into another part of the universe, and so on forever.
-The soul is dyed by the thoughts.
-Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
-Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree.
-Revere that which is best in the universe; revere that which is best in yourself.
-Think of the rapidity with which things pass by and disappear.
-Think of the universal substance, of which you have a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to you; and of that which is fixed by destiny and how small a part of it you are.
-Are you angry? What good will this anger do you?
-Show him his error, admonish him. For if he listens, you will cure him, and there is no need of anger.
-As you intend to live when you are gone, so it is in your power to live here. But if men do not permit you, then get away out of life, as if you were suffering no harm.
-And call to recollection both how many things you have passed through, and how many things you have been able to endure; and that the history of your life is now complete and your service is ended: and how many beautiful things you have seen: and how many pleasures and pains you have despised; and how many things called honorable you have spurned: and to how many ill-minded folks you have shown a kind disposition.
-Soon, very soon, you will be ashes or a skeleton, and either a name or not even a name; but name is sound and echo. And the things that are much valued in life are empty and rotten and trifling, and life little dogs biting one another, and little children quarrelling , laughing, and then straightaway weeping.
-You can pass your life in an equable flow of happiness if you can follow the right way and think and act in the right way. Tow things are common both to the soul of God and to the soul of man, and to the soul of every rational being: not to be hindered by another; and to seek the good in the disposition to justice and the practice of it, and in this to let your desire find its termination.
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Quotes II
-We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.
-Do not waste the remainder of your life in thoughts about others.
-Accepting with all his soul everything that happens.
-A man should value the opinion only of those who openly live according to nature.
-Be not either a man of many words or busy about too many things.
-A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
-Enjoy that which you have found to be the best.
-If you diverge from this deity and succumb to appetites, you will no longer be able to concentrate on that good thing that is most deeply you own.
-Choose the better, and hold to it.
-Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains.
-If you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with you present activities according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you utter, you will live happily.
-Let no act be done without a purpose.
-There is no retreat that is quieter or freer from trouble that a man's own soul.
-Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
-Things do not touch the soul, for they are external and remain immovable; so our perturbations come only from our inner opinions.
-Nothing comes out of nothing.
-Bear this in mind, that within a very short time both you and he will be dead; and soon not even your names will be left behind.
-Look at things as they are in truth.
-Do not act as if your were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
-A thing is neither better nor worse for having been praised.
-Nothing is too early or too late if it is in due time for you.
-A man should take away not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts so that superfluous acts will not follow after.
-Make yourself all simplicity.
Your life is short. You must turn to profit the present by the aid of reason and justice. Be sober in your relaxation.
-Acting justly is the only true wisdom.
-Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul.
-You are a little soul bearing up a corpse.
-Time is like a river made up of the events that happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away, too.
-The death of earth is to become water; and the death of water is to become air; and the death of air si to become fire, and reversely.
-Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are.
-Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
-I am unhappy, because this has happened to me. Not so: say, I am happy, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.
-Say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason.
-Do not waste the remainder of your life in thoughts about others.
-Accepting with all his soul everything that happens.
-A man should value the opinion only of those who openly live according to nature.
-Be not either a man of many words or busy about too many things.
-A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
-Enjoy that which you have found to be the best.
-If you diverge from this deity and succumb to appetites, you will no longer be able to concentrate on that good thing that is most deeply you own.
-Choose the better, and hold to it.
-Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains.
-If you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with you present activities according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you utter, you will live happily.
-Let no act be done without a purpose.
-There is no retreat that is quieter or freer from trouble that a man's own soul.
-Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
-Things do not touch the soul, for they are external and remain immovable; so our perturbations come only from our inner opinions.
-Nothing comes out of nothing.
-Bear this in mind, that within a very short time both you and he will be dead; and soon not even your names will be left behind.
-Look at things as they are in truth.
-Do not act as if your were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
-A thing is neither better nor worse for having been praised.
-Nothing is too early or too late if it is in due time for you.
-A man should take away not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts so that superfluous acts will not follow after.
-Make yourself all simplicity.
Your life is short. You must turn to profit the present by the aid of reason and justice. Be sober in your relaxation.
-Acting justly is the only true wisdom.
-Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul.
-You are a little soul bearing up a corpse.
-Time is like a river made up of the events that happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away, too.
-The death of earth is to become water; and the death of water is to become air; and the death of air si to become fire, and reversely.
-Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are.
-Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
-I am unhappy, because this has happened to me. Not so: say, I am happy, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.
-Say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Quotes
-I learned how to receive from friends what are esteemed favors, without being either humbled or letting them pass unnoticed.
-Refrain from fault-finding.
-All things flow.
-You will give yourself relief, if you do every act of your life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness, passionate aversion from the commands of reason, hypocrisy, self-love, and discontent with the portion that has been given to you.
-Give yourself time to learn something new and good.
-Offenses committed through desire are more blamable than those committed through anger.
-Since it is possible that you might depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly.
-How quickly all things disappear.
-Remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses.
-These two things then you must bear in mind: the one, that all things from eternity are of like forms and come round in a circle, and that it makes no difference whether a man shall see the same things during a hundred years or two hundred, or an infinite time; and the second, that he who lives longest ad he who will die soonest lose just the same. For the present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived.
-Everything that belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream and vapor.
-What then can guide a man? One thing and only one, philosophy.
-Refrain from fault-finding.
-All things flow.
-You will give yourself relief, if you do every act of your life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness, passionate aversion from the commands of reason, hypocrisy, self-love, and discontent with the portion that has been given to you.
-Give yourself time to learn something new and good.
-Offenses committed through desire are more blamable than those committed through anger.
-Since it is possible that you might depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly.
-How quickly all things disappear.
-Remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses.
-These two things then you must bear in mind: the one, that all things from eternity are of like forms and come round in a circle, and that it makes no difference whether a man shall see the same things during a hundred years or two hundred, or an infinite time; and the second, that he who lives longest ad he who will die soonest lose just the same. For the present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived.
-Everything that belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream and vapor.
-What then can guide a man? One thing and only one, philosophy.
Monday, February 5, 2018
Journey of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes IX
-Each of us voluntarily agreed to be the children of a given set of parents before we came into this life.
-The lesson we must learn from human relationships is accepting people for who they are without expecting our happiness to be totally dependent upon anyone.
-Is it coincidence, ESP, deja vu, or synchronicity when the right time and place come together and you meet someone for the first time who will bring meaning into your life?
-The signs are placed in our mind now in order to job our memories later as humans.
What kind of signs?
Flags. Markers in the road of life. The road signs kick us into a new directions in life at certain times when something important is supposed to happen... and then we must know the signs to recognize one another, too.
-The recognition class is a final review... bringing all of us together. There will be special triggers for each of these people.
-Why don't our guides just give us the answers we need on Earth? Why all this fooling around with signs to remember things? For the same reason we go to Earth without knowing everything in advance. Our soul power grows with what we discover. Sometimes our lessons get resolved pretty fast... usually not. The most interesting part of the road are the turns and it's best not to ignore the flags in our mind.
-Recognition signs.
-We were attracted to each other on Earth because inside our minds was the memory of what we were supposed to look like.
-The signs are there. There are times in my lives when I change directions because of too much thinking and analysis. Or, I do nothing for the same reasons.
-Some of our best decisions come from what we call instinct.
-My subjects say if they were to compare the moment of birth with that of death, the physical shock of being born is much greater.
-Once birth has taken place, the union of spirit and flesh has been fully solidified into a partnership. The immortal soul then becomes the seat of perception for the developing human ego.
-A major aspect of our mission on Earth as souls is to mentally survive being cut off from our real home.
-All the accounts of life after death in my case files have no scientific foundation to prove the statements of these subjects.
-We are divine but imperfect beings who exist in two worlds, material and spiritual.
-The lesson we must learn from human relationships is accepting people for who they are without expecting our happiness to be totally dependent upon anyone.
-Is it coincidence, ESP, deja vu, or synchronicity when the right time and place come together and you meet someone for the first time who will bring meaning into your life?
-The signs are placed in our mind now in order to job our memories later as humans.
What kind of signs?
Flags. Markers in the road of life. The road signs kick us into a new directions in life at certain times when something important is supposed to happen... and then we must know the signs to recognize one another, too.
-The recognition class is a final review... bringing all of us together. There will be special triggers for each of these people.
-Why don't our guides just give us the answers we need on Earth? Why all this fooling around with signs to remember things? For the same reason we go to Earth without knowing everything in advance. Our soul power grows with what we discover. Sometimes our lessons get resolved pretty fast... usually not. The most interesting part of the road are the turns and it's best not to ignore the flags in our mind.
-Recognition signs.
-We were attracted to each other on Earth because inside our minds was the memory of what we were supposed to look like.
-The signs are there. There are times in my lives when I change directions because of too much thinking and analysis. Or, I do nothing for the same reasons.
-Some of our best decisions come from what we call instinct.
-My subjects say if they were to compare the moment of birth with that of death, the physical shock of being born is much greater.
-Once birth has taken place, the union of spirit and flesh has been fully solidified into a partnership. The immortal soul then becomes the seat of perception for the developing human ego.
-A major aspect of our mission on Earth as souls is to mentally survive being cut off from our real home.
-All the accounts of life after death in my case files have no scientific foundation to prove the statements of these subjects.
-We are divine but imperfect beings who exist in two worlds, material and spiritual.
Journey of souls by M. Newton. Quotes VIII
-When we enter the space of life selection, we are full of hope, promise, and lofty expectations. Here, souls are virtually alone, with their guides out of sight, while evaluating new life options.
-Without knowing why, most people believe their life has a plan.
-Whenever I am confused about what to do in life, I quietly sit down and think about where I have been and compare this to where I might want to go in future. The answer to the next step just comes to me from inside myself.
-During our lives all of us will experience opportunities for change which involve risk. These occasions may come at inconvenient times. We may not act upon them, but the challenge is there for us. The purpose of reincarnation is the exercise of free will. Without this ability, we would be impotent creatures indeed.
-The law of cause and effect for our actions always exists.
-We are the masters of our destiny.
-If souls choose a life where their death will be premature, they often see it in the place of life selection. I have found that souls essentially volunteer in advance for bodies who will have sudden fatal illnesses, are to be killed by someone, or come to an abrupt end of life with many others from a catastrophic event. Souls who become involved in these tragedies are not caught in the wrong place at the wrong time with a capricious God looking the other way. Every soul has a motive for the events in which it chooses to participate.
-Blueprints for the next life vary in the degree of difficulty the soul-mind sets for itself. If we just come off an easy life, making little interpersonal progress, our soul might want to choose a person in the next time cycle who will face heartache and perhaps tragedy.
-My cases show few real accidents involving body damage which don't fall under the free will of souls.
-When a soul is inside a damaged body, this choice can involve a learning path to another type of lesson.
-Sometimes one of the most important lessons is to learn to just let go of the past.
-Subjects will see his real mother again.
-Without knowing why, most people believe their life has a plan.
-Whenever I am confused about what to do in life, I quietly sit down and think about where I have been and compare this to where I might want to go in future. The answer to the next step just comes to me from inside myself.
-During our lives all of us will experience opportunities for change which involve risk. These occasions may come at inconvenient times. We may not act upon them, but the challenge is there for us. The purpose of reincarnation is the exercise of free will. Without this ability, we would be impotent creatures indeed.
-The law of cause and effect for our actions always exists.
-We are the masters of our destiny.
-If souls choose a life where their death will be premature, they often see it in the place of life selection. I have found that souls essentially volunteer in advance for bodies who will have sudden fatal illnesses, are to be killed by someone, or come to an abrupt end of life with many others from a catastrophic event. Souls who become involved in these tragedies are not caught in the wrong place at the wrong time with a capricious God looking the other way. Every soul has a motive for the events in which it chooses to participate.
-Blueprints for the next life vary in the degree of difficulty the soul-mind sets for itself. If we just come off an easy life, making little interpersonal progress, our soul might want to choose a person in the next time cycle who will face heartache and perhaps tragedy.
-My cases show few real accidents involving body damage which don't fall under the free will of souls.
-When a soul is inside a damaged body, this choice can involve a learning path to another type of lesson.
-Sometimes one of the most important lessons is to learn to just let go of the past.
-Subjects will see his real mother again.
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Journey of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes VII
-Time is not in Earth years for us.
-The supreme intelligence she calls the source is made up of a combination of creators (the Old Ones) who fuse their energy to spawn universes.
-The Earth school is insecure, still. It is a world in conflict because there is too much diversity among too many people. Other worlds have low population with more harmony.
-Souls do come across time and space for each other.
-There comes that time when the soul must once again leave the sanctuary of the spirit world for another trip to Earth.
-Our karma of past deeds towards humanity and our mistakes and achievements have all been evaluated with an eye toward the best course of future endeavors. The soul must now assimilate all this information and take purposeful action based upon three primary decision:
. Am I ready for a new physical life?
. What specific lessons do I want to undertake to advance my learning and development?
. Where should I go, and who shall I be in my next life for the best opportunity to work on my goals?
-Older souls incarnate less, regardless of the population demands of their assigned planets. When a world dies, those entities with unfinished business move on to another world which has a suitable life form for the kind of work they have been doing. Cycles of incarnation for the eternal soul seem to be regulated more by the internal desires of a particular soul, than by the urgency of host bodies evolving in a universe of planets.
-I have said souls do have the freedom to choose when, where, and who they want to be in their physical lives.
-Once a soul has decided to incarnate again, the next stage in the return process is to be directed to the place of life selection.
-The supreme intelligence she calls the source is made up of a combination of creators (the Old Ones) who fuse their energy to spawn universes.
-The Earth school is insecure, still. It is a world in conflict because there is too much diversity among too many people. Other worlds have low population with more harmony.
-Souls do come across time and space for each other.
-There comes that time when the soul must once again leave the sanctuary of the spirit world for another trip to Earth.
-Our karma of past deeds towards humanity and our mistakes and achievements have all been evaluated with an eye toward the best course of future endeavors. The soul must now assimilate all this information and take purposeful action based upon three primary decision:
. Am I ready for a new physical life?
. What specific lessons do I want to undertake to advance my learning and development?
. Where should I go, and who shall I be in my next life for the best opportunity to work on my goals?
-Older souls incarnate less, regardless of the population demands of their assigned planets. When a world dies, those entities with unfinished business move on to another world which has a suitable life form for the kind of work they have been doing. Cycles of incarnation for the eternal soul seem to be regulated more by the internal desires of a particular soul, than by the urgency of host bodies evolving in a universe of planets.
-I have said souls do have the freedom to choose when, where, and who they want to be in their physical lives.
-Once a soul has decided to incarnate again, the next stage in the return process is to be directed to the place of life selection.
Monday, January 22, 2018
Journey of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes VI
-I believe almost three-quarters of all souls who inhabit human bodies on Earth today are still in the early stages of development.
-Soul development is a complex matter where we all progress by degrees in a variety of areas in an uneven manner. The important thing is to recognize our faults, avoid self-denial, and have the courage and self-sufficiency to make constant adjustments in our lives.
-The more advanced souls of this world possess remarkable comprehension of a universal life plan.
-The richness of diversity is part of a master plan for the advancement of every soul.
-The more pain and adversity which come to you as a child, the more opportunity to expand your potential.
-Planets don't last forever.
-The World Without Ego, the World of All Knowing, the World of Creation and Non-Creation and the World of Altered Time.
-The mark of an advanced spirit is one who has patience with society and shows extraordinary coping skills.
-They do live simply. Material things mean nothing to them.
-Being in many physical bodies and different settings expands the nature of our real self.
-My larger mission is to combat the fear of death by offering people understanding about the nature of their souls and their spiritual home.
-I implant ideas, which they assume is inspiration, to try and give them peace.
-Soul development is a complex matter where we all progress by degrees in a variety of areas in an uneven manner. The important thing is to recognize our faults, avoid self-denial, and have the courage and self-sufficiency to make constant adjustments in our lives.
-The more advanced souls of this world possess remarkable comprehension of a universal life plan.
-The richness of diversity is part of a master plan for the advancement of every soul.
-The more pain and adversity which come to you as a child, the more opportunity to expand your potential.
-Planets don't last forever.
-The World Without Ego, the World of All Knowing, the World of Creation and Non-Creation and the World of Altered Time.
-The mark of an advanced spirit is one who has patience with society and shows extraordinary coping skills.
-They do live simply. Material things mean nothing to them.
-Being in many physical bodies and different settings expands the nature of our real self.
-My larger mission is to combat the fear of death by offering people understanding about the nature of their souls and their spiritual home.
-I implant ideas, which they assume is inspiration, to try and give them peace.
Journey of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes V
-What do you see?
People I know... some of my family... off in the distance...
He is telling me to be patient and everything will become clear to me...
-These are my people! Oh, it's fun seeing them all again.
-When recalling their memories between homecoming and placement, my subjects sometimes express concern that an important individual was not present in light form or did not communicate with them telepathically. Often this is a parent or spouse in the life just completed. By the end of the transition stage, the reason usually becomes evident. Frequently it has to do with embodiment.
-After souls arrive back into their soul groups, they are summoned to appear before a Council of Elders. While the Council is not prosecutorial, they do engage in direct examination of a soul's activities before returning them to their groups.
-Everyone has a designated place in the spirit world. Group placement is determined by soul level.
-Members of the same cluster group are closely united for all eternity.
-Then we can see... in miniature... our past lives and the alternatives to discuss the value of our choices.
-Each living person projects their own colored aura.
-The spirit world resemble one great schoolhouse with a multitude of classrooms under the direction of teacher-souls who monitor our progress.
-It is important to understand that while we may suffer the consequences of bad choices in our educational tasks, we are always protected, supported, and directed within the system by master souls.
-I have never worked with a subject in trance who did not have a personal guide.
-These friends are able to offer mental encouragement from the spirit world while we are on Earth, and they can be with us as incarnated human companions while we walk the roads of life.
-Our personal guides help us cope with the separateness and isolation which every soul inherits at physical birth, regardless of the degree of love extended by our family.
-If we are relaxed and in a state of concentrated focus, an inner voice speaks to us. And, even if we didn't initiate the message we should trust what we hear.
-People unable to help themselves in critical situations may find counselors, friends, and even strangers coming to their aid at just the right moment.
-Guides don't help solve all the problems at once, rather they illuminate pathways by the use of clues.
People I know... some of my family... off in the distance...
He is telling me to be patient and everything will become clear to me...
-These are my people! Oh, it's fun seeing them all again.
-When recalling their memories between homecoming and placement, my subjects sometimes express concern that an important individual was not present in light form or did not communicate with them telepathically. Often this is a parent or spouse in the life just completed. By the end of the transition stage, the reason usually becomes evident. Frequently it has to do with embodiment.
-After souls arrive back into their soul groups, they are summoned to appear before a Council of Elders. While the Council is not prosecutorial, they do engage in direct examination of a soul's activities before returning them to their groups.
-Everyone has a designated place in the spirit world. Group placement is determined by soul level.
-Members of the same cluster group are closely united for all eternity.
-Then we can see... in miniature... our past lives and the alternatives to discuss the value of our choices.
-Each living person projects their own colored aura.
-The spirit world resemble one great schoolhouse with a multitude of classrooms under the direction of teacher-souls who monitor our progress.
-It is important to understand that while we may suffer the consequences of bad choices in our educational tasks, we are always protected, supported, and directed within the system by master souls.
-I have never worked with a subject in trance who did not have a personal guide.
-These friends are able to offer mental encouragement from the spirit world while we are on Earth, and they can be with us as incarnated human companions while we walk the roads of life.
-Our personal guides help us cope with the separateness and isolation which every soul inherits at physical birth, regardless of the degree of love extended by our family.
-If we are relaxed and in a state of concentrated focus, an inner voice speaks to us. And, even if we didn't initiate the message we should trust what we hear.
-People unable to help themselves in critical situations may find counselors, friends, and even strangers coming to their aid at just the right moment.
-Guides don't help solve all the problems at once, rather they illuminate pathways by the use of clues.
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Journey of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes IV
-Our eternal identity never leaves us alone in the bodies we choose, despite our current status. In reflection, meditation, or prayer, the memories of who we really are do filter down to us in selective thought each day. In small, intuitive ways, through the cloud of amnesia, we are given clues for the justification of our being.
-Souls are created in a positive matrix of such love and wisdom that when a soul starts to come to a planet like Earth and join the physical beings who have evolved from a primitive state, the violence is a shock. Humans have the raw, negative emotions of anger and hate as an outgrowth of their fear and pain connected with survival going back to the Stone Age.
-The test of reincarnation for a soul coming to Earth is the conquering of fear in a human body. A soul grows by trying to overcome all negative emotions connected to fear through perseverance in many lifetimes, often returning to the spirit world bruised or hurt.
-The feedback and past life analysis we receive in terms of judgement is based upon the original intent of our choices as much as the actions of a lifetime.
-Conscience is the soul's responsibility.
-Souls are created in a positive matrix of such love and wisdom that when a soul starts to come to a planet like Earth and join the physical beings who have evolved from a primitive state, the violence is a shock. Humans have the raw, negative emotions of anger and hate as an outgrowth of their fear and pain connected with survival going back to the Stone Age.
-The test of reincarnation for a soul coming to Earth is the conquering of fear in a human body. A soul grows by trying to overcome all negative emotions connected to fear through perseverance in many lifetimes, often returning to the spirit world bruised or hurt.
-The feedback and past life analysis we receive in terms of judgement is based upon the original intent of our choices as much as the actions of a lifetime.
-Conscience is the soul's responsibility.
Journey of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes III
-All my case work with the spirits of my subjects has convinced me there is no residence of terrible suffering for souls, except on Earth.
-There are not accidents in our lives.
-Our future destiny is influenced by a past from which we cannot escape, especially when we injure others.
-By conquering fear and taking risks, our karmic pattern adjusts to the effects of new choices.
-At the end of every life, rather than having a monster waiting to devour our souls, we serve as our most severe critic in front of teacher-guides. This is why karma is both just and merciful. With the help of our spiritual counselors and peers we decide on the proper mode of justice for our conduct.
-Souls must learn to cope in different ways with each new human being assigned to them.
-After those entities who meet us during our homecoming have dispersed, we are ready to be taken to a space of healing. I think of the healing station as a field hospital for damaged souls coming off Earth's battlefields.
-My very expression, who I am as a being, was affected by the brain and body I occupied.
-The shower of healing is only a prelude for the rehabilitation of returning souls.
-I talk to Amephus (my guide) about the sad and happy times of the life I have finished. I know I made mistakes, but she is so kind to me. We laugh and cry together while I reminisce. Then we discuss all the things I didn't do that I might have done with my life. But in the end it's okay. She knows I must rest in this beautiful world. I am going to relax. I don't care if I ever go back to Earth again because my real home is here.
-What you became is not how you started. We chose your parents carefully.
-There is an agreement with our advisers. We agree... not to remember... other lives. The new life must be... taken seriously. Without having old memories, our advisers say there is less preoccupation for... trying to... avenge the past... to get even for the wrongs done to you.
-It's not a total blackout. We get flashes from dreams... during times of crisis... people have an inner knowing of what direction to take when it is necessary. And sometimes your friends can fudge a little...
-There are not accidents in our lives.
-Our future destiny is influenced by a past from which we cannot escape, especially when we injure others.
-By conquering fear and taking risks, our karmic pattern adjusts to the effects of new choices.
-At the end of every life, rather than having a monster waiting to devour our souls, we serve as our most severe critic in front of teacher-guides. This is why karma is both just and merciful. With the help of our spiritual counselors and peers we decide on the proper mode of justice for our conduct.
-Souls must learn to cope in different ways with each new human being assigned to them.
-After those entities who meet us during our homecoming have dispersed, we are ready to be taken to a space of healing. I think of the healing station as a field hospital for damaged souls coming off Earth's battlefields.
-My very expression, who I am as a being, was affected by the brain and body I occupied.
-The shower of healing is only a prelude for the rehabilitation of returning souls.
-I talk to Amephus (my guide) about the sad and happy times of the life I have finished. I know I made mistakes, but she is so kind to me. We laugh and cry together while I reminisce. Then we discuss all the things I didn't do that I might have done with my life. But in the end it's okay. She knows I must rest in this beautiful world. I am going to relax. I don't care if I ever go back to Earth again because my real home is here.
-What you became is not how you started. We chose your parents carefully.
-There is an agreement with our advisers. We agree... not to remember... other lives. The new life must be... taken seriously. Without having old memories, our advisers say there is less preoccupation for... trying to... avenge the past... to get even for the wrongs done to you.
-It's not a total blackout. We get flashes from dreams... during times of crisis... people have an inner knowing of what direction to take when it is necessary. And sometimes your friends can fudge a little...
Journey of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes II
-Important people in our lives are always able to greet us, even though they may already be living another life in a new body.
-Our reception committee in planned in advance for us as we enter the spirit world.
-The emotional meetings which take place between souls at this interval in a spiritual passage are only a prelude to our eventual placement within a specific group of entities at our own maturity level.
-What type of after-death meeting we do experience appears to involve the particular style of our spiritual guide along with requisites of our individual character. I find the duration of this first meeting with our guides does vary after each life depending upon the circumstances of that life.
-Are you saying that sometimes on Earth when two people look at each other, they may feel they have known one another before?
-Yes, it's deja vu.
-Physical past lives in non-human form on other planets is always challenging. Recollection of these experiences are usually limited to older, more advanced souls.
-The essential purpose of reincarnation is self-improvement.
-The evolution of souls involves a transition from imperfection to perfection based upon overcoming many difficult body assignments during their task-oriented lives.
-Souls receive an initial review of their past life with guides before moving on to join their friends.
-Our reception committee in planned in advance for us as we enter the spirit world.
-The emotional meetings which take place between souls at this interval in a spiritual passage are only a prelude to our eventual placement within a specific group of entities at our own maturity level.
-What type of after-death meeting we do experience appears to involve the particular style of our spiritual guide along with requisites of our individual character. I find the duration of this first meeting with our guides does vary after each life depending upon the circumstances of that life.
-Are you saying that sometimes on Earth when two people look at each other, they may feel they have known one another before?
-Yes, it's deja vu.
-Physical past lives in non-human form on other planets is always challenging. Recollection of these experiences are usually limited to older, more advanced souls.
-The essential purpose of reincarnation is self-improvement.
-The evolution of souls involves a transition from imperfection to perfection based upon overcoming many difficult body assignments during their task-oriented lives.
-Souls receive an initial review of their past life with guides before moving on to join their friends.
Journey of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes.
-We have built-in amnesia about soul identity.
-I miss some friends in my group and that's why I get so lonely on Earth.
-It's wonderful to feel so free with no more pain.
-Contrary to what some people believe, souls often have little interest in what happens to their bodies once they are physically dead. This is not callousness over personal situations and the people they leave behind on Earth, but an acknowledgment of these souls to the finality of mortal death. They have a desire to hurry on their way to the beauty of the spirit world.
-Those who have just died are not devastated about their death, because they know those left on Earth will see them again in the spirit world and probably later in other lives as well. On the other hand, mourners at a funeral generally feel they have lost a loved one forever.
-Despite their many activities, these departed souls are still able to reach us if called upon.
-We forfeit our body in death, but our eternal life energy unites with the force of a divine oversoul. Death is not darkness, but light.
-I find it is the younger souls with fewer past lives who remain attached to Earth's environment right after death.
-Our guides and a number of soulmates and friends wait for us close to the gateway to provide recognition, affection, and the assurance we are all right.
-I miss some friends in my group and that's why I get so lonely on Earth.
-It's wonderful to feel so free with no more pain.
-Contrary to what some people believe, souls often have little interest in what happens to their bodies once they are physically dead. This is not callousness over personal situations and the people they leave behind on Earth, but an acknowledgment of these souls to the finality of mortal death. They have a desire to hurry on their way to the beauty of the spirit world.
-Those who have just died are not devastated about their death, because they know those left on Earth will see them again in the spirit world and probably later in other lives as well. On the other hand, mourners at a funeral generally feel they have lost a loved one forever.
-Despite their many activities, these departed souls are still able to reach us if called upon.
-We forfeit our body in death, but our eternal life energy unites with the force of a divine oversoul. Death is not darkness, but light.
-I find it is the younger souls with fewer past lives who remain attached to Earth's environment right after death.
-Our guides and a number of soulmates and friends wait for us close to the gateway to provide recognition, affection, and the assurance we are all right.
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Tom Bilyeu reading list
1. Mindset: the new Psychology by Carol Dweck.
2. Extreme ownership: how U.S. Nave Seals lead and win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin.
3. Man's search for meaning by Viktor Frankle.
4. Grit: the power of passion and perseverance by Angela Duckworth.
5. Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn by John Maxwell.
6. The obstacle is the way: the timeless art of turning trials into triumph by Ryan Holiday.
7. Linchpin: are you indispensable? By Seth Godin
8. Relentless: from good to great to unstoppable by Tim Grover.
9. Start with why: how great leaders inspire everyone to take action by Simon Sinek
10. Daring greatly by Brene Brown.
11. Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill.
12. The E myth revisited by Michael E. Gerber.
13. Bold: how to go big, create wealth and impact the world by P. Diamandis & S. Kotler.
14. The talent code: greatness is not born is grown. Here's how by Daniel Coyle.
15. Eleven rings: the soul of success by Phil Jackson.
16. Onward: how Starbacks fought for its life without losing its soul by Howard Schultz.
17. Leaders eat last by Simon Sinek
18. Mastery by Robert Greene
2. Extreme ownership: how U.S. Nave Seals lead and win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin.
3. Man's search for meaning by Viktor Frankle.
4. Grit: the power of passion and perseverance by Angela Duckworth.
5. Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn by John Maxwell.
6. The obstacle is the way: the timeless art of turning trials into triumph by Ryan Holiday.
7. Linchpin: are you indispensable? By Seth Godin
8. Relentless: from good to great to unstoppable by Tim Grover.
9. Start with why: how great leaders inspire everyone to take action by Simon Sinek
10. Daring greatly by Brene Brown.
11. Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill.
12. The E myth revisited by Michael E. Gerber.
13. Bold: how to go big, create wealth and impact the world by P. Diamandis & S. Kotler.
14. The talent code: greatness is not born is grown. Here's how by Daniel Coyle.
15. Eleven rings: the soul of success by Phil Jackson.
16. Onward: how Starbacks fought for its life without losing its soul by Howard Schultz.
17. Leaders eat last by Simon Sinek
18. Mastery by Robert Greene
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Love from Heaven. By Lorna Byrne. Quotes VI
-The key to forgiveness is looking at yourself and others with compassion and understanding.
-God created us, fell in love with us, and it was because of this that he decided he would give all human beings a soul.
-God gave each and every one of us a part of himself, that speck of light of God that is our soul.
-God appoints a guardian angel for each soul. The guardian angel finds the soul that has been appointed to guide it. During this time, the soul and the guardian angel talk to each other, sharing with great love and joy getting to know each other.
-Standing in front of God the real connection between the guardian angel and soul is made.
-Because of God's overwhelming love for us, his children, he has appointed a guardian angel as gatekeeper of our souls and has charged it with bringing us back safely home to him in heaven. God is waiting on each and every one of us to come home.
-Your guardian angel can never leave you. it doesn't want to leave you anyway; it is constantly in the presence of your soul, which is a speck of the light of God, so that your guardian angel is continuously in God's presence.
-The guardian angel holds on to the soul with its hands and brings it from heaven to earth, just as it will do at the end of a life, bringing the soul back to heaven.
-God is God! There is only one God and we all share him.
-Pure love remains there within you always for the rest of your life.
-So many people are unable to see the beauty in themselves because they compare themselves to others and that this is a major block to loving yourself.
-God created us, fell in love with us, and it was because of this that he decided he would give all human beings a soul.
-God gave each and every one of us a part of himself, that speck of light of God that is our soul.
-God appoints a guardian angel for each soul. The guardian angel finds the soul that has been appointed to guide it. During this time, the soul and the guardian angel talk to each other, sharing with great love and joy getting to know each other.
-Standing in front of God the real connection between the guardian angel and soul is made.
-Because of God's overwhelming love for us, his children, he has appointed a guardian angel as gatekeeper of our souls and has charged it with bringing us back safely home to him in heaven. God is waiting on each and every one of us to come home.
-Your guardian angel can never leave you. it doesn't want to leave you anyway; it is constantly in the presence of your soul, which is a speck of the light of God, so that your guardian angel is continuously in God's presence.
-The guardian angel holds on to the soul with its hands and brings it from heaven to earth, just as it will do at the end of a life, bringing the soul back to heaven.
-God is God! There is only one God and we all share him.
-Pure love remains there within you always for the rest of your life.
-So many people are unable to see the beauty in themselves because they compare themselves to others and that this is a major block to loving yourself.
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Love from Heaven. By Lorna Byrne. Quotes V
-He needed to remember the times when he had felt the energy of love of life and to bring that positivity into his life now.
-Enjoying life is a decision we all need to make, no matter how rough things may seem.
-If we get into the habit of enjoying life, and seeing the good things there, it is easier to lift ourselves out of a blue period.
-God has told me that we are meant to be happy, that we are meant to love every step, every breath we take.
-Why doesn't God make it easier for us to love life? I don't know why some people seem to have very tough lives, why they suffer ill health, or lose loves ones. I have no answer for this.
-This earth is a gift from God.
-Sustaining a marriage is hard work. Couples have to work all the time to remind themselves why they fell in love in the first place, and to look back and reconnect with this love.
-If we are prepared to really try to save a relationship , the angels of romantic love and other angels will give us tremendous support.
-We all have the free choice to stop this bitterness. We do it by making a conscious decision to stop when we feel provoked, to consciously not to react.
-We all have a unique role to play in this world, a role that no one else can play. And yet we waste so much of our lives comparing ourselves to others. This might seem harmless, but it's one the seeds of hate.
-We all need to be aware when hurtful or hateful things are being said about people. We all have a responsibility to stop cycles of hatred being built up.
-Anger is one of the ways that we feed hate.
-Righteous anger gives you the courage to stand up for yourself and, if necessary, to take the steps to protect yourself, those you love, and the things you believe are right.
-These two young men were aware that they had the freedom to decide that they didn't want to continue this cycle, that they knew they had the potential to decide to break the cycle of hate and revenge within their own families, so that it wouldn't be passed on to their children in the way it had been passed on to them.
-When we choose not to give in to hate, not to feed it with negative thoughts, we allow our lives to be much more fulfilled.
-Enjoying life is a decision we all need to make, no matter how rough things may seem.
-If we get into the habit of enjoying life, and seeing the good things there, it is easier to lift ourselves out of a blue period.
-God has told me that we are meant to be happy, that we are meant to love every step, every breath we take.
-Why doesn't God make it easier for us to love life? I don't know why some people seem to have very tough lives, why they suffer ill health, or lose loves ones. I have no answer for this.
-This earth is a gift from God.
-Sustaining a marriage is hard work. Couples have to work all the time to remind themselves why they fell in love in the first place, and to look back and reconnect with this love.
-If we are prepared to really try to save a relationship , the angels of romantic love and other angels will give us tremendous support.
-We all have the free choice to stop this bitterness. We do it by making a conscious decision to stop when we feel provoked, to consciously not to react.
-We all have a unique role to play in this world, a role that no one else can play. And yet we waste so much of our lives comparing ourselves to others. This might seem harmless, but it's one the seeds of hate.
-We all need to be aware when hurtful or hateful things are being said about people. We all have a responsibility to stop cycles of hatred being built up.
-Anger is one of the ways that we feed hate.
-Righteous anger gives you the courage to stand up for yourself and, if necessary, to take the steps to protect yourself, those you love, and the things you believe are right.
-These two young men were aware that they had the freedom to decide that they didn't want to continue this cycle, that they knew they had the potential to decide to break the cycle of hate and revenge within their own families, so that it wouldn't be passed on to their children in the way it had been passed on to them.
-When we choose not to give in to hate, not to feed it with negative thoughts, we allow our lives to be much more fulfilled.
Monday, December 18, 2017
Love from Heaven. By Lorna Byrne. Quotes IV
-When someone dies, all of these differences are washed away; all the human imperfections that lead to rows and anger disappear and the soul of the parent simply feels pure love for children who are left behind.
-Don't be afraid to talk to them.
-Kindness is love.
-We have been given guardian angels because we have souls; our guardian angels are the gatekeepers of our souls.
-Let me suggest three things the angels have told me that each and everyone of us can do, and need to do, as individuals:
. Spend more quality time with children.
. Be an example to children.
. Stand up for children.
-We adults have become more preoccupied and focused on our own fulfillment.
-The more conscious you become of loving life, the more you build up this energy, which helps you physically and mentally.
-When you approach work or any task with love of life, the task becomes so much easier, you gain more confidence, and start to see the positives in the work you are doing.
-Don't be afraid to talk to them.
-Kindness is love.
-We have been given guardian angels because we have souls; our guardian angels are the gatekeepers of our souls.
-Let me suggest three things the angels have told me that each and everyone of us can do, and need to do, as individuals:
. Spend more quality time with children.
. Be an example to children.
. Stand up for children.
-We adults have become more preoccupied and focused on our own fulfillment.
-The more conscious you become of loving life, the more you build up this energy, which helps you physically and mentally.
-When you approach work or any task with love of life, the task becomes so much easier, you gain more confidence, and start to see the positives in the work you are doing.
Love from Heaven. By Lorna Bryne. Quotes III
-Showing our true self is a risk, but it is a risk worth taking.
-Friendship helps to see fragments of the world through other people's eyes, and this opens us up to the fact that our perspective may not be the only one, and may in fact be wrong.
-The next time you are with your friends, observe who is allowing their true selves to show, warts and all, and who is keeping the barriers up, presenting themselves and their lives as perfect. It may be you.
-What binds people together in powerful and close friendship is trust, the confidence that you can trust that good friend with everything in your life.
-When we think lovingly of someone and wish them well, it's a form of prayer, and is received by God as such.
-Friendship is love, and love is what makes our lives worth living.
-Each and everyone of us has a soul, and all of our souls are one; they are all a part of God.
-We each have a soulmate, a soul we knew in Heaven and have a special connection with, but in most cases this person is not our romantic partner, and you will not necessarily even meet.
-You chose your parents before you were conceived. You chose them knowing their strengths and their weaknesses.
-You need to say the words. If your parents has already gone home to Heaven, you can still tell them now and they will hear you.
-Our parents, though, while they may be in Heaven are with us when we need them.
-Your mum is in and around you, she is there when you need her. Your mum is with you, every time you think or talk about her.
-Friendship helps to see fragments of the world through other people's eyes, and this opens us up to the fact that our perspective may not be the only one, and may in fact be wrong.
-The next time you are with your friends, observe who is allowing their true selves to show, warts and all, and who is keeping the barriers up, presenting themselves and their lives as perfect. It may be you.
-What binds people together in powerful and close friendship is trust, the confidence that you can trust that good friend with everything in your life.
-When we think lovingly of someone and wish them well, it's a form of prayer, and is received by God as such.
-Friendship is love, and love is what makes our lives worth living.
-Each and everyone of us has a soul, and all of our souls are one; they are all a part of God.
-We each have a soulmate, a soul we knew in Heaven and have a special connection with, but in most cases this person is not our romantic partner, and you will not necessarily even meet.
-You chose your parents before you were conceived. You chose them knowing their strengths and their weaknesses.
-You need to say the words. If your parents has already gone home to Heaven, you can still tell them now and they will hear you.
-Our parents, though, while they may be in Heaven are with us when we need them.
-Your mum is in and around you, she is there when you need her. Your mum is with you, every time you think or talk about her.
Love from Heaven. By Lorna Byrne. Quotes II
-The first and most important thing adults can do is to lead by example.
-If we choose to love more, we will have greater happiness and joy in our own lives and be better able to play our unique role in creating a much more loving and peaceful world.
-When I was excluded, the angels with me would tell me that my family knew no better, and not to take it personally.
-We are asked that we allow our love to come forward and touch the love that is locked away in another's heart.
-The sadness and pain surrounding the death of a parent, brother or sister can bring with it an unexpected gift, and help families to become closer.
-The angels always tell me that when parents die, they want their children to become more loving and united. Parents continue from Heaven to work to bring siblings together.
-Think of Paul and tell him you love him; he will hear you.
-If we choose to love more, we will have greater happiness and joy in our own lives and be better able to play our unique role in creating a much more loving and peaceful world.
-When I was excluded, the angels with me would tell me that my family knew no better, and not to take it personally.
-We are asked that we allow our love to come forward and touch the love that is locked away in another's heart.
-The sadness and pain surrounding the death of a parent, brother or sister can bring with it an unexpected gift, and help families to become closer.
-The angels always tell me that when parents die, they want their children to become more loving and united. Parents continue from Heaven to work to bring siblings together.
-Think of Paul and tell him you love him; he will hear you.
Love from Heaven. By Lorna Byrne. Quotes
-If we are unable to love ourselves, we are unable to love another.
-Love is the most powerful force in the world; it comes from our soul, it comes from Heaven.
-I see angels all the time. I see them physically as clearly as I see my daughter sitting across the dinner table from me.
-We are all born pure love.
-When we don't let ourselves feel emotions such as compassion and love for our fellow human beings, even strangers, we become less human and this allows emotions such as hate and anger to flourish.
-Each and every one of us human beings has a soul.
-In a newborn baby who has just come from Heaven I see the soul much more forward in the body.
-Self-love is about valuing and loving who you are.
-Your guardian angel loves you unconditionally.
-"Dear God
Please help me to release that most
precious gift you have given me of
love,
That gift of love that comes from
Heaven and is connected to my soul.
Amen"
-We all need to be aware when tough things happen to us, that we have a choice of how to respond.
-Love is the most powerful force in the world; it comes from our soul, it comes from Heaven.
-I see angels all the time. I see them physically as clearly as I see my daughter sitting across the dinner table from me.
-We are all born pure love.
-When we don't let ourselves feel emotions such as compassion and love for our fellow human beings, even strangers, we become less human and this allows emotions such as hate and anger to flourish.
-Each and every one of us human beings has a soul.
-In a newborn baby who has just come from Heaven I see the soul much more forward in the body.
-Self-love is about valuing and loving who you are.
-Your guardian angel loves you unconditionally.
-"Dear God
Please help me to release that most
precious gift you have given me of
love,
That gift of love that comes from
Heaven and is connected to my soul.
Amen"
-We all need to be aware when tough things happen to us, that we have a choice of how to respond.
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Thursday, November 30, 2017
The state of flow. Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
How Does It Feel to Be in the Flow?
Thousands of people from every wake of like were interviewed by Dr. Csikszentmihalyi and his team in order to identify the key components of the flow state. These seven points summarize how those interviewed responded that they felt when in the flow state:
- You’re completely involved in what you’re doing: you’re completely focused and concentrated.
- There’s a sense of ecstasy–of being outside of everyday reality.
- There’s a great inner clarity: you know what needs to be done and you get immediate feedback on how well you’re doing.
- You know that the activity is doable, that you have the necessary skills to complete the task successfully.
- You lose your sense of self and all of your worries and concerns drift away.
- You lose track of time and you’re completely focused on the present moment.
- There’s an intrinsic motivation—whatever produces flow becomes it’s own reward.
Interestingly enough, the idea of flow came into being as result of research on happiness. Researchers began asking themselves: “What makes us happy?” and “When are we most happy”? As a result of this research psychologists realized that being able to enter the flow state–which is a very enjoyable experience–is a key component of happiness.
How to Achieve the Flow State
From everything stated above it can be seen that in order to achieve the flow state you need to do the following:
- Find a challenge. Choose something that you enjoy doing. It can be anything, whether it’s playing the piano, working on your novel, skiing, horseback riding, playing golf, and so on.
- Develop your skills in order to be able to meet the challenge. Remember that if something is too easy you’ll be bored–and your mind is likely to wander so you won’t achieve the flow state–, and if something is too hard you’ll be overwhelmed and you won’t be able to achieve that subconscious competence that is necessary for the flow state.
- Set clear goals. You want to be very clear on what you want to achieve and how you’ll know whether you’re succeeding. Here’s an example: “I’m going to write a blog post on how to achieve the flow state. I’ll know that I’m succeeding if I can clearly set forth what the flow state is, what it’s major components are, why it’s beneficial, and how to achieve it.”
- Focus completely on the task at hand. Eliminate all other distractions. You don’t want anything to take your attention away from the task that you’re performing; if your concentration is broken you’re going to exit the state of flow.
- Make sure that you’ve set aside sufficient time. It’s very likely that it’s going to take you at least fifteen minutes to start to get into the flow state, and a while longer after that until you’re fully immersed. Once you enter the flow state you want to make sure that you make the most of it, instead of having to stop prematurely because you have to go do something else.
- Monitor your emotional state. If you meet all of the requirements above, but you’re having trouble entering the flow state, monitor your emotional state. If you’re in an aroused state–angry, anxious, worried, and so on–, try doing something that will calm you down. Do you feel that your energy level is low and you’re feeling sluggish? Do something to pick up your energy levels, whether it’s doing jumping jacks, having a healthy snack, reading something motivational, or calling a friend who makes you laugh.
Conclusion
To conclude, here’s a quote from a poet on the flow state:
“It’s like opening a door that’s floating in the middle of nowhere and all you have to do is go and turn the handle and open it and let yourself sink into it. You can’t particularly force yourself through it. You just have to float. If there’s any gravitational pull, it’s from the outside world trying to keep you back from the door.”
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Knight. My story. Quotes XVII
-Pete Newell always used to tell me you should not stay any place very long.
-Constantly trying to get back to a level that very few have ever reached weighs on you.
-I have never felt my job was to win basketball games, rather that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life. To the absolute best of my ability, I have tried to provide them with a work ethic, and ability to excel at crucial times, and a determination to be as good as they could be at whatever they do.
-Not everyone you think is a friend is a friend. No one could possibly have more good friends in more walks of life that I have had. Those people, like me, don't confer friendship easily.
-When the one great scorer comes to mark against your name, it matters not that you won or lost, but how you played the game. Grantland Rice.
-Caring for and being honest with people is a pretty meaningful way to 'play the game'.
-Where I have been most fortunate is something I had nothing to do with. It occurred the moment I was born, to great parents, in America.
-A part of that grace is a responsibility I believe each of us has: to make sure we provide those who follow us with the same opportunities you and I were given by those who preceded us. That's uppermost among all that I have tried to do as a coach. I and thousands of other coaches and teachers that kids across this country have been fortunate enough to have at some point in their lives.
-Constantly trying to get back to a level that very few have ever reached weighs on you.
-I have never felt my job was to win basketball games, rather that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life. To the absolute best of my ability, I have tried to provide them with a work ethic, and ability to excel at crucial times, and a determination to be as good as they could be at whatever they do.
-Not everyone you think is a friend is a friend. No one could possibly have more good friends in more walks of life that I have had. Those people, like me, don't confer friendship easily.
-When the one great scorer comes to mark against your name, it matters not that you won or lost, but how you played the game. Grantland Rice.
-Caring for and being honest with people is a pretty meaningful way to 'play the game'.
-Where I have been most fortunate is something I had nothing to do with. It occurred the moment I was born, to great parents, in America.
-A part of that grace is a responsibility I believe each of us has: to make sure we provide those who follow us with the same opportunities you and I were given by those who preceded us. That's uppermost among all that I have tried to do as a coach. I and thousands of other coaches and teachers that kids across this country have been fortunate enough to have at some point in their lives.
Knight. My story. Quotes XVI
-What I missed most was spending every little idle moment with ideas going through my mind of what I could try tomorrow with the kids or the team I had, and then seen how those ideas worked. As long as I was coaching, I always kept a notepad next to the bed, in case I thought of something during the night that I wanted to write down, so I would not forget it.
-Our defense was offense without the ball.
-Winning is basically eliminating why you lose.
-You have to be single-minded. drive only for one thing on which you have decided... And if it looks as if you might be getting there, all kinds of people, including some you thought were your loyal friends, will suddenly show up doing their hypocritical God damnedest to trip you, blacken you, and break your spirit. General Patton.
-Only a few people understand the meaning of the word friend, and those people are special. An awful lot more have no idea of what the world entails.
-I've always felt time should be used well, and thinking is a great way to use it. All those years in coaching, I spent countless hours thinking about, working on, deciding what improvements could be made, how our team could be better, or I could get more out of a kid, or something that would enable us to be a better basketball team.
-I believe so strongly in some of the premises of my approach to coaching basketball that, as I have always hoped they will be for the kids I have coached, I find them valuable and applicable in my own real life.
-You have got to be back in coaching. Basketball needs you. Sports needs you. You are the last of a dying breed.
-I don't think you can survive an intense occupation without diversions that you love, things that take you away from work or get your mind on other things, or in a relaxed atmosphere, allow you to continue thinking about your job and what all is necessary with it.
-How much she could see in what she watched.
-Our defense was offense without the ball.
-Winning is basically eliminating why you lose.
-You have to be single-minded. drive only for one thing on which you have decided... And if it looks as if you might be getting there, all kinds of people, including some you thought were your loyal friends, will suddenly show up doing their hypocritical God damnedest to trip you, blacken you, and break your spirit. General Patton.
-Only a few people understand the meaning of the word friend, and those people are special. An awful lot more have no idea of what the world entails.
-I've always felt time should be used well, and thinking is a great way to use it. All those years in coaching, I spent countless hours thinking about, working on, deciding what improvements could be made, how our team could be better, or I could get more out of a kid, or something that would enable us to be a better basketball team.
-I believe so strongly in some of the premises of my approach to coaching basketball that, as I have always hoped they will be for the kids I have coached, I find them valuable and applicable in my own real life.
-You have got to be back in coaching. Basketball needs you. Sports needs you. You are the last of a dying breed.
-I don't think you can survive an intense occupation without diversions that you love, things that take you away from work or get your mind on other things, or in a relaxed atmosphere, allow you to continue thinking about your job and what all is necessary with it.
-How much she could see in what she watched.
Knight. My story. Quotes XV
-When I see in print something that has happened where I've been involved that is so different from what actually happened, how can I ever believe what's on the front page, either?
-They see the right to criticize as a one way street. The press can attack managers, coaches, players, teams, or presidents, but boy, if any of those people who are under attack dare to fire back, the whole profession is offended.
-Smitty's was a down-home place. No money was wasted on decor. Joe Kleine of our Olympic team reminded me just last fall of the time I told the team to get dressed up, I was taking them to a very nice restaurant and I didn't want them to be embarrassed. 'We entered this little diner through the kitchen with everyone laughing at us'. Joe said, 'and we proceeded to have a great time with the bunch of locals there'. that of course, was Smitty's.
-New Yorkers like David Halbersam or Dick Schaap would come into town and want to go to lunch, guys used to going to someplace expensive and elegant. With me they would get Smitty's, Rosie's, or the Marsh grocery deli. They would always want to pick up the tab, but that sometimes got complicated. Halberstam picked up the bill once, looked at it, and said: 'I can't turn this in. They would laugh at me'. The two of us had eaten for something like 5.45$.
But those places were perfect for me: cooks and employees and daily customers who kept me up on what was going on in their lives and otherwise left me and anyone with me pretty much alone, just part of their crown. I have already found some of the same kind of places in Lubbock.
-From a basketball standpoint, he was very average player with one outstanding quality, passing , understanding where people were.
-I used to ask players who they played with who understood the game best.
-Patrick Knight is my all time favorite Indiana player.
-They see the right to criticize as a one way street. The press can attack managers, coaches, players, teams, or presidents, but boy, if any of those people who are under attack dare to fire back, the whole profession is offended.
-Smitty's was a down-home place. No money was wasted on decor. Joe Kleine of our Olympic team reminded me just last fall of the time I told the team to get dressed up, I was taking them to a very nice restaurant and I didn't want them to be embarrassed. 'We entered this little diner through the kitchen with everyone laughing at us'. Joe said, 'and we proceeded to have a great time with the bunch of locals there'. that of course, was Smitty's.
-New Yorkers like David Halbersam or Dick Schaap would come into town and want to go to lunch, guys used to going to someplace expensive and elegant. With me they would get Smitty's, Rosie's, or the Marsh grocery deli. They would always want to pick up the tab, but that sometimes got complicated. Halberstam picked up the bill once, looked at it, and said: 'I can't turn this in. They would laugh at me'. The two of us had eaten for something like 5.45$.
But those places were perfect for me: cooks and employees and daily customers who kept me up on what was going on in their lives and otherwise left me and anyone with me pretty much alone, just part of their crown. I have already found some of the same kind of places in Lubbock.
-From a basketball standpoint, he was very average player with one outstanding quality, passing , understanding where people were.
-I used to ask players who they played with who understood the game best.
-Patrick Knight is my all time favorite Indiana player.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Knight. My story. Quotes XIV
-I love to coach and I love its human involvements.
-The last thing I expected was an orchestrated attempt to keep me from getting any job.
-If presidents anywhere truly want to clean up academics, they could do it with one simple rule: you tie the number of scholarships you can give to the number of graduates you have.
-I am Coach Knight or Mr. Knight to you. You should remember that the next time you are talking to an older person.
-The tactics each time were exactly the same: they fired, they fell back, they went to Plan B, character assassination. They did me a favor. They did what I could not bring myself to do. They got me out of there.
-When that meeting ended, I met with my coaches and told them I had no idea what Indiana would do with their contracts, but if they wound up out of a job without a settlement, not to worry, I would pay their salaries out of my own pocket and take all of them with me whenever and wherever I got a new job.
-I thought what a shame it was to be fired by people who were totally out of touch with what those kids, the heart of the university, represented.
-I read the affection of that turnout as an indication that they knew our players were always students, just like they were... that our players had to work like hell, we demanded a lot of them, but they also went to class, just like each of them did... and that they enjoyed going to basketball games, watching our kids play and rooting from them. If that was my last view and my last memory of Indiana University, it was one that will stay in my mind as long as I live.
-Brand limited full professors to two percent increases at the time athletic department personnel were getting a three and a half percent increase and key figures in my firing, Clapacs and Frapwell for two, were getting twenty five percent raises, about forty thousand dollars each. I have a feeling he did not mention any of those things in his Washington speech.
-He doesn't think he is ever wrong. I know I have been wrong many times, dozens of times. We are talking about twenty nine years. And I have acknowledged a temper problem that I have to work harder to corral. Balance those off against the things I have done right. It's not even close.
-I used to test myself:
How well do I get along with kids who player for me?
How well do I get along with coaches who have coached form me?
How well do I get along with opposing coaches?
How well do I get along with high school coaches?
How well did I get along with IU fans?
How well have I gotten along really with basketball officials?
With all of those groups, I would say I have gotten along good to great. Who have not I gotten along with? The press.
-The last thing I expected was an orchestrated attempt to keep me from getting any job.
-If presidents anywhere truly want to clean up academics, they could do it with one simple rule: you tie the number of scholarships you can give to the number of graduates you have.
-I am Coach Knight or Mr. Knight to you. You should remember that the next time you are talking to an older person.
-The tactics each time were exactly the same: they fired, they fell back, they went to Plan B, character assassination. They did me a favor. They did what I could not bring myself to do. They got me out of there.
-When that meeting ended, I met with my coaches and told them I had no idea what Indiana would do with their contracts, but if they wound up out of a job without a settlement, not to worry, I would pay their salaries out of my own pocket and take all of them with me whenever and wherever I got a new job.
-I thought what a shame it was to be fired by people who were totally out of touch with what those kids, the heart of the university, represented.
-I read the affection of that turnout as an indication that they knew our players were always students, just like they were... that our players had to work like hell, we demanded a lot of them, but they also went to class, just like each of them did... and that they enjoyed going to basketball games, watching our kids play and rooting from them. If that was my last view and my last memory of Indiana University, it was one that will stay in my mind as long as I live.
-Brand limited full professors to two percent increases at the time athletic department personnel were getting a three and a half percent increase and key figures in my firing, Clapacs and Frapwell for two, were getting twenty five percent raises, about forty thousand dollars each. I have a feeling he did not mention any of those things in his Washington speech.
-He doesn't think he is ever wrong. I know I have been wrong many times, dozens of times. We are talking about twenty nine years. And I have acknowledged a temper problem that I have to work harder to corral. Balance those off against the things I have done right. It's not even close.
-I used to test myself:
How well do I get along with kids who player for me?
How well do I get along with coaches who have coached form me?
How well do I get along with opposing coaches?
How well do I get along with high school coaches?
How well did I get along with IU fans?
How well have I gotten along really with basketball officials?
With all of those groups, I would say I have gotten along good to great. Who have not I gotten along with? The press.
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Knight. My story. Quotes XIII
-People are inclined to believed the written word. So am I, like these from Theodore Roosevelt:
It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
And from Vince Lombardi:
It's a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men... There is something in good men that really years for, needs, discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat. I don't say these things because I believe in the 'brute' nature of man or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious.
I love those images. I've had the privilege of watching kids I've coached do all those things. Now, blend in there the opportunity I had as a coach to point kids toward a college degree and a lifetime of competing fairly, squarely, decently, by the rules, but to win, in whatever career they choose, and you have the reason why not just I but lots of career coaches in both high school and college keep coaching when, as coaches, they have nothing left to prove.
It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
And from Vince Lombardi:
It's a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men... There is something in good men that really years for, needs, discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat. I don't say these things because I believe in the 'brute' nature of man or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious.
I love those images. I've had the privilege of watching kids I've coached do all those things. Now, blend in there the opportunity I had as a coach to point kids toward a college degree and a lifetime of competing fairly, squarely, decently, by the rules, but to win, in whatever career they choose, and you have the reason why not just I but lots of career coaches in both high school and college keep coaching when, as coaches, they have nothing left to prove.
Knight. My story. By Bobby Knight. Quotes XII
-Each one of us told them the same thing: he was doing a great job, under uniquely difficult conditions, in a state that didn't produce many Big Ten football players. I was particularly impressed when he took Colorado to the Orange Bowl and then was fired two years later after telling some big donors where to stick their money when they started suggesting things he could do to compete better with Oklahoma and Nebraska. On Bill Mallory firing.
-Coaching, kind of like the military, has a promotion system and has had it for ever. In coaching, it usually involves moving. You win somewhere, you get an invitation to go to a better job. And if you win some more, you move up again.
-Coaches are hired or fired, promoted or dismissed, based on how many games and championships they have won and, to a great extent, how many tickets were sold.
-They showed a lot more interest in developing that elitist golf course than in improving the salaries of professors, or retaining any of the outstanding professors that they had inherited from past administrations but had lost to other schools in the last five years.
-Never complain, never explain.
-They were an amazingly free-spending group on their own behalf for an outfit that could find only two percent raises for its best professors.
-When you were contacted, we got an immediate response, and a check. I'll never forget that. They couldn't find $1000 for a tribute to a man who had done so much for IU in so many ways as Isiah Thomas had.
-I continued to coach at Indiana for many reasons. A major one was how much I enjoyed the whole process of coaching. And that process starts with the kids involved: what I can do with them in basketball, what I can do to help shape their lives.
-Coaching, kind of like the military, has a promotion system and has had it for ever. In coaching, it usually involves moving. You win somewhere, you get an invitation to go to a better job. And if you win some more, you move up again.
-Coaches are hired or fired, promoted or dismissed, based on how many games and championships they have won and, to a great extent, how many tickets were sold.
-They showed a lot more interest in developing that elitist golf course than in improving the salaries of professors, or retaining any of the outstanding professors that they had inherited from past administrations but had lost to other schools in the last five years.
-Never complain, never explain.
-They were an amazingly free-spending group on their own behalf for an outfit that could find only two percent raises for its best professors.
-When you were contacted, we got an immediate response, and a check. I'll never forget that. They couldn't find $1000 for a tribute to a man who had done so much for IU in so many ways as Isiah Thomas had.
-I continued to coach at Indiana for many reasons. A major one was how much I enjoyed the whole process of coaching. And that process starts with the kids involved: what I can do with them in basketball, what I can do to help shape their lives.
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Knight. My story. By Bobby Knight. Quotes XI
-A lot of times over the years I have walked back to the hotel after a game-day shooting practice and let the team ride the bus back without me. I've always enjoyed walking.
-Of all the coaches I met from foreign countries, Antonio Diaz Miguel and Kondrashin were my favorites.
-I coach basketball. That's no stress. What a brain surgeon or a heart surgeon does everyday is stress.
-The score of the game has never meant a whole lot to me where carelessness was concerned.
-If you decide to go, you are not coming back here.
-We are failing in college basketball if a kid who leaves us at twenty-two is not really well prepared to enter post-basketball life, whether that is after a career in the pros or without one.
-My game is educating kids.
-I've always laughed at people who talk about how complicated the game we teach is. If a kid can play, he can play, and age doesn't really have a lot to do with that.
-Of all the coaches I met from foreign countries, Antonio Diaz Miguel and Kondrashin were my favorites.
-I coach basketball. That's no stress. What a brain surgeon or a heart surgeon does everyday is stress.
-The score of the game has never meant a whole lot to me where carelessness was concerned.
-If you decide to go, you are not coming back here.
-We are failing in college basketball if a kid who leaves us at twenty-two is not really well prepared to enter post-basketball life, whether that is after a career in the pros or without one.
-My game is educating kids.
-I've always laughed at people who talk about how complicated the game we teach is. If a kid can play, he can play, and age doesn't really have a lot to do with that.
Monday, November 13, 2017
Knight. My story. By Bobby Knight. Quotes X
-A Nike official told me one time during negotiations that the only two coaches he was aware of who gave shoe money back to their university were Bear Bryant and I.
-Indiana kids were a priority for me.
-Calbert, Calbert, you are too good to play like this.
-I don't want a point guard and a shooting guard. I want both of them to be able to shoot. In neither of them can shoot, then I want both of them to be tough, big rebounders who can play defense.
-We all have things that we wish we could do over again.
-I've always enjoyed going to movies.
-The George Steinbrenner I know and like a lot above everything else is a damned good man.
-This is the time, 1994 or 1995, when I should have left.
-To win, you have to eliminate the reasons why you lose: sloppy ball handling, poor defensive effort, lack of boxout, poor shot selection, etc.
-Basketball is a game of errors.You try to reduce the number of errors to give your team the best chance to win.
-Indiana kids were a priority for me.
-Calbert, Calbert, you are too good to play like this.
-I don't want a point guard and a shooting guard. I want both of them to be able to shoot. In neither of them can shoot, then I want both of them to be tough, big rebounders who can play defense.
-We all have things that we wish we could do over again.
-I've always enjoyed going to movies.
-The George Steinbrenner I know and like a lot above everything else is a damned good man.
-This is the time, 1994 or 1995, when I should have left.
-To win, you have to eliminate the reasons why you lose: sloppy ball handling, poor defensive effort, lack of boxout, poor shot selection, etc.
-Basketball is a game of errors.You try to reduce the number of errors to give your team the best chance to win.
Friday, November 10, 2017
Knight. My story. By Bob Knight. Quotes IX
-I told him no, I couldn't do that. He said, 'Take it', put it in my hands and headed out to the field. I meant it: I didn't think it was right to do that. So, I put it on a shelf in his locker and went out to watch the game. PETE ROSE'S GLOVE OFFERING TO BOBBY.
-One thing my Dad pounded away at me when I was a kid growing up was 'Never get involved with gambling in any way'. And I never have. I've always been antigambling.
-Last Game, Next Game.
-Controlling the tempo. (Expression)
-Their strength was their defense, not their offense. I felt if we tried to hold the ball, all we were doing was playing into their defensive strength.
-The year before, when things just weren't fitting together for us, I went to a three-guard lineup and we put a pretty good run together.
-He was made to play this game, his size, his abilities, his understanding of the game. (On Edwards).
-Screening was the guts of our offense, the heart of it.
-I experiment every day with what we do offensively, not defensively, but offensively. There's a dynamic to our play offensively as well as defensively that just doesn't exist in most offensive and defensive basketball. We change daily. What we emphasize in our offense in this game may not even be involved in the next game, except in the very basic fundamentals of play.
-I always felt you can beat average, mediocre teams in a lot of ways. You can only beat good teams with good, solid basketball.
-Shoe money. I always used some of it to add to the income of our coaching staff and others, including secretaries in my office and others in the support staff.
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-One thing my Dad pounded away at me when I was a kid growing up was 'Never get involved with gambling in any way'. And I never have. I've always been antigambling.
-Last Game, Next Game.
-Controlling the tempo. (Expression)
-Their strength was their defense, not their offense. I felt if we tried to hold the ball, all we were doing was playing into their defensive strength.
-The year before, when things just weren't fitting together for us, I went to a three-guard lineup and we put a pretty good run together.
-He was made to play this game, his size, his abilities, his understanding of the game. (On Edwards).
-Screening was the guts of our offense, the heart of it.
-I experiment every day with what we do offensively, not defensively, but offensively. There's a dynamic to our play offensively as well as defensively that just doesn't exist in most offensive and defensive basketball. We change daily. What we emphasize in our offense in this game may not even be involved in the next game, except in the very basic fundamentals of play.
-I always felt you can beat average, mediocre teams in a lot of ways. You can only beat good teams with good, solid basketball.
-Shoe money. I always used some of it to add to the income of our coaching staff and others, including secretaries in my office and others in the support staff.
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Knight. My story. By Bob Knight. Quotes VIII
-You and I have sixty one seconds of international basketball left and then we are done with it.
-During a time out at one of our pre-Olympics games with the pros, I asked our players: 'hey, what the hell does Jordan do to you in practice when you have to play him one on one? Somebody tell me what it's like'
One of them said: 'Well, it's hard. It's tough. He tear us up'
Then, I said: 'do you think there is any chance we could see that he gets the ball a little bit tonight, because he is going to do the same thing to these guys that he does to you'.
-There were a lot of times that night when I felt tears welling up and I was genuinely close to letting them go, certainly when our kids were standing up there on the medal stand, wearing their gold medals, while the national anthem played and the American flag went up in their honor.
-The possibility of losing is what makes winning mean something.
-When Steve Raid was at the free-throw line to shoot the technical for Purdue, I wheeled around, picked up a plastic chair, and sent it scooting across the court.
-I made one of my biggest mistakes: I agreed to open our Indiana basketball program, from the start of practice in fall 1985 to our last game, to John Feinstein of the Washington Post, for a book he would write. He had an incredible access to everything. And, with my full knowledge, he got unbelievable help from my assistant coaches, mainly Royce Waltmana and Kohn Smith. Feinstein made a ton of money out of the thing and never once offered to endow a scholarship or do anythingat all for Royce and Kohn, who were putting kids through college on assistant coaches' salaries. He did not owe me a cent. I didn't want anything from him at all, I had made that plain. But when profits came in for him way beyond any possible expectations, he sure as hell could have done something on his own to help those guys.
-I don't think you're ever more sorry or disappointed than when a marriage doesn't work out. My wife, Nancy and I did get a divorce. I blame myself for it far more than her because I spent so much time trying to develop a career in coaching.
-During a time out at one of our pre-Olympics games with the pros, I asked our players: 'hey, what the hell does Jordan do to you in practice when you have to play him one on one? Somebody tell me what it's like'
One of them said: 'Well, it's hard. It's tough. He tear us up'
Then, I said: 'do you think there is any chance we could see that he gets the ball a little bit tonight, because he is going to do the same thing to these guys that he does to you'.
-There were a lot of times that night when I felt tears welling up and I was genuinely close to letting them go, certainly when our kids were standing up there on the medal stand, wearing their gold medals, while the national anthem played and the American flag went up in their honor.
-The possibility of losing is what makes winning mean something.
-When Steve Raid was at the free-throw line to shoot the technical for Purdue, I wheeled around, picked up a plastic chair, and sent it scooting across the court.
-I made one of my biggest mistakes: I agreed to open our Indiana basketball program, from the start of practice in fall 1985 to our last game, to John Feinstein of the Washington Post, for a book he would write. He had an incredible access to everything. And, with my full knowledge, he got unbelievable help from my assistant coaches, mainly Royce Waltmana and Kohn Smith. Feinstein made a ton of money out of the thing and never once offered to endow a scholarship or do anythingat all for Royce and Kohn, who were putting kids through college on assistant coaches' salaries. He did not owe me a cent. I didn't want anything from him at all, I had made that plain. But when profits came in for him way beyond any possible expectations, he sure as hell could have done something on his own to help those guys.
-I don't think you're ever more sorry or disappointed than when a marriage doesn't work out. My wife, Nancy and I did get a divorce. I blame myself for it far more than her because I spent so much time trying to develop a career in coaching.
Sunday, November 5, 2017
Top 10 signs you are a great teammate
10. You're willing to play any role that helps the team
9. You would rather score less and win, than score a lot and lose
8. When your team scores, the first people you congratulate are your teammates
7. You LOVE practice as much as you LOVE games
6. You respect your opponents but don't fear them
5. You listen; you are coachable; you respect your coaches, teammates, officials and opponets.
4. You are quick to pick up a teammate who is having a bad day
3. You help younger teammates who have less experience
2. You learn & grow from your own mistakes, as well as others
1. You're confident but not arrogant.
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Knight. My story. By Bob Knight. Quotes VII
-I don't think any coach in history has saved more time-outs than I have, in the interest of making my team more self-reliant.
-I've always had an ass-to-the-brain theory: when a player's ass gets put on the bench, a message goes straight from the ass to the brain saying: get me off of here.
-I did not want to negotiate and hassle: tell me the highest you can go, and let me make a decision.
-We met every morning and every night to discuss players: who had played well, who hadn't, and who we should look at and keep. (Olympics 84)
-If you don't think you are the best prepared for a basketball game you have ever been, I want you to tell me about it, because we have to do something to make sure that you are.
-I took a picture of his gold medal and I gave each of them a 3x5 and a 8x10 photograph, one for their pockets and another to be put above their beds.
-You are going to be the leader on this team, you are the best player, so I will expect more from you and demand more from you. But I will probably at times get on you when you don't deserve it. I am simply giving everybody else a message.
-Whenever I have had guys who could score, they have scored. And I have wanted the other guys on my teams to understand part of their job was to make that happen.
-There were a lot of times that night when I felt tears welling up and I was genuinely close to letting them go, certainly when our kids were standing up there on he medal stand, wearing their gold medals, while the national anthem played and the American flag went up in their honor.
-The possibility of losing is what makes winning mean something.
-I had gotten tired of wearing a good dress shirt, tie and coat. Who the hell were you fooling? I have worn a golf shirt and a sweater ever since.
-I've always had an ass-to-the-brain theory: when a player's ass gets put on the bench, a message goes straight from the ass to the brain saying: get me off of here.
-I did not want to negotiate and hassle: tell me the highest you can go, and let me make a decision.
-We met every morning and every night to discuss players: who had played well, who hadn't, and who we should look at and keep. (Olympics 84)
-If you don't think you are the best prepared for a basketball game you have ever been, I want you to tell me about it, because we have to do something to make sure that you are.
-I took a picture of his gold medal and I gave each of them a 3x5 and a 8x10 photograph, one for their pockets and another to be put above their beds.
-You are going to be the leader on this team, you are the best player, so I will expect more from you and demand more from you. But I will probably at times get on you when you don't deserve it. I am simply giving everybody else a message.
-Whenever I have had guys who could score, they have scored. And I have wanted the other guys on my teams to understand part of their job was to make that happen.
-There were a lot of times that night when I felt tears welling up and I was genuinely close to letting them go, certainly when our kids were standing up there on he medal stand, wearing their gold medals, while the national anthem played and the American flag went up in their honor.
-The possibility of losing is what makes winning mean something.
-I had gotten tired of wearing a good dress shirt, tie and coat. Who the hell were you fooling? I have worn a golf shirt and a sweater ever since.
Knight. My story. By Bob Knight. Quotes VI
-I have always had people come in and talk to my teams. I wanted them to hear from successful people their thoughts on why they were successful and what it took to be successful.
-Coach, don't officiate.
-Both knew how to play.
-Knowing when to quit is a rarity.
-I never drank. I never took a puff on a cigarette, ever. I am so unalterably opposed to those things that it's hard for me to accept people in athletics smoking, drinking, or using drugs.
-I judge too many situations by what I would do, forgetting that not everybody is going to do what I do, or react the way I'd react, which my wife Karen says is probably a real plus for the whole world.
-I told them if anybody lied to me, he was gone.
-Like all really good teams, they were well put together and very well coached.
-My practices are quiet. That's my classroom, where I do my teaching.
-Coach, don't officiate.
-Both knew how to play.
-Knowing when to quit is a rarity.
-I never drank. I never took a puff on a cigarette, ever. I am so unalterably opposed to those things that it's hard for me to accept people in athletics smoking, drinking, or using drugs.
-I judge too many situations by what I would do, forgetting that not everybody is going to do what I do, or react the way I'd react, which my wife Karen says is probably a real plus for the whole world.
-I told them if anybody lied to me, he was gone.
-Like all really good teams, they were well put together and very well coached.
-My practices are quiet. That's my classroom, where I do my teaching.
Knight. My story. By Bob Knight. Quotes V
-I was always kind of scared: I just wanted my team play well. From a coaching standpoint, the greatest fear I've ever had is that in some way I might not have prepared my team as well as I could have. I am always afraid I have left something out, or overlooked something. If you have done that, you have shortchanged your players. They are not as well prepared as they should be.
-Our bus when we were on the way to a game was always quiet. I wanted it that way, not tense, but quiet, everyone thinking about the game.
-We did not have much of an offensive break. We would run on a steal or if we had real positive numbers on a break: two on one; three on one; three on two.
-I wanted short (no more than 4 meters) outlet passes, unless somebody ahead was wide open. The most important thing in the break it to get there with the ball, and then work to get a good shot.
-We loved playing motion.
-I never held back anything we did when I spoke at clinics.
-They could count as high as the number of passes I wanted before they shot (four).
-I felt we had to play our best shooter at the top of the key.
-The objective was not to win, was not to lose a game. The only way we will lose is when we have ourselves to blame.
-When someone is willing to go a little out of their way, or a lot out of their way to do something for anyone, that is a great mark for that person in my eyes.
-Our bus when we were on the way to a game was always quiet. I wanted it that way, not tense, but quiet, everyone thinking about the game.
-We did not have much of an offensive break. We would run on a steal or if we had real positive numbers on a break: two on one; three on one; three on two.
-I wanted short (no more than 4 meters) outlet passes, unless somebody ahead was wide open. The most important thing in the break it to get there with the ball, and then work to get a good shot.
-We loved playing motion.
-I never held back anything we did when I spoke at clinics.
-They could count as high as the number of passes I wanted before they shot (four).
-I felt we had to play our best shooter at the top of the key.
-The objective was not to win, was not to lose a game. The only way we will lose is when we have ourselves to blame.
-When someone is willing to go a little out of their way, or a lot out of their way to do something for anyone, that is a great mark for that person in my eyes.
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Knight. My story. By Bob Knight. Quotes IV
-Of all the great things my mom did for me, nothing was better than making me be a reader.
-You don't have to score to be a good basketball player.
-Let the bench guys play whenever you can.
-I have changed starting lineups maybe more than any coach in basketball usually as a reward for a kid for what he did in practice or for his play in a game.
-How gracious great veteran coaches could be.
-I don't want to take anything away from the other team's accomplishment, and I don't want our team grasping at excuses.
-A lot of coaches know X's and O's but don't see things well.
-The first thing you have to have in coaching or anything else is a confidence in your ability to do the job.
-I felt that utilizing deception and being unpredictable, unrecognizable, and difficult to scout were instrumental in offensive success. I have always wanted the cutter to have options. So if the defense does one thing, the cutter can do another thing. It is not something that just goes one, two, three, four. In basketball, if you run a set play, a smart defense doesn't have to react to what you are doing, they can do something prior to your move, because they know the movement as well as the offense does.
-Princeton played with keys: if the passer went inside, that was one thing; if he cut to the bucket, it was another thing. I tried to incorporate that in Indiana but almost exclusively on reading the defense and the position of the ball.
-Spacing is one of the two keys to utilization of the court in offensive play. The second is floor balance, keeping players in positions that maintain an ability to attack both sides of the floor.
-We spent a lot of October practicing four on four and five on five without allowing a dribble.
-The only obligation you have to your players is that they know your are starting the best lineup you have.
-You don't have to score to be a good basketball player.
-Let the bench guys play whenever you can.
-I have changed starting lineups maybe more than any coach in basketball usually as a reward for a kid for what he did in practice or for his play in a game.
-How gracious great veteran coaches could be.
-I don't want to take anything away from the other team's accomplishment, and I don't want our team grasping at excuses.
-A lot of coaches know X's and O's but don't see things well.
-The first thing you have to have in coaching or anything else is a confidence in your ability to do the job.
-I felt that utilizing deception and being unpredictable, unrecognizable, and difficult to scout were instrumental in offensive success. I have always wanted the cutter to have options. So if the defense does one thing, the cutter can do another thing. It is not something that just goes one, two, three, four. In basketball, if you run a set play, a smart defense doesn't have to react to what you are doing, they can do something prior to your move, because they know the movement as well as the offense does.
-Princeton played with keys: if the passer went inside, that was one thing; if he cut to the bucket, it was another thing. I tried to incorporate that in Indiana but almost exclusively on reading the defense and the position of the ball.
-Spacing is one of the two keys to utilization of the court in offensive play. The second is floor balance, keeping players in positions that maintain an ability to attack both sides of the floor.
-We spent a lot of October practicing four on four and five on five without allowing a dribble.
-The only obligation you have to your players is that they know your are starting the best lineup you have.
Knight. My story. By Bob Knight. Quotes III
-Our defensive rules are based on each player's knowing where the ball is and trying to keep it from going where we don't want it to go.
-A combination of the two types of defense man to man and zone, within the same possession could be very good.
-When we are playing against a really good shooter, we don't help from him at all. (The player who is with him, doesn't go to help anybody else)
-The team preparation facet of coaching is based on figuring out two basic things: how to stop somebody and how could we score on that opponent. It's a matter of having a sound fundamental base. On offense, your players don't take bad shots. They don't throw the ball away. They move without the ball. They help each other get open. On defense, your teams don't give up easy points on conversion, on fast breaks. They don't commit bad fouls and they have to control the lane, and know where the ball is at all times.
-The mental is to the physical as four is to one. And one thing more almost supersedes everything else: enthusiasm.
-Offensively, if it is a pressuring man to man we have to take the ball to the bucket: catch the ball, face, fake and drive. Do that, do it well, and you will be on the foul line. Almost invariably.
-My job is to get us to play as well as we can as often as we can. More than anything else, that's what I have to do and it will have a direct carry over to whatever each kid winds up doing in life.
-It is much better to make things happen than wait for things to happen.
-If you are going to accept pay for something, do it right.
-If you can't pay for it, do without until you can. The only time my dad ever owed a cent was when he took a twenty years mortgage. He gave up everything he liked to do and paid off the mortgage in over four years. He is the most honest man I have ever known.
-A combination of the two types of defense man to man and zone, within the same possession could be very good.
-When we are playing against a really good shooter, we don't help from him at all. (The player who is with him, doesn't go to help anybody else)
-The team preparation facet of coaching is based on figuring out two basic things: how to stop somebody and how could we score on that opponent. It's a matter of having a sound fundamental base. On offense, your players don't take bad shots. They don't throw the ball away. They move without the ball. They help each other get open. On defense, your teams don't give up easy points on conversion, on fast breaks. They don't commit bad fouls and they have to control the lane, and know where the ball is at all times.
-The mental is to the physical as four is to one. And one thing more almost supersedes everything else: enthusiasm.
-Offensively, if it is a pressuring man to man we have to take the ball to the bucket: catch the ball, face, fake and drive. Do that, do it well, and you will be on the foul line. Almost invariably.
-My job is to get us to play as well as we can as often as we can. More than anything else, that's what I have to do and it will have a direct carry over to whatever each kid winds up doing in life.
-It is much better to make things happen than wait for things to happen.
-If you are going to accept pay for something, do it right.
-If you can't pay for it, do without until you can. The only time my dad ever owed a cent was when he took a twenty years mortgage. He gave up everything he liked to do and paid off the mortgage in over four years. He is the most honest man I have ever known.
Knight. My story. By Bob Knight. Quotes II
-Get your players understand not just that something works, but why.
-I have to understand the strengths and the weaknesses of every player who plays for me.
-Play to your strengths and away from your weaknesses.
-Great players maximize their talent and make everybody around them better. It is no accident that they do this. They understand the game, and they understand the strengths and weaknesses of their teammates and their opponent. That comes from thinking. There is nothing more important that a basketball player can do. Above else, think.
-Think about those things that you don't like to play against. Then, do them yourself at both ends of the floor.
-I use the word 'understand' often. I want my players to understand why teams lose: poor shot selection, bad passing, failure to block out defensively, lack of pressure on the ball.
-To me, concentration is basketball in a nutshell. Concentration leads to anticipation, which leads to recognition, which leads to reaction, which leads to execution.
-I am a great believer in understanding what goes into losing, because if we know how we can lose, if we know those factors or reasons that cause us to lose, and we eliminate those things, we stand a much better chance of winning.
-We play our game with our own additional rules, my rules on how I want the game played.
-I have to understand the strengths and the weaknesses of every player who plays for me.
-Play to your strengths and away from your weaknesses.
-Great players maximize their talent and make everybody around them better. It is no accident that they do this. They understand the game, and they understand the strengths and weaknesses of their teammates and their opponent. That comes from thinking. There is nothing more important that a basketball player can do. Above else, think.
-Think about those things that you don't like to play against. Then, do them yourself at both ends of the floor.
-I use the word 'understand' often. I want my players to understand why teams lose: poor shot selection, bad passing, failure to block out defensively, lack of pressure on the ball.
-To me, concentration is basketball in a nutshell. Concentration leads to anticipation, which leads to recognition, which leads to reaction, which leads to execution.
-I am a great believer in understanding what goes into losing, because if we know how we can lose, if we know those factors or reasons that cause us to lose, and we eliminate those things, we stand a much better chance of winning.
-We play our game with our own additional rules, my rules on how I want the game played.
Knight. My story. By Bob Knight. Quotes
-I was told by Brand in May that I could stay on as a coach under what the president called 'zero tolerance'. Obviously, I should have quit right there.
-But quitting is a hard thing for me to do, and it became all the harder because I let myself get soft. I was just too comfortable in the life I had created for myself in a town that had been special to me.
-My thoughts on coaching came from my own studying and experimenting, and from discussions with coaches and phone calls I made over the years in search of answers and ideas about basketball.
-The first time I really got to know Coach Lapchick was a significant moment in my coaching career. I asked him if I could sit down and talk with him sometime. He game me his home address, which I have never forgotten: 3 Wendover Lane in Yorkers.
-My cornerstones:
1. If you worry whether people like you or not, you can never make tough decisions correctly.
2. The very first thing you had to be was a teacher, and you had to teach kids how to play basketball.
3. Make sure your best players are in their absolute best roles. Then use supplementary players in just that, supplementary roles.
4. An appreciation of basketball of something never to be mastered but always, every day of every year, to be studied with an unflagging zeal for answers and a duty to pass them on.
5. An unyielding, untiring passion for teaching kids to understand the game of basketball and carry this understanding and sense of commitment into all walks of life.
-Playing smart is a function of positioning, of placement, of recognition.
-But quitting is a hard thing for me to do, and it became all the harder because I let myself get soft. I was just too comfortable in the life I had created for myself in a town that had been special to me.
-My thoughts on coaching came from my own studying and experimenting, and from discussions with coaches and phone calls I made over the years in search of answers and ideas about basketball.
-The first time I really got to know Coach Lapchick was a significant moment in my coaching career. I asked him if I could sit down and talk with him sometime. He game me his home address, which I have never forgotten: 3 Wendover Lane in Yorkers.
-My cornerstones:
1. If you worry whether people like you or not, you can never make tough decisions correctly.
2. The very first thing you had to be was a teacher, and you had to teach kids how to play basketball.
3. Make sure your best players are in their absolute best roles. Then use supplementary players in just that, supplementary roles.
4. An appreciation of basketball of something never to be mastered but always, every day of every year, to be studied with an unflagging zeal for answers and a duty to pass them on.
5. An unyielding, untiring passion for teaching kids to understand the game of basketball and carry this understanding and sense of commitment into all walks of life.
-Playing smart is a function of positioning, of placement, of recognition.
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
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