-If you why is strong enough and clear enough, you can figure out most of the how for yourself.
-Sound judgment is the power of discernment.
-We have good judgment when we have the power to weigh people's motivations, values and priorities in life.
-Someone who is both shrewd and good-willed has the essence of wisdom.
-Sound judgement is the ability to foresee the probable consequences, both good and bad, of a projected course of action.
-The Greeks called responsibility justice, or giving others what is due to them.
-Responsibility means so as to respect the rights of others, included their right not to be offended.
-Responsibility is a habit of doing our duties whether we feel like it or not.
-Fortitude is also known by other words: courage, perseverance, toughness, guts.
-Fortitude is the acquired ability either to overcome or to endure difficulties: pain, discomfort, disappointment, setbacks, worry, tedium, looking different.
-Life brings hardships, and many of these and unavoidable, even insoluble.
-Most of the time, expectations hurts more than reality: that is, anticipated problems nearly always seem worse than they turn out to be once we tackle them.
-Fortitude is a confidence in our problem-solving abilities, built through a lifetime of practice in solving problems.
-There is such a thing as good stress: when we are under reasonable stress and adversity, we all do our best work.
-The power of fortitude is the exact opposite of getting in touch with our feelings, a woefully common outlook today in too many schools and families.
-In real life, self-centered feelings must give way to duty; if they do not, the young people have practically no capacity for sacrifice, which is the absolute essence of real love. Genuine love means ignoring our self-centered feelings for the sake of others.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Compass, a handbook on parents leadership by James Stenson. Quotes IV
-As a parent you make sacrificial effort every day, for years, to turn your children's daily habits into lifelong virtues. You lead your children to become responsible, you teach them justice, fortitude, -courage is the memory of past successes-, you teach them healthy, realistic self-esteem from work well done, you teach them an all important lesson about life: comfort and convenience are only by-products of a successful life, not its purpose.
-We are here to serve others with our powers.
-As a parent you never give up until your children have acquired the powers to live rightly on their own.
-Verbal explanation works mostly to form children's judgment and conscience.
-You explain the importance of work well done and the disgrace of being a slacker or quitter.
-You rely on talk only to reinforce and explain action, to help the children grasp why you live the way you do, and why you press them the way you do.
-The two most troubled stages of children's lives: at ages two to five, and again at thirteen to seventeen.
-Practice builds habits, while explanations build judgment, conscience, attitudes, values.
-For most people, the voice of conscience is the voice of their parents, the memory of their parents' lessons about right and wrong.
-Above all you should listen to your children: their progress in judgment and conscience, their worries and self-doubts, their problems.
-Adolescents who deeply love and respect their parents remain virtually immune to perilous peer-pressures and untouched by the rock-sex-drug culture. Their parent's character is the measure by which they judge their peers.
-When you chat with your children, be sure you listen with your eyes. Children are extremely sensitive to what they see in their parent's eyes. Make eye-contact with them to show your undivided attention: that's how important they are to you. When they look into your eyes, let them see your heartfelt love for them, your hopes for their future, your pride in their growing character.
-We are here to serve others with our powers.
-As a parent you never give up until your children have acquired the powers to live rightly on their own.
-Verbal explanation works mostly to form children's judgment and conscience.
-You explain the importance of work well done and the disgrace of being a slacker or quitter.
-You rely on talk only to reinforce and explain action, to help the children grasp why you live the way you do, and why you press them the way you do.
-The two most troubled stages of children's lives: at ages two to five, and again at thirteen to seventeen.
-Practice builds habits, while explanations build judgment, conscience, attitudes, values.
-For most people, the voice of conscience is the voice of their parents, the memory of their parents' lessons about right and wrong.
-Above all you should listen to your children: their progress in judgment and conscience, their worries and self-doubts, their problems.
-Adolescents who deeply love and respect their parents remain virtually immune to perilous peer-pressures and untouched by the rock-sex-drug culture. Their parent's character is the measure by which they judge their peers.
-When you chat with your children, be sure you listen with your eyes. Children are extremely sensitive to what they see in their parent's eyes. Make eye-contact with them to show your undivided attention: that's how important they are to you. When they look into your eyes, let them see your heartfelt love for them, your hopes for their future, your pride in their growing character.
Compass, a handbook on parents leadership by James Stenson. Quotes III
-Your children see everything. They miss nothing. Their eager eyes, their lithe little bodies, constantly flit around, roving and scanning, noticing every details of their parents' lives. Children, it seems, are wired this way: to watch how adults, and most of all their parents, go about the business of living.
-Children perceive confident, adult-level strength in you, and this awareness leads them to respect you. Children must, above all, respect their parents, and (we cannot stress this enough) all respect derives from perception of strength.
-You are teaching more about the virtues, indeed about yourself, when you scarcely realize it. Your snatches of conversation, your reactions to events (good and bad), your assessments of people and your dealings with them, your earnest personal prayer, your exertion in work and play, your comments on the news, your humor, whatever angers or delights you, even the look in your eyes: all these details sink into your children's minds and hearts. In fact, what your children overhear at home is at least as important as what you say to them directly, often much more so.
-Parents cannot teach character effectively unless they first set example for their children.
-Virtue is a habit of living rightly. And all habits are built by repeated practice. You, as a parent, must lead your children to act, to learn by doing.
-Every single day, the children are forming permanent habits. The question for parents is: which ones?
-Children perceive confident, adult-level strength in you, and this awareness leads them to respect you. Children must, above all, respect their parents, and (we cannot stress this enough) all respect derives from perception of strength.
-You are teaching more about the virtues, indeed about yourself, when you scarcely realize it. Your snatches of conversation, your reactions to events (good and bad), your assessments of people and your dealings with them, your earnest personal prayer, your exertion in work and play, your comments on the news, your humor, whatever angers or delights you, even the look in your eyes: all these details sink into your children's minds and hearts. In fact, what your children overhear at home is at least as important as what you say to them directly, often much more so.
-Parents cannot teach character effectively unless they first set example for their children.
-Virtue is a habit of living rightly. And all habits are built by repeated practice. You, as a parent, must lead your children to act, to learn by doing.
-Every single day, the children are forming permanent habits. The question for parents is: which ones?
Sunday, March 10, 2019
Compass, a handbook on parents leadership by James Stenson. Quotes II
-A couple of ideas crucial to your job as a parent:
1. Children do not come into the world imbued with these virtues. They do not start out in life with sound judgment, responsibility, courageous perseverance, or self-mastery. These powers must be built from scratch as children grow up, formed as it were from the outside in, or else the children will grow up without them.
2. Your job as a parent is to make sure your children do not grow up this way: as thoughtless, self-centered, impulsive, irresponsible hedonists and manipulators. Your job is to teach your children habitual lifelong powers of sound judgment, responsibility, courageous perseverance, self-control, and heart. This is the core responsibility of parenthood.
-Your children will not grow up when the can take care of themselves. They will really and truly grow up only when they can take care of others, and want to.
-Characteristics of character: excellent judgment, wisdom, a refined sense of right and wrong, ethical uprightness, courage, thoughtful concern for others' needs and feelings, putting people ahead of things.
-Children seem to acquire character in three ways and in this order:
1. By example. What children witness, and then imitate, in the lives of their parents and other adults whom they respect (teachers, coaches)
2. By directed practice. What children are led to do, or are made to do repeatedly by parents and other respected adults.
3. By word. What children hear from parents and others as explanation of what they witness and are led to do.
1. Children do not come into the world imbued with these virtues. They do not start out in life with sound judgment, responsibility, courageous perseverance, or self-mastery. These powers must be built from scratch as children grow up, formed as it were from the outside in, or else the children will grow up without them.
2. Your job as a parent is to make sure your children do not grow up this way: as thoughtless, self-centered, impulsive, irresponsible hedonists and manipulators. Your job is to teach your children habitual lifelong powers of sound judgment, responsibility, courageous perseverance, self-control, and heart. This is the core responsibility of parenthood.
-Your children will not grow up when the can take care of themselves. They will really and truly grow up only when they can take care of others, and want to.
-Characteristics of character: excellent judgment, wisdom, a refined sense of right and wrong, ethical uprightness, courage, thoughtful concern for others' needs and feelings, putting people ahead of things.
-Children seem to acquire character in three ways and in this order:
1. By example. What children witness, and then imitate, in the lives of their parents and other adults whom they respect (teachers, coaches)
2. By directed practice. What children are led to do, or are made to do repeatedly by parents and other respected adults.
3. By word. What children hear from parents and others as explanation of what they witness and are led to do.
Compass, a handbook on parents leadership by James Stenson. Quotes
-Parents really win success with their children only in the long term. Parents succeed with their children when the kids grow up to become competent, responsible, considerate, and generous men and women who are committed to live by principles of integrity, adults who bring honor to their parents all their lives through their conduct, conscience, and character. Raising children like this is what parenthood is all about.
-When parent bring children into the world, they set out on the greatest, most satisfying adventure of all.
-Clear thought is necessary for any leadership.
-Knowing where you are going helps you know what you are doing, and this builds the courage you need to stick with your mission, no matter what.
-Parents must teach their children the invisible. Conscientious and savvy parents lead their children to know, and live by, those internal, invisible realities that form a great life: honor, integrity, self-mastery, courage, courtesy, dedicated service, sacrificial love, conscience, God, grace, the soul. Great men and women, it seems at moved mostly by what's invisible.
-Before we delve into details of how this is done, we must first stand back and look at the big picture, the why. So we begin by looking at character.
-Character is what each of us is, minus our money and possessions.
-Character is what people admire in us besides our talents and acquired skills.
-Character is what makes people proud and delighted to count us as friends, not just acquaintances. It is what makes friendships last a lifetime.
-Character is an integration of what the greatest minds of antiquity used to called virtues, those powers of mind and will and heart built up through repeated practice:
Prudence
Justice
Fortitude
Temperance
Character to them, is the sum total of these habitual powers joined together in one's personality.
-In more modern day, commonsensical terms:
Prudence: is sound judgment and conscience.
Justice: is a sense of responsibility and fair play.
Fortitude: is courage, persistence, guts.
Temperance: is self-mastery, self-discipline, self-control.
-To this four classical concepts of virtue, we add the other, the heart. This is generosity, magnanimity, charity, a capacity for compassionate understanding and forgiveness.
-When parent bring children into the world, they set out on the greatest, most satisfying adventure of all.
-Clear thought is necessary for any leadership.
-Knowing where you are going helps you know what you are doing, and this builds the courage you need to stick with your mission, no matter what.
-Parents must teach their children the invisible. Conscientious and savvy parents lead their children to know, and live by, those internal, invisible realities that form a great life: honor, integrity, self-mastery, courage, courtesy, dedicated service, sacrificial love, conscience, God, grace, the soul. Great men and women, it seems at moved mostly by what's invisible.
-Before we delve into details of how this is done, we must first stand back and look at the big picture, the why. So we begin by looking at character.
-Character is what each of us is, minus our money and possessions.
-Character is what people admire in us besides our talents and acquired skills.
-Character is what makes people proud and delighted to count us as friends, not just acquaintances. It is what makes friendships last a lifetime.
-Character is an integration of what the greatest minds of antiquity used to called virtues, those powers of mind and will and heart built up through repeated practice:
Prudence
Justice
Fortitude
Temperance
Character to them, is the sum total of these habitual powers joined together in one's personality.
-In more modern day, commonsensical terms:
Prudence: is sound judgment and conscience.
Justice: is a sense of responsibility and fair play.
Fortitude: is courage, persistence, guts.
Temperance: is self-mastery, self-discipline, self-control.
-To this four classical concepts of virtue, we add the other, the heart. This is generosity, magnanimity, charity, a capacity for compassionate understanding and forgiveness.
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Do as I Say not as I do by Peter Schweizer. Quotes II
-The Clintons appear to have repeatedly overstated their charitable contributions.
-The Clintons believe in using the tax code to transfer wealth from the rich to the poor; it's just that they don't have their own wealth in mind.
-In the Clintons' moral universe, their own motives and intentions are always pure. Their adversaries, on the other hand, are animated by selfishness and greed, a conservative disease to which they claim to be immune. Through all the contradictions in their lives, and despite their voluminous reflections on themselves, they seem utterly clueless about their own greed and avarice, all the while continuing to offer unsought advise about how other people can live up to their exalted moral standards.
-On a personal level, Nader may be the spartan moralist he claims to be, avoiding the lavish lifestyles of comrades in arms like Michael Moore. But in the end, he puts his faith in corporations and behaves like a traditional sweatshop boss. Co-ops and unions are great; but when you are trying to create a revolution, you are better off investing in corporations and working your employees to the bone.
-Far from acting in accordance with her professed principles, Pelosi in fact epitomizes the very attitudes and practices she claims to detest.
-Offshore businesses that avoid taxation are a Soros specialty.
-The Hollywood grapevine is filled with stories about how Barbra S. can be to those who work for her. "She was generous in terms of large amounts, he said, but absolutely mean and niggardly about the salaries of the working people she hired".
-While Steinem was writing those words, encouraging young woman to turn their backs on long-term relationships with men, she herself was engaged in a longtime relationship with television writer, producer and musician Blair Chotzinoff.
-Publicly Cornel West criticized middle class blacks for their greed and materialism. Privately, this socialist paragon revealed his true colors when he bought homes in two of Boston's best neighborhoods.
-The Clintons believe in using the tax code to transfer wealth from the rich to the poor; it's just that they don't have their own wealth in mind.
-In the Clintons' moral universe, their own motives and intentions are always pure. Their adversaries, on the other hand, are animated by selfishness and greed, a conservative disease to which they claim to be immune. Through all the contradictions in their lives, and despite their voluminous reflections on themselves, they seem utterly clueless about their own greed and avarice, all the while continuing to offer unsought advise about how other people can live up to their exalted moral standards.
-On a personal level, Nader may be the spartan moralist he claims to be, avoiding the lavish lifestyles of comrades in arms like Michael Moore. But in the end, he puts his faith in corporations and behaves like a traditional sweatshop boss. Co-ops and unions are great; but when you are trying to create a revolution, you are better off investing in corporations and working your employees to the bone.
-Far from acting in accordance with her professed principles, Pelosi in fact epitomizes the very attitudes and practices she claims to detest.
-Offshore businesses that avoid taxation are a Soros specialty.
-The Hollywood grapevine is filled with stories about how Barbra S. can be to those who work for her. "She was generous in terms of large amounts, he said, but absolutely mean and niggardly about the salaries of the working people she hired".
-While Steinem was writing those words, encouraging young woman to turn their backs on long-term relationships with men, she herself was engaged in a longtime relationship with television writer, producer and musician Blair Chotzinoff.
-Publicly Cornel West criticized middle class blacks for their greed and materialism. Privately, this socialist paragon revealed his true colors when he bought homes in two of Boston's best neighborhoods.
Monday, February 25, 2019
Do as I Say not as I do by Peter Schweizer. Quotes.
-Hypocrisy has proved to be a wonderful weapon for liberals in their war against conservatives.
-When Chomsky appears on college campuses, he usually dresses in a rumpled shirt and jacket. He is identified with dozens of left-wing causes and professes to speak for the poor, the oppressed, and the victims of capitalism. But Chomsky is himself a shrewd capitalist, worth millions, with money in the dreaded and evil stock market, and at least one tax haven to cut down on those pesky inheritance taxes that he says are so important.
-Publicly, Michael Moore is a populist crusader who stands up to profit-minded corporations on behalf of workers, women, minorities, and the environment. Privately, he is the consummate capitalist single-mindedly focused on money.
-Franken was simply doing what he had always done, putting people down and making fun of them, whether they were breast cancer survivors, drug addicts, homosexuals, or conservative talk show hosts.
-Ted Kennedy's actions match his words? A closer look at his conduct in private life reveals that this champion of liberal causes is really the king of liberal hypocrites.
-When Chomsky appears on college campuses, he usually dresses in a rumpled shirt and jacket. He is identified with dozens of left-wing causes and professes to speak for the poor, the oppressed, and the victims of capitalism. But Chomsky is himself a shrewd capitalist, worth millions, with money in the dreaded and evil stock market, and at least one tax haven to cut down on those pesky inheritance taxes that he says are so important.
-Publicly, Michael Moore is a populist crusader who stands up to profit-minded corporations on behalf of workers, women, minorities, and the environment. Privately, he is the consummate capitalist single-mindedly focused on money.
-Franken was simply doing what he had always done, putting people down and making fun of them, whether they were breast cancer survivors, drug addicts, homosexuals, or conservative talk show hosts.
-Ted Kennedy's actions match his words? A closer look at his conduct in private life reveals that this champion of liberal causes is really the king of liberal hypocrites.
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Simon Sinek. How to make your life a success. On humility and working as a team
"The biggest lesson I learned, -because I was the boss- is I thought I had to know all the answers and if I didn't I thought I had to pretend I did. And that's stupid.
And what I learned is that just because I may have the top position in the hierarchy, I am not expected to know everything and if I pretend to know everything it diminishes the value of all the great ideas and the great intelligence around me.
And when things got difficult I would never admit it. I would just put on a brave face and show up.
And the biggest lesson I learned was to say I don't know, I don't understand or I need help at any level, about any subject and... amazingly I was always surrounded by people who wanted to help and who knew answers but they never offered to help or offered the answers because they didn't think I needed it because I kept pretending that I knew it all, right? Not to mention the fact that nobody likes a know-it-all...
So that was huge for me and when I was willing to ask for help and accept it when it was offered and sort of accept the humility of the fact that other people know a lot of more about a lot of things than I know... I know one thing... and they know lots of things... that's when things really started to move because we were now a team, that we were actually working together".
And what I learned is that just because I may have the top position in the hierarchy, I am not expected to know everything and if I pretend to know everything it diminishes the value of all the great ideas and the great intelligence around me.
And when things got difficult I would never admit it. I would just put on a brave face and show up.
And the biggest lesson I learned was to say I don't know, I don't understand or I need help at any level, about any subject and... amazingly I was always surrounded by people who wanted to help and who knew answers but they never offered to help or offered the answers because they didn't think I needed it because I kept pretending that I knew it all, right? Not to mention the fact that nobody likes a know-it-all...
So that was huge for me and when I was willing to ask for help and accept it when it was offered and sort of accept the humility of the fact that other people know a lot of more about a lot of things than I know... I know one thing... and they know lots of things... that's when things really started to move because we were now a team, that we were actually working together".
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Destiny of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes XVI
-Our soul energy was created by a higher authority than we can know in our present state of development.
-Essentially, we are alone with our soul, yet people who feel lonely haven't quite found themselves.
-Based on my practice, I am convinced that everyone on this planet has a personal spiritual guide.
-There are not accidents in life.
-Spiritual insight comes to us in quiet, introspective, subtle moments which are manifested by the power of a single thought.
-'Coming to Earth is about traveling away from our home to a foreign land. Some things seem familiar but most are strange until we get used to them, especially conditions which are unforgiving. Our real home is a place of absolute peace, total acceptance and complete love. As souls separated from our home we can no longer assume these beautiful features will be present around us. On Earth we must learn to cope with intolerance, anger and sadness while searching for joy and love. We must not lose our integrity along the way, sacrificing goodness for survival and acquiring attitudes either superior or inferior to those around us. We know that living in an imperfect world will help us to appreciate the true meaning of perfection. We ask for courage and humility before our journey into another life. As we grow in awareness so will the quality of our existence. This is how we are tested. Passing this test is our destiny.
-Essentially, we are alone with our soul, yet people who feel lonely haven't quite found themselves.
-Based on my practice, I am convinced that everyone on this planet has a personal spiritual guide.
-There are not accidents in life.
-Spiritual insight comes to us in quiet, introspective, subtle moments which are manifested by the power of a single thought.
-'Coming to Earth is about traveling away from our home to a foreign land. Some things seem familiar but most are strange until we get used to them, especially conditions which are unforgiving. Our real home is a place of absolute peace, total acceptance and complete love. As souls separated from our home we can no longer assume these beautiful features will be present around us. On Earth we must learn to cope with intolerance, anger and sadness while searching for joy and love. We must not lose our integrity along the way, sacrificing goodness for survival and acquiring attitudes either superior or inferior to those around us. We know that living in an imperfect world will help us to appreciate the true meaning of perfection. We ask for courage and humility before our journey into another life. As we grow in awareness so will the quality of our existence. This is how we are tested. Passing this test is our destiny.
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Destiny of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes XV
-The Ring displays futuristic scenes of events and people the soul will encounter in the life to come.
-The whole spiritual structure of the screening room is designed to give the viewer an ability either to observe or participate in the action, just in libraries.
-'It is made clear to me that the body choice is mine alone because I am going to have to live with it'
-Karma does not only pertain to our deeds, it is internal as well, reflecting our thoughts, feelings and impulses, all relating to cause and effect. Karma is more than taking proper actions toward others, it is also having the intention to do so.
-Fate does not decree that a certain situation has to come out a particular way. We are not puppets on a string. In our universe, when the past is over, these events and the people involved with them become eternal and are forever preserved in spiritual libraries.
-I do not believe future alternatives are unlimited in number.
-'There have been many people in my life who have treated me with disgust and even loathing. I needed to experience this discrimination, to feel unsafe and vulnerable.
-Destiny represents the sum of our deeds over thousands of years in a multitude of incarnations. In all these lives we had freedom of choice. Our current life represents all past experiences both pleasant and unpleasant, and so we are the product of all our former choices.
-We occupy a particular body for many reasons.
-Earth is considered by souls to be a very difficult school. The great lesson of Earth is to overcome both planetary and private destructive forces in life, grow strong from the effort, and move on.
-Fear arises when we separate ourselves from our spiritual power.
-We knew many of the challenges in advance of our life and chose them for good reasons. Accidents involving our bodies are not considered to be accidental by the soul. The sheer will of our true Self has the power to rise in opposition to our weakness in character, especially during adversity.
-More important than the events that test us in life is our reaction to these events and how we handle the consequences.
-Uncertainty in life is frequently an outgrowth of former life patterns and obsessions.
-Change is a hallmark of karma through the use of free will in making course corrections into unfamiliar waters. Searching for who you really are is getting in touch with your inner Self and bringing passion and meaning into what you do in life.
-I have never had a single case where a soul joined the fetus in the first trimester. The reason why is quite simple because there is not enough brain tissue for them to work with at this stage.
-Various scenarios of significant events in our life are known in advance when we choose certain bodies in the Ring. All have karmic implications and purpose for us.
-Although the physical organism of the body will die, the soul who occupy that body never forgets the host which allowed them to experience Earth in a particular time and place.
-Physiologists do not know why intense emotion may cause irrational behavior in one person and logical coping actions in another. For me, the answer lies in the soul.
-In general, how do you feel about coming back to Earth in life after life?
-As a gift. This is such a multifaceted planet. Sure, this place brings heartache, but it is delightful toot and incredibly beautiful. The human body is a marvel of form and structure. I never cease to be awed by each new body, the many different ways I can express myself in them, especially in the most important way, love.
-Righteousness, honesty, humor and love are the primary foundations of our life after life.
-The sacred truths of our etheric history can be recovered today because we are able to circumvent the conscious mind and reach the unconscious, which was not immersed in the River of Forgetfulness.
-What we face in the twenty-fist century is the eroding of individualism and human dignity in an overcrowded society dominated by materialism.
-Amnesiac blocks were set in place with human beings to prevent preconditioned responses to certain karmic events. However, the benefits of amnesia may not longer outweigh the drawbacks of lives existing within a vacuum of chemically-induced apathy. There are too many people trying to escape from reality because they do not see their identity as having purpose or meaning. Drugs and alcohol aside, in overcrowded, high tech societies around the world, people have an emptiness of spirit because they are ruled by their body ego senses. They have little or no connection to their real Self.
-When we totally align ourselves to belief systems based upon the experience of other people, I feel we lose something of our individuality in the process. The road to self-discovery and shaping a personal philosophy not designed by the doctrines of organizations takes efforts but the rewards are great.
-In the search for our own path of spirituality it is wise to ask: What sort of behavioral code do I believe in?
-You were not given your body by a chance of nature. It was selected for you by spiritual advisors and after previewing their offerings of other host bodies, you agreed to accept the body you now have. Thus, you are not a victim of circumstance. You are entrusted with your body to be an active participant in life, not a bystander. We must not lose sight of the idea that we accepted this sacred contract of life and this means the roles we play on Earth are actually greater than ourselves.
-The whole spiritual structure of the screening room is designed to give the viewer an ability either to observe or participate in the action, just in libraries.
-'It is made clear to me that the body choice is mine alone because I am going to have to live with it'
-Karma does not only pertain to our deeds, it is internal as well, reflecting our thoughts, feelings and impulses, all relating to cause and effect. Karma is more than taking proper actions toward others, it is also having the intention to do so.
-Fate does not decree that a certain situation has to come out a particular way. We are not puppets on a string. In our universe, when the past is over, these events and the people involved with them become eternal and are forever preserved in spiritual libraries.
-I do not believe future alternatives are unlimited in number.
-'There have been many people in my life who have treated me with disgust and even loathing. I needed to experience this discrimination, to feel unsafe and vulnerable.
-Destiny represents the sum of our deeds over thousands of years in a multitude of incarnations. In all these lives we had freedom of choice. Our current life represents all past experiences both pleasant and unpleasant, and so we are the product of all our former choices.
-We occupy a particular body for many reasons.
-Earth is considered by souls to be a very difficult school. The great lesson of Earth is to overcome both planetary and private destructive forces in life, grow strong from the effort, and move on.
-Fear arises when we separate ourselves from our spiritual power.
-We knew many of the challenges in advance of our life and chose them for good reasons. Accidents involving our bodies are not considered to be accidental by the soul. The sheer will of our true Self has the power to rise in opposition to our weakness in character, especially during adversity.
-More important than the events that test us in life is our reaction to these events and how we handle the consequences.
-Uncertainty in life is frequently an outgrowth of former life patterns and obsessions.
-Change is a hallmark of karma through the use of free will in making course corrections into unfamiliar waters. Searching for who you really are is getting in touch with your inner Self and bringing passion and meaning into what you do in life.
-I have never had a single case where a soul joined the fetus in the first trimester. The reason why is quite simple because there is not enough brain tissue for them to work with at this stage.
-Various scenarios of significant events in our life are known in advance when we choose certain bodies in the Ring. All have karmic implications and purpose for us.
-Although the physical organism of the body will die, the soul who occupy that body never forgets the host which allowed them to experience Earth in a particular time and place.
-Physiologists do not know why intense emotion may cause irrational behavior in one person and logical coping actions in another. For me, the answer lies in the soul.
-In general, how do you feel about coming back to Earth in life after life?
-As a gift. This is such a multifaceted planet. Sure, this place brings heartache, but it is delightful toot and incredibly beautiful. The human body is a marvel of form and structure. I never cease to be awed by each new body, the many different ways I can express myself in them, especially in the most important way, love.
-Righteousness, honesty, humor and love are the primary foundations of our life after life.
-The sacred truths of our etheric history can be recovered today because we are able to circumvent the conscious mind and reach the unconscious, which was not immersed in the River of Forgetfulness.
-What we face in the twenty-fist century is the eroding of individualism and human dignity in an overcrowded society dominated by materialism.
-Amnesiac blocks were set in place with human beings to prevent preconditioned responses to certain karmic events. However, the benefits of amnesia may not longer outweigh the drawbacks of lives existing within a vacuum of chemically-induced apathy. There are too many people trying to escape from reality because they do not see their identity as having purpose or meaning. Drugs and alcohol aside, in overcrowded, high tech societies around the world, people have an emptiness of spirit because they are ruled by their body ego senses. They have little or no connection to their real Self.
-When we totally align ourselves to belief systems based upon the experience of other people, I feel we lose something of our individuality in the process. The road to self-discovery and shaping a personal philosophy not designed by the doctrines of organizations takes efforts but the rewards are great.
-In the search for our own path of spirituality it is wise to ask: What sort of behavioral code do I believe in?
-You were not given your body by a chance of nature. It was selected for you by spiritual advisors and after previewing their offerings of other host bodies, you agreed to accept the body you now have. Thus, you are not a victim of circumstance. You are entrusted with your body to be an active participant in life, not a bystander. We must not lose sight of the idea that we accepted this sacred contract of life and this means the roles we play on Earth are actually greater than ourselves.
Destiny of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes XIV
-'Teachers can learn from students'
-'This is my passion, working with the moral codes of intelligent beings'
-Most of us start off making a lot of dumb mistakes and by the end of our life we become smarter. The idea of coming back in repeated incarnations is that eventually we will get it right early on and lead productive lives from the beginning.
-We are given many host bodies and all of them are imperfect. Rather than being obsessive about a body which will only last one lifetime, concentrate on the evolution of your soul Self and rely on your spiritual power.
-Why don't the powers that exist in the spirit world just prevent these natural disasters from happening in the first place and save people a lot of grief?
-Then, they would not be natural catastrophes, which are intended to be part of the conditions of life on Earth.
-'The mind of the psychopath is closed to reason. I am in training to maintain positive energy around calmer heads who can make a difference in world events.
-Those spiritual masters who designed the laboratory of chaos we call Earth did not set things in motion and then walk away. There are superior beings who care enough about our survival to watch over us.
-Within a geophysical environment, there are purely structural specialists, and those who create living things within these settings.
-These designer souls are the biologists and botanists of the spirit world and they say that extraterrestrial life exists on billions of planets. I have an extensive file on souls who have incarnated on other worlds and souls who have traveled to a variety of strange worlds for both study and recreation between their lives on Earth.
-I picture a full-fledged Explorer Soul as a highly specialized, non-incarnating being who seeks out suitable training sites for the less-experienced souls and then eventually leads them to these regions.
-I don't see nearly as many clients with memories of going to mental worlds. This is natural. We are beings used to bright light and physical dimensions.
-If we have dreams of being tall giants, very short elfin-appearing beings, or having the bodies of water and air creatures, this could mean these dreams reflect unconscious memories of a prior incarnation on another world.
-Everything on Earth and in the Universe is apparently connected by thought waves to and from the spirit world.
-Hybrid soul clients. These people are negatively influenced by too-little experience with the human body and too many alien imprints carried over from their former existences.
-'This is my passion, working with the moral codes of intelligent beings'
-Most of us start off making a lot of dumb mistakes and by the end of our life we become smarter. The idea of coming back in repeated incarnations is that eventually we will get it right early on and lead productive lives from the beginning.
-We are given many host bodies and all of them are imperfect. Rather than being obsessive about a body which will only last one lifetime, concentrate on the evolution of your soul Self and rely on your spiritual power.
-Why don't the powers that exist in the spirit world just prevent these natural disasters from happening in the first place and save people a lot of grief?
-Then, they would not be natural catastrophes, which are intended to be part of the conditions of life on Earth.
-'The mind of the psychopath is closed to reason. I am in training to maintain positive energy around calmer heads who can make a difference in world events.
-Those spiritual masters who designed the laboratory of chaos we call Earth did not set things in motion and then walk away. There are superior beings who care enough about our survival to watch over us.
-Within a geophysical environment, there are purely structural specialists, and those who create living things within these settings.
-These designer souls are the biologists and botanists of the spirit world and they say that extraterrestrial life exists on billions of planets. I have an extensive file on souls who have incarnated on other worlds and souls who have traveled to a variety of strange worlds for both study and recreation between their lives on Earth.
-I picture a full-fledged Explorer Soul as a highly specialized, non-incarnating being who seeks out suitable training sites for the less-experienced souls and then eventually leads them to these regions.
-I don't see nearly as many clients with memories of going to mental worlds. This is natural. We are beings used to bright light and physical dimensions.
-If we have dreams of being tall giants, very short elfin-appearing beings, or having the bodies of water and air creatures, this could mean these dreams reflect unconscious memories of a prior incarnation on another world.
-Everything on Earth and in the Universe is apparently connected by thought waves to and from the spirit world.
-Hybrid soul clients. These people are negatively influenced by too-little experience with the human body and too many alien imprints carried over from their former existences.
Destiny of souls by M. Newton. Quotes XIII
-As a rule, members of the same soul group do not return in their next incarnations as members of the same genetic human family.
-In unusual cases, our guides may be indulgent with souls who have strong feelings about unfinished karmic business withing a particular family and wish to return to the same family. '
-I often find that a favorite grandparent in this life was a sibling or best friend in a former life.
-The first person to come forward and greet us after a life is always soul of significance.
-Role assignments in life all have purpose. If you grew up with a particularly difficult parent, ask yourself this question: what did I learn at hands of this person that has given me wisdom I would not posses if he or she had been in my life?
-'It helps my game of life to be around better players'
-Soul types in the spirit world:
1. Souls who are either unable or unwilling to function individually.
2. Souls who do not wish to incarnate in physical form.
3. Souls who incarnate only on physical worlds.
4. Souls who have both the ability and desire to function in all types of physical and mental environments.
-The desire for time alone in the spirit world comes from an intense need to dwell within the sacred confines of pure thought to try and touch the Source from which they sprang.
-'It took me centuries to learn to trust and be open with people'
-Primary cluster groups began their existence together and remain closely associated through hundreds of incarnations.
-The three principal elements I am most aware of for soul specialty selection are talent, past performance and personal desire.
-Once a new soul is created they are not immediately thrown into a physical incarnation. Earth is such a difficult school for training it is best that many new souls are allowed time in adjusting to planetary life as discarnates.
-In unusual cases, our guides may be indulgent with souls who have strong feelings about unfinished karmic business withing a particular family and wish to return to the same family. '
-I often find that a favorite grandparent in this life was a sibling or best friend in a former life.
-The first person to come forward and greet us after a life is always soul of significance.
-Role assignments in life all have purpose. If you grew up with a particularly difficult parent, ask yourself this question: what did I learn at hands of this person that has given me wisdom I would not posses if he or she had been in my life?
-'It helps my game of life to be around better players'
-Soul types in the spirit world:
1. Souls who are either unable or unwilling to function individually.
2. Souls who do not wish to incarnate in physical form.
3. Souls who incarnate only on physical worlds.
4. Souls who have both the ability and desire to function in all types of physical and mental environments.
-The desire for time alone in the spirit world comes from an intense need to dwell within the sacred confines of pure thought to try and touch the Source from which they sprang.
-'It took me centuries to learn to trust and be open with people'
-Primary cluster groups began their existence together and remain closely associated through hundreds of incarnations.
-The three principal elements I am most aware of for soul specialty selection are talent, past performance and personal desire.
-Once a new soul is created they are not immediately thrown into a physical incarnation. Earth is such a difficult school for training it is best that many new souls are allowed time in adjusting to planetary life as discarnates.
Friday, January 25, 2019
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Destiny of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes XII
-We mistakenly assume people who choose to live alone are lonely when actually they have rich lives that are calm, reflective and productive. Connecting with someone for whom you have no feelings just for the sake of not being alone is more lonely than being by yourself.
-If you soulmate is supposed to appear they will come into your life, often when you least expect it.
-One of the greatest motivations for souls to incarnate is the opportunity for expression in physical form.
-"Now I see he was an acquaintance in the spirit world from another group. It was no accident we bumped into each other that day. He was sent to me."
-It is my custom to take subjects into the spirit world after death from their last life so they will not miss the natural wonders of normal spirit world entry.
-Souls are met by their guides and and friends from the spirit world at the appropriate time and place. Each soul requires their own rate of ascension, which includes orientation stops and energy rejuvenation, even if they are returning to the same soul group.
-You would think that the time we spend in the spirit world should eliminate all residual effects of our past life experiences. In most cases it does but, as I have said, some people do carry physical and emotional body imprints from one life to the next. This is especially true if that imprint bears upon a particular karmic lesson in the life to come.
-Many soulmates have a preparation class just before their next incarnation.
-One aspect of this prep class might also include two soulmates going off alone and sending visual image to each other of what they will look like in their new human bodies and under what circumstances they are going to meet.
-"I was permitted to see my wife in the screening room for the next life. She was an attractive aerobics instructor who I would meet in a gym. I studied her body and facial features carefully because I didn't want to mess up our meeting, as I had done in my prior life. The scent of her body bathed in sweat was embedded in my mind... her gestures... her smile... and most of all her eyes. The moment I saw her in this life it was like tow magnets pulling together."
-If you soulmate is supposed to appear they will come into your life, often when you least expect it.
-One of the greatest motivations for souls to incarnate is the opportunity for expression in physical form.
-"Now I see he was an acquaintance in the spirit world from another group. It was no accident we bumped into each other that day. He was sent to me."
-It is my custom to take subjects into the spirit world after death from their last life so they will not miss the natural wonders of normal spirit world entry.
-Souls are met by their guides and and friends from the spirit world at the appropriate time and place. Each soul requires their own rate of ascension, which includes orientation stops and energy rejuvenation, even if they are returning to the same soul group.
-You would think that the time we spend in the spirit world should eliminate all residual effects of our past life experiences. In most cases it does but, as I have said, some people do carry physical and emotional body imprints from one life to the next. This is especially true if that imprint bears upon a particular karmic lesson in the life to come.
-Many soulmates have a preparation class just before their next incarnation.
-One aspect of this prep class might also include two soulmates going off alone and sending visual image to each other of what they will look like in their new human bodies and under what circumstances they are going to meet.
-"I was permitted to see my wife in the screening room for the next life. She was an attractive aerobics instructor who I would meet in a gym. I studied her body and facial features carefully because I didn't want to mess up our meeting, as I had done in my prior life. The scent of her body bathed in sweat was embedded in my mind... her gestures... her smile... and most of all her eyes. The moment I saw her in this life it was like tow magnets pulling together."
Destiny of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes XI
-People ask me if souls feel remorse both during and after the council meeting if they were involved in acts of cruel wrongdoing. Of course they do, but often I must remind those who ask this question that accountability for wrongdoing frequently comes with the selection of the next body for the payment of karmic debts.
-Although karma is associated with justice, its essence is not punitive but one of bringing balance to the sum of our deeds in all past lives.
-Many of our attitudes and ego hang-ups come from other lifetimes and seeing this in a different context gives the client a new perspective in current time.
-People need to see that the twists and turns in their lives all have meaning and purpose.
-As ethereal beings, our growth actually began in the mental realm of the spirit world with other souls before any of us incarnated.
-During reincarnation, the closeness souls feel for each other in a mental setting is severely tested by karmic challenges in our host bodies.
-"He was so ungainly and rough-looking I was embarrassed to be seen with him because of what others might think. Out of pride, spite and feelings that I was being taken for granted, I married a handsome man who catered to my whims. I lost the happiness that could have been mine."
-Being with the 'wrong' person for a period in your life does not mean that time was wasted. The relationship was probably intended in advance. In fact, you might see this soul again in the spirit world in a different light.
-I will ask about prior and current relationships that have had significance in their life.
-Without trust, intimacy suffers and love cannot grow. Love is the acceptance of all the imperfections of our partners. True love makes you better than you would be without that person in your life.
-People often equate love with happiness. Yet happiness is a state of mind that must develop within you and not be dependent upon someone else. The most healthy kind of love is one where you already feel good about yourself and so extending your love to someone else is totally unselfish. Love takes hard work and continual maintenance. I have had numerous divorced subjects who learn that their first loves were primary soulmates. Things might have worked out if they both had tried harder.
-Soulmates will from time to time separate for a life or two and not appear at all.
-Every era on Earth is different as to the sort of attachment and experience we will have with a soulmate. However, each life with them builds upon former lives.
-Although karma is associated with justice, its essence is not punitive but one of bringing balance to the sum of our deeds in all past lives.
-Many of our attitudes and ego hang-ups come from other lifetimes and seeing this in a different context gives the client a new perspective in current time.
-People need to see that the twists and turns in their lives all have meaning and purpose.
-As ethereal beings, our growth actually began in the mental realm of the spirit world with other souls before any of us incarnated.
-During reincarnation, the closeness souls feel for each other in a mental setting is severely tested by karmic challenges in our host bodies.
-"He was so ungainly and rough-looking I was embarrassed to be seen with him because of what others might think. Out of pride, spite and feelings that I was being taken for granted, I married a handsome man who catered to my whims. I lost the happiness that could have been mine."
-Being with the 'wrong' person for a period in your life does not mean that time was wasted. The relationship was probably intended in advance. In fact, you might see this soul again in the spirit world in a different light.
-I will ask about prior and current relationships that have had significance in their life.
-Without trust, intimacy suffers and love cannot grow. Love is the acceptance of all the imperfections of our partners. True love makes you better than you would be without that person in your life.
-People often equate love with happiness. Yet happiness is a state of mind that must develop within you and not be dependent upon someone else. The most healthy kind of love is one where you already feel good about yourself and so extending your love to someone else is totally unselfish. Love takes hard work and continual maintenance. I have had numerous divorced subjects who learn that their first loves were primary soulmates. Things might have worked out if they both had tried harder.
-Soulmates will from time to time separate for a life or two and not appear at all.
-Every era on Earth is different as to the sort of attachment and experience we will have with a soulmate. However, each life with them builds upon former lives.
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Destiny of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes X
-The very young soul who has been to Earth less than five times.
-As souls develop and become more complex they appear to require more specialists on their panels.
-Our chairperson, and perhaps one or two other Elders, are normally present over great spans of time between many lives.
-Members of the same soul group usually go before different councils.
-Apparently, specialists come into our panels at certain times to lend their expertise if we continue to fall into the same ruts.
-"I am afraid of confrontation and lives of adversity. He says: we never give you more than you can handle, keep extending yourself, you have much to offer"
-This subject chose to be a woman of small stature and ordinary features in her current life, rather than accepting a tempting offer of another body choice as a dazzling beauty.
-"That which you gain from each difficult life, you gain for all eternity"
-The council just doesn't inquire into our most immediate past life. Lines of questioning follow across the sum of all our lives and cover the larger picture of our progress toward self-fulfillment.
-"Emmanual, we are not here to judge you, punish you, or to override your thoughts. We want you to look at yourself through our eyes, if you can. That means to forgive yourself. This is the most challenging aspect of your time with us because it is our desire that you accept yourself for who you are with the same unconditional love we have for you. We are here to support you in your work on Earth."
-"It's so crazy! An entire lifetime of giving money to charity and they are interested in this! I gave this woman no money, we only talked..."
-"I probably could have participated more... to engage others... and fought for my convictions..."
-I have had cases where a spouse will intentionally choose a body that has a high probability of dying young from a variety of natural causes to allow the surviving spouse to again work through grief in a more healthy fashion.
-"Each life we live fits together with all our other lives in a continuum toward fulfilling our primary purpose".
-"I specifically asked for a body in this life which would be subjected to incurable pain".
-Case 43 is what I would call an accelerated soul. Unz has only been incarnating on Earth for some five thousand years, a very short time considering her advancement. This is because she never skates in any of her lives.
-Is Earth a laboratory created by higher forms of energy for the lower to advance through many states of development?
-Our transformation from total ignorance to perfected knowledge involves a continual process of enlightenment by having faith that we can be better than we are.
-As souls develop and become more complex they appear to require more specialists on their panels.
-Our chairperson, and perhaps one or two other Elders, are normally present over great spans of time between many lives.
-Members of the same soul group usually go before different councils.
-Apparently, specialists come into our panels at certain times to lend their expertise if we continue to fall into the same ruts.
-"I am afraid of confrontation and lives of adversity. He says: we never give you more than you can handle, keep extending yourself, you have much to offer"
-This subject chose to be a woman of small stature and ordinary features in her current life, rather than accepting a tempting offer of another body choice as a dazzling beauty.
-"That which you gain from each difficult life, you gain for all eternity"
-The council just doesn't inquire into our most immediate past life. Lines of questioning follow across the sum of all our lives and cover the larger picture of our progress toward self-fulfillment.
-"Emmanual, we are not here to judge you, punish you, or to override your thoughts. We want you to look at yourself through our eyes, if you can. That means to forgive yourself. This is the most challenging aspect of your time with us because it is our desire that you accept yourself for who you are with the same unconditional love we have for you. We are here to support you in your work on Earth."
-"It's so crazy! An entire lifetime of giving money to charity and they are interested in this! I gave this woman no money, we only talked..."
-"I probably could have participated more... to engage others... and fought for my convictions..."
-I have had cases where a spouse will intentionally choose a body that has a high probability of dying young from a variety of natural causes to allow the surviving spouse to again work through grief in a more healthy fashion.
-"Each life we live fits together with all our other lives in a continuum toward fulfilling our primary purpose".
-"I specifically asked for a body in this life which would be subjected to incurable pain".
-Case 43 is what I would call an accelerated soul. Unz has only been incarnating on Earth for some five thousand years, a very short time considering her advancement. This is because she never skates in any of her lives.
-Is Earth a laboratory created by higher forms of energy for the lower to advance through many states of development?
-Our transformation from total ignorance to perfected knowledge involves a continual process of enlightenment by having faith that we can be better than we are.
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Destinty of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes IX
-"By studying my book I am able to recognize mistakes and experience alternatives. Being in this quiet study are, watching all the other souls at the tables doing the same thing, well, it gives me a feeling of camaraderie with them and all we are going through together."
-A divine intelligence placed us in this environment to learn and grow for a greater good. None of us are here by accident and neither are those events which affect us in our own reality at this moment in time.
-I hear about a visitation by an interdimensional traveler whose experience far exceeds that of the group.
-Certainly, there are correlations between the soul mind and our bodies, buy physical and mental health are the prime determinants in human auras.
-Just as we may bring imprints from a former life into our current life, we can also take body imprints into the spirit world as silhouetted energy reminders of our physical incarnations.
-Meditation as a daily discipline is hard work which pays big dividends.
-When the mind is in a pure, centered state we can find who we really are, the essence we may have lost somewhere along the road of life.
-During my prehypnosis intake interview with a new client, I inquire about the cast of characters in their current life.
-Color, form, movement and sound are individual markers of souls in their groups.
-My clients tell me about the overwhelming kindness, benevolence and infinite patience of everyone in ethereal study areas. Even the analysis of each soul´s performance by fellow students is conducted with total love, respect and a mutual commitment to make things better in the next incarnation.
-We are assigned to certain soul groups for our differences as well as similarities.
-At the top of the discarded list of negative emotions are anger and fear. Souls volunteer both to teach and learn certain lessons and karmic plans may not always work out in the way they were intended, given the variables of earthly environments.
-Unlike human beings, all spiritual beings are bonded together. At the same time, souls strictly observe the sanctity of other groups.
-An axiom of the spirit world is that souls are always hardest on themselves in terms of performance.
-When we incarnate into a new body, the soul´s character is united with the temperament of its host to form one persona. The boy is the outward manifestation of the soul but it is not the total embodiment of our soul Self. Souls who come to Earth think of themselves as becoming masked actors on a world stage.
-Our guides become stage directors who go over past life scenes with us, frame by frame, of both good and bad times. Errors in judgment are presented in small bites. All possible outcomes are studied and compared by designing new scripts for these scenes with different sets of choices that could have been made in each circumstance.
-Recreations of past life alternatives offer the soul an objective means of comprehension and foster a desire to improve. The system is ingenious. Souls never seem to get bored in these educational exercises which invite creativity, originality and a desire to triumph over adversity by acquiring wisdom from human relationships.
-Not long after souls return to their spirit groups they are called before a gathering of wise beings.
-I have found the souls of humans on other worlds in prior incarnations to be in host bodies slightly more or less intelligent than our own species. I have never had a client assigned to another world where they were not the most dominant intelligence on that particular planet. This is by design.
-The spirit world is a place of order and the Council of Elders exemplifies justice. They are not the ultimate source of divine authority, but they appear to represent that last station of beings responsible for souls still incarnating.
-They won´t be lives of easy karmic choices, otherwise we would learn nothing by coming to Earth. However, the risks of life and sanity on this planet are not designed to cause us any further pain after death.
-My subjects state they appear before their council right after an incarnation and many report they will visit them a second time just before rebirth.
-"It takes a while for us to get rid of the density of the physical body... the constrictions of it... before we are completely free. This is one reason why I don't need my guide so much at the second meeting."
-The purpose of the Elders is to question the soul in order to help them achieve their goals in the next lifetime.
-Elders want to make sure that we totally understand the consequences of our actions, particularly toward others.
-Souls have the right of refusal to return to Earth.
-The Council is already considering our next potential body and future environment.
-Our intent in life is of utmost importance at council meetings. The Elders know all about us before we appear, but during the deliberations how our soul mind interfaced with a human brain is carefully analyzed.
-The council is looking to see if the inner immortal character of our soul maintained its integrity in terms of values, ideals and action during incarnation. They want to know if we were submerged by our host body, or did we shine through? Did our soul effectively merge as a partner to the human brain as one harmonious outward human personality? Council members question souls about the use of power. . Was our influence positive, or corrupted by the need to dominate others? Were we led by the convictions of others, demonstrating no personal power, or did we make original contributions? The council is not so concerned about how many times we fell down in our progress through life, but whether we had the courage to pick ourselves up and finish strong.
-A divine intelligence placed us in this environment to learn and grow for a greater good. None of us are here by accident and neither are those events which affect us in our own reality at this moment in time.
-I hear about a visitation by an interdimensional traveler whose experience far exceeds that of the group.
-Certainly, there are correlations between the soul mind and our bodies, buy physical and mental health are the prime determinants in human auras.
-Just as we may bring imprints from a former life into our current life, we can also take body imprints into the spirit world as silhouetted energy reminders of our physical incarnations.
-Meditation as a daily discipline is hard work which pays big dividends.
-When the mind is in a pure, centered state we can find who we really are, the essence we may have lost somewhere along the road of life.
-During my prehypnosis intake interview with a new client, I inquire about the cast of characters in their current life.
-Color, form, movement and sound are individual markers of souls in their groups.
-My clients tell me about the overwhelming kindness, benevolence and infinite patience of everyone in ethereal study areas. Even the analysis of each soul´s performance by fellow students is conducted with total love, respect and a mutual commitment to make things better in the next incarnation.
-We are assigned to certain soul groups for our differences as well as similarities.
-At the top of the discarded list of negative emotions are anger and fear. Souls volunteer both to teach and learn certain lessons and karmic plans may not always work out in the way they were intended, given the variables of earthly environments.
-Unlike human beings, all spiritual beings are bonded together. At the same time, souls strictly observe the sanctity of other groups.
-An axiom of the spirit world is that souls are always hardest on themselves in terms of performance.
-When we incarnate into a new body, the soul´s character is united with the temperament of its host to form one persona. The boy is the outward manifestation of the soul but it is not the total embodiment of our soul Self. Souls who come to Earth think of themselves as becoming masked actors on a world stage.
-Our guides become stage directors who go over past life scenes with us, frame by frame, of both good and bad times. Errors in judgment are presented in small bites. All possible outcomes are studied and compared by designing new scripts for these scenes with different sets of choices that could have been made in each circumstance.
-Recreations of past life alternatives offer the soul an objective means of comprehension and foster a desire to improve. The system is ingenious. Souls never seem to get bored in these educational exercises which invite creativity, originality and a desire to triumph over adversity by acquiring wisdom from human relationships.
-Not long after souls return to their spirit groups they are called before a gathering of wise beings.
-I have found the souls of humans on other worlds in prior incarnations to be in host bodies slightly more or less intelligent than our own species. I have never had a client assigned to another world where they were not the most dominant intelligence on that particular planet. This is by design.
-The spirit world is a place of order and the Council of Elders exemplifies justice. They are not the ultimate source of divine authority, but they appear to represent that last station of beings responsible for souls still incarnating.
-They won´t be lives of easy karmic choices, otherwise we would learn nothing by coming to Earth. However, the risks of life and sanity on this planet are not designed to cause us any further pain after death.
-My subjects state they appear before their council right after an incarnation and many report they will visit them a second time just before rebirth.
-"It takes a while for us to get rid of the density of the physical body... the constrictions of it... before we are completely free. This is one reason why I don't need my guide so much at the second meeting."
-The purpose of the Elders is to question the soul in order to help them achieve their goals in the next lifetime.
-Elders want to make sure that we totally understand the consequences of our actions, particularly toward others.
-Souls have the right of refusal to return to Earth.
-The Council is already considering our next potential body and future environment.
-Our intent in life is of utmost importance at council meetings. The Elders know all about us before we appear, but during the deliberations how our soul mind interfaced with a human brain is carefully analyzed.
-The council is looking to see if the inner immortal character of our soul maintained its integrity in terms of values, ideals and action during incarnation. They want to know if we were submerged by our host body, or did we shine through? Did our soul effectively merge as a partner to the human brain as one harmonious outward human personality? Council members question souls about the use of power. . Was our influence positive, or corrupted by the need to dominate others? Were we led by the convictions of others, demonstrating no personal power, or did we make original contributions? The council is not so concerned about how many times we fell down in our progress through life, but whether we had the courage to pick ourselves up and finish strong.
Destinty of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes VIII
-"Through us, not from us, comes a life force of all knowing love and knowledge."
-"There are many physical worlds similar to Earth. We call them pleasure worlds and suffering worlds."
-Original scenes from all our lives never leave our memory as souls.
-For the spiritual hypnotherapist there are two forces operating in regression. On the one hand, we have the soul mind at work with its great storehouse of past life and spiritual life memories. On the other side, we also have the conscious memories of a current body engaged in descriptive imagery while the subject is in hypnosis.
-Attitudes and beliefs from the soul mind do affect the biological mind.
-There are countless other elements involving thought sequencing which we bring into our host body from hundreds of former lives.
-The average subject has led past lives as Caucasians, Orientals and Africans with no heredity connections.
-"I see my parents. They stop what they are doing and drift over the short space between our two clusters to embrace me and whisper encouragement. Finally, I reach my own group and everyone es welcoming me back."
-"The whole time I have been gone seems like a brief trip down to the corner grocery store to buy a carton of milk."
-"Teachers have infinite patience because time is meaningless."
-It is a standard learning imperative that we begin to study our past lives in depth right away.
-People who tell me they don't belong on Earth need to be taken seriously.
-"The thick line is like the trunk of a tree and the smaller ones are the branches. I know the thick one was my main path. The old man is pointing at that line and scolding me a bit about taking a dead end branch."
-"He shows me the first page with a universe of millions of galaxies."
-In our session together my subject learned her soul has a tendency to prejudge serious events in her life in a negative manner. In many past lives there was always a nagging thought that whatever decision she made in a crisis would be the wrong one.
-The function of the smaller library screens is for monitoring past and current time on Earth on a continuing basis.
-"There are many physical worlds similar to Earth. We call them pleasure worlds and suffering worlds."
-Original scenes from all our lives never leave our memory as souls.
-For the spiritual hypnotherapist there are two forces operating in regression. On the one hand, we have the soul mind at work with its great storehouse of past life and spiritual life memories. On the other side, we also have the conscious memories of a current body engaged in descriptive imagery while the subject is in hypnosis.
-Attitudes and beliefs from the soul mind do affect the biological mind.
-There are countless other elements involving thought sequencing which we bring into our host body from hundreds of former lives.
-The average subject has led past lives as Caucasians, Orientals and Africans with no heredity connections.
-"I see my parents. They stop what they are doing and drift over the short space between our two clusters to embrace me and whisper encouragement. Finally, I reach my own group and everyone es welcoming me back."
-"The whole time I have been gone seems like a brief trip down to the corner grocery store to buy a carton of milk."
-"Teachers have infinite patience because time is meaningless."
-It is a standard learning imperative that we begin to study our past lives in depth right away.
-People who tell me they don't belong on Earth need to be taken seriously.
-"The thick line is like the trunk of a tree and the smaller ones are the branches. I know the thick one was my main path. The old man is pointing at that line and scolding me a bit about taking a dead end branch."
-"He shows me the first page with a universe of millions of galaxies."
-In our session together my subject learned her soul has a tendency to prejudge serious events in her life in a negative manner. In many past lives there was always a nagging thought that whatever decision she made in a crisis would be the wrong one.
-The function of the smaller library screens is for monitoring past and current time on Earth on a continuing basis.
Sunday, January 6, 2019
Destiny of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes VII
-Guides use the sense memory we had in our physical bodies to assist in our recovery.
-I have my own theory of madness. When this soul can no longer control the aberrant behavior of its body, the two personas begin to separate into dissociated personality.
-The resurrection of the soul in the spirit world is merciful.
-There are souls whose acts in host bodies were so heinous they are not permitted to return to Earth.
-The fine art of energy reconstruction is handled by nonreincarnating masters.
-I believe the source of many earthly myths come from our soul memories of former existences on other worlds.
-When we see people who are victims of great adversity in life, this does not necessarily mean they were perpetrators of evil or wrongdoing of any kind in a former life. A soul with no such past associations might choose to suffer through a particular aspect of emotional pain to learn greater compassion and empathy for others by volunteering in advance for a life of travail.
-Energy adjustments are necessary for incarnates as well as discarnates.
-The Earth itself has its own vibrational rate and there are people capable of tuning into this ecological energy.
-Sedona, Arizona; Machu Pichu, Peru; Ayers Rock, Australia; places with these magnetic gridlines converge are said to enhance unconscious thought and make it easier to open our mental passages into spirituals realms.
-All souls who come to Earth leave a part of their energy behind in the spirit world.
-If someone you loved died thirty years ahead of you and has since reincarnated, you can still see them again upon your own return to the spirit world.
-Amnesia forces us to go into the testing area of the laboratory of Earth without the answers for the tasks we were sent here to accomplish. Amnesia also relieves us of the baggage for past failures so we may use new approaches with more confidence.
-Typically, a highly advanced soul will bring no more than 25 percent of its total capacity to Earth where the average, less confident soul has 50-70 percent.
-When we review our future life from the spirit world we are given advice about the energy requirements of the body we will occupy. The decision of how much energy we should take is ours. Many souls want to leave as much behind as possible because they love their home and the activities going on there.
-The souls who choose to split into two or more bodies within the same general time frame on Earth, want to accelerate their learning.
-"Physical worlds like Earth, with the type of body we have, it's a stage of mental development."
-I have my own theory of madness. When this soul can no longer control the aberrant behavior of its body, the two personas begin to separate into dissociated personality.
-The resurrection of the soul in the spirit world is merciful.
-There are souls whose acts in host bodies were so heinous they are not permitted to return to Earth.
-The fine art of energy reconstruction is handled by nonreincarnating masters.
-I believe the source of many earthly myths come from our soul memories of former existences on other worlds.
-When we see people who are victims of great adversity in life, this does not necessarily mean they were perpetrators of evil or wrongdoing of any kind in a former life. A soul with no such past associations might choose to suffer through a particular aspect of emotional pain to learn greater compassion and empathy for others by volunteering in advance for a life of travail.
-Energy adjustments are necessary for incarnates as well as discarnates.
-The Earth itself has its own vibrational rate and there are people capable of tuning into this ecological energy.
-Sedona, Arizona; Machu Pichu, Peru; Ayers Rock, Australia; places with these magnetic gridlines converge are said to enhance unconscious thought and make it easier to open our mental passages into spirituals realms.
-All souls who come to Earth leave a part of their energy behind in the spirit world.
-If someone you loved died thirty years ahead of you and has since reincarnated, you can still see them again upon your own return to the spirit world.
-Amnesia forces us to go into the testing area of the laboratory of Earth without the answers for the tasks we were sent here to accomplish. Amnesia also relieves us of the baggage for past failures so we may use new approaches with more confidence.
-Typically, a highly advanced soul will bring no more than 25 percent of its total capacity to Earth where the average, less confident soul has 50-70 percent.
-When we review our future life from the spirit world we are given advice about the energy requirements of the body we will occupy. The decision of how much energy we should take is ours. Many souls want to leave as much behind as possible because they love their home and the activities going on there.
-The souls who choose to split into two or more bodies within the same general time frame on Earth, want to accelerate their learning.
-"Physical worlds like Earth, with the type of body we have, it's a stage of mental development."
Thursday, January 3, 2019
Destiny of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes VI
-The integrity of souls involves an all-consuming desire that those they love have the free choice to finish their lives in any way they want.
-"Death is like a waking up after a long sleep where you had just a muddled awareness. The release you receive is one that comes after crying , only here you are not crying."
-Death only exchanges one reality for another in the continuum of existence.
-Upon death we go directly from one astral plane around Earth through the gateway into the Spirit world.
-Within the astral plane surrounding Earth, alternate or coexisting realities are part of our physical world.
-Higher beings are instantly aware of our death. Yet the wishes of the deceased are respected.
-"Placing a disturbed soul into a new body would be totally unfair to a baby just staring life."
-Souls have the ownership of their energy and most ask their guides to be taken to the centers of healing and rejuvenation in the spirit world.
-Our physical world may have unhappy or mischievous spirits floating around, but the do not lock in and inhabit the minds of people.
-Souls come to Earth to work on their own shortcomings.
-Soul's life contract.
-Like a fingerprint, each soul has a unique identity in its formation, composition and vibrational distribution.
-To begin to understand the soul, one must listen to the heart.
-Souls often leave their bodies seconds before a violent death.
-All but the most advanced souls crossing back the spirit world are met by benevolent spirits who make contact with their positive energy and escort needy souls to quiet recovery areas.
-"Death is like a waking up after a long sleep where you had just a muddled awareness. The release you receive is one that comes after crying , only here you are not crying."
-Death only exchanges one reality for another in the continuum of existence.
-Upon death we go directly from one astral plane around Earth through the gateway into the Spirit world.
-Within the astral plane surrounding Earth, alternate or coexisting realities are part of our physical world.
-Higher beings are instantly aware of our death. Yet the wishes of the deceased are respected.
-"Placing a disturbed soul into a new body would be totally unfair to a baby just staring life."
-Souls have the ownership of their energy and most ask their guides to be taken to the centers of healing and rejuvenation in the spirit world.
-Our physical world may have unhappy or mischievous spirits floating around, but the do not lock in and inhabit the minds of people.
-Souls come to Earth to work on their own shortcomings.
-Soul's life contract.
-Like a fingerprint, each soul has a unique identity in its formation, composition and vibrational distribution.
-To begin to understand the soul, one must listen to the heart.
-Souls often leave their bodies seconds before a violent death.
-All but the most advanced souls crossing back the spirit world are met by benevolent spirits who make contact with their positive energy and escort needy souls to quiet recovery areas.
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Destiny of souls by M. Newton. Quotes V
-When a soul once again returns to a pure energy state in the spirit world, it no longer feels hate, anger, envy, jealousy and the like. It has come to Earth to experience these sorts of emotions and learn from them. But after departing from Earth, do souls feel any sadness for what they have left behind? Certainly, souls carry nostalgia for the good times in all their past physical lives. This is tempered by a state of blissful omniscience and such a heightened sense of well being that souls feel more alive than when they were on Earth.
-Two sorts of negative emotions of souls:
1. Karmic guilt for making very poor choices.
2. A longing to reunite with the Source of their existence.
-It's a soul's destiny to search for truth in their experiences in order to gain wisdom.
-Since the immortal character of the soul is no longer encumbered by individual temperament and the chemistry of its last body, it is at peace.
-Two sorts of negative emotions of souls:
1. Karmic guilt for making very poor choices.
2. A longing to reunite with the Source of their existence.
-It's a soul's destiny to search for truth in their experiences in order to gain wisdom.
-Since the immortal character of the soul is no longer encumbered by individual temperament and the chemistry of its last body, it is at peace.
Monday, December 31, 2018
Calendar Book 2018
1. January: Journey of souls by M. Newton
2. February: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
3. March: The vision of a champion by A. Dorrance
4. April: Extreme ownership by Willink & Babin
5. May: Start with why by S. Sinek
6. June: Being mortal by A. Gawande
7. July: Pastores del Pirineo de Severino Pallaruelo.
8. August: Notas de la vida de un pastor de Jorge Puyó Navarro
9. September: Ansó. Sus montes y su ganadería de Jorge Puyó Navarro
10. October: Handbook for teacher in Human Values Education by R & S. Farmer
11. November: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by B. Franklin.
12. December: Destiny of souls by M. Newton
2. February: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
3. March: The vision of a champion by A. Dorrance
4. April: Extreme ownership by Willink & Babin
5. May: Start with why by S. Sinek
6. June: Being mortal by A. Gawande
7. July: Pastores del Pirineo de Severino Pallaruelo.
8. August: Notas de la vida de un pastor de Jorge Puyó Navarro
9. September: Ansó. Sus montes y su ganadería de Jorge Puyó Navarro
10. October: Handbook for teacher in Human Values Education by R & S. Farmer
11. November: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by B. Franklin.
12. December: Destiny of souls by M. Newton
Calendar Book 2017.
1. January: Your erroneous zones by Wayne Dyer.
2. February: Angels in my hair by Lorne Byrne.
3. March: The champions mind by Jim Afremow.
4. April: The diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank.
5. May: Mental training for peak performance by Steve Ungerleider.
6. June: Messages from the masters by Bryan Weiss.
7. July: Hillbilly elegy by J.D. Vance.
8. August: Green card warrior by Nick Adams.
9. September: Grit by Angela Duckworth.
10. October: Wooden by John Wooden.
11. November: Knight. My story by Bobby Knight.
12. December: Love from Heaven by Lorna Byrne.
2. February: Angels in my hair by Lorne Byrne.
3. March: The champions mind by Jim Afremow.
4. April: The diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank.
5. May: Mental training for peak performance by Steve Ungerleider.
6. June: Messages from the masters by Bryan Weiss.
7. July: Hillbilly elegy by J.D. Vance.
8. August: Green card warrior by Nick Adams.
9. September: Grit by Angela Duckworth.
10. October: Wooden by John Wooden.
11. November: Knight. My story by Bobby Knight.
12. December: Love from Heaven by Lorna Byrne.
Friday, December 28, 2018
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Destiny of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes IV
-"I can come back whenever he really gets down in the dumps and yearns for me."
-Spirits are very selective in their use of our dreams sequences.
-Spiritual dreams involve our guides, teaching souls and our soulmates who come as messengers to assist us with solutions.
-Some of our greatest revelations come from the episodic dreams of events, places and behavior patterns emanating from experiences before we acquired our present body.
-Ways spirits connect with the living:
1. Somatic touch.
2. Personification with objects.
3. Dream recognition.
4. Transference through children.
5. Contact in familiar settings.
-Souls don't give up easily on us.
-We will see each other again some day, I know.
-Personal guides and soulmates, however they are represented, contact us from the other side if we require consolation.
-Angel-like spirits who regularly come to Earth between lives simply to help people they don't know.
-Having other relationships neither lessens nor dishonors our first love, it only validates that love, providing a state of healthy acceptance has been reached in between.
-Souls lose most of their negative emotional baggage when they shed their bodies.
-Spirits are very selective in their use of our dreams sequences.
-Spiritual dreams involve our guides, teaching souls and our soulmates who come as messengers to assist us with solutions.
-Some of our greatest revelations come from the episodic dreams of events, places and behavior patterns emanating from experiences before we acquired our present body.
-Ways spirits connect with the living:
1. Somatic touch.
2. Personification with objects.
3. Dream recognition.
4. Transference through children.
5. Contact in familiar settings.
-Souls don't give up easily on us.
-We will see each other again some day, I know.
-Personal guides and soulmates, however they are represented, contact us from the other side if we require consolation.
-Angel-like spirits who regularly come to Earth between lives simply to help people they don't know.
-Having other relationships neither lessens nor dishonors our first love, it only validates that love, providing a state of healthy acceptance has been reached in between.
-Souls lose most of their negative emotional baggage when they shed their bodies.
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Destiny of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes III
-All roles are temporary.
-The person you love is not really gone.
-Part of your energy was left behind in the spirit world at the time of incarnation. When your love arrives back home again, you will already be there waiting with that portion of your energy which was left behind. This same energy is held in reserve for unification with the returning soul.
-In death, suddenly the soul is released and given freedom. Yet, if we have the need, souls are able to contact us on a regular basis from the spirit world.
-"I'll watch over her, but I know she is going to make it through this."
-Souls who are reaching back to comfort the living look for areas that are most receptive to their energy.
-Absence is only a change of reality and not final.
-The person you love is not really gone.
-Part of your energy was left behind in the spirit world at the time of incarnation. When your love arrives back home again, you will already be there waiting with that portion of your energy which was left behind. This same energy is held in reserve for unification with the returning soul.
-In death, suddenly the soul is released and given freedom. Yet, if we have the need, souls are able to contact us on a regular basis from the spirit world.
-"I'll watch over her, but I know she is going to make it through this."
-Souls who are reaching back to comfort the living look for areas that are most receptive to their energy.
-Absence is only a change of reality and not final.
Destiny of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes II
-Once or twice between lives we visit this group of higher beings who are a step or two above our teacher-guides.
-These masters are as close as I can come to the Creator.
-Going in front of the council is like being sent to the principal's office in school.
-Souls voluntarily select less than perfect bodies and difficult lives to address karmic debts or to work on different aspects of a lesson they have had trouble with in the past.
-Most souls accept the bodies offered to them in the selection room but a soul can reject what is offered and even delay reincarnating. Then, too a soul might ask to go to a physical planet other than Earth for a while.
-If we accept the new assignment, we are often sent to a preparation class to remind us of certain signposts and clues in the life to come, especially at those moments when primary soulmates come into our lives.
-Souls join their assigned hosts on the womb of the baby's mother sometime after the third month of pregnancy so they will have a sufficiently evolved brain to work with before term.
-"The only thing of true importance in this material life is the way we live and how we treat other people."
-These masters are as close as I can come to the Creator.
-Going in front of the council is like being sent to the principal's office in school.
-Souls voluntarily select less than perfect bodies and difficult lives to address karmic debts or to work on different aspects of a lesson they have had trouble with in the past.
-Most souls accept the bodies offered to them in the selection room but a soul can reject what is offered and even delay reincarnating. Then, too a soul might ask to go to a physical planet other than Earth for a while.
-If we accept the new assignment, we are often sent to a preparation class to remind us of certain signposts and clues in the life to come, especially at those moments when primary soulmates come into our lives.
-Souls join their assigned hosts on the womb of the baby's mother sometime after the third month of pregnancy so they will have a sufficiently evolved brain to work with before term.
-"The only thing of true importance in this material life is the way we live and how we treat other people."
Destiny of souls by Michael Newton. Quotes.
-At the moment of death, our soul rises out of its host body.
-A guiding principle in the spirit world is that wrongdoing, intentional or untintentional, on the part of all souls will need to be readdressed in some form in a future life.
-There is no hell for souls, except perhaps on Earth.
-Some lives are so difficult that the soul arrives home very tired.
-Our soul groups are respectful of what we have gone through during an incarnation.
-Homecoming is a joyous interlude.
-Age is not a guarantee of high attainment.
-Every aspect of a life is dissected, even to the extent of reverse role playing in the group, to bring greater awareness.
-There certainly is structure in the spirit world, but it exists within a sublime matrix of compassion, harmony, ethics, and morality, far beyond what we practice on Earth.
-In the spirit world, we are not forced to reincarnate or participate in group projects.
-"I have skated through many easy lives and I like it that way because I haven't really wanted to work hard. Now, that's going to change. My guide says: we are ready when you are."
-Souls have feelings of humility at having been given the opportunity to incarnate in physical form.
-A guiding principle in the spirit world is that wrongdoing, intentional or untintentional, on the part of all souls will need to be readdressed in some form in a future life.
-There is no hell for souls, except perhaps on Earth.
-Some lives are so difficult that the soul arrives home very tired.
-Our soul groups are respectful of what we have gone through during an incarnation.
-Homecoming is a joyous interlude.
-Age is not a guarantee of high attainment.
-Every aspect of a life is dissected, even to the extent of reverse role playing in the group, to bring greater awareness.
-There certainly is structure in the spirit world, but it exists within a sublime matrix of compassion, harmony, ethics, and morality, far beyond what we practice on Earth.
-In the spirit world, we are not forced to reincarnate or participate in group projects.
-"I have skated through many easy lives and I like it that way because I haven't really wanted to work hard. Now, that's going to change. My guide says: we are ready when you are."
-Souls have feelings of humility at having been given the opportunity to incarnate in physical form.
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Quotes IX
-These things I mention as a caution to young printers, and that they may be encouraged not to pollute their presses and disgrace their profession by such infamous practices, but refuse steadily, as they may see by my example that such a course of conduct will not on the whole, be injurious to their interests.
-I did not, however, aim at gaining his favor by paying any servile respect to him.
-He that has once done you a kindness, will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
-After getting the first hundred pound, it is more easy to get the second.
-Never to ask for an office, and never to refuse one when offered to him.
-Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur everyday.
-When men are employed they are best contented.
-I did not, however, aim at gaining his favor by paying any servile respect to him.
-He that has once done you a kindness, will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
-After getting the first hundred pound, it is more easy to get the second.
-Never to ask for an office, and never to refuse one when offered to him.
-Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur everyday.
-When men are employed they are best contented.
Sunday, December 23, 2018
The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Quotes VIII
-Fewer still, in public affairs, act with a view to the good of mankind.
-There seems to me at present to be great occasion for raising a United Party for Virtue, by forming the virtuous and good men of all nations into a regular body, to be governed by suitable good and wise rules, which good and wise men may probably be more unanimous in their obedience to than common people are to common laws.
-The substance of an intended creed:
That there is one God, who made all things.
That he governs the world by his providence.
That he ought to be worshiped by adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving.
But the most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.
That the soul is immortal.
And that God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
-The Society of the Free and Easy: free, as being, by the general practice and habit of the virtues, free from the dominion of vice; and particularly by the practice of industry and frugality; free from debt, which exposes a man to confinement, and a species of slavery to this creditors.
-One man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.
-Poor Richard's Almanac.
-It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.
-These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse prefixed to the Almanac of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending an auction.
-A vicious man could not be properly called a man of sense.
-There seems to me at present to be great occasion for raising a United Party for Virtue, by forming the virtuous and good men of all nations into a regular body, to be governed by suitable good and wise rules, which good and wise men may probably be more unanimous in their obedience to than common people are to common laws.
-The substance of an intended creed:
That there is one God, who made all things.
That he governs the world by his providence.
That he ought to be worshiped by adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving.
But the most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.
That the soul is immortal.
And that God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
-The Society of the Free and Easy: free, as being, by the general practice and habit of the virtues, free from the dominion of vice; and particularly by the practice of industry and frugality; free from debt, which exposes a man to confinement, and a species of slavery to this creditors.
-One man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.
-Poor Richard's Almanac.
-It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.
-These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse prefixed to the Almanac of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending an auction.
-A vicious man could not be properly called a man of sense.
The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Quotes VII
-I contrived the following method for conducting that examination. I made a little book, in which I allotted a page for each of the virtues. I ruled each page with red ink, so as to have seven columns, one for each day of the week, marking each column with a letter for the day. I crossed these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line, and in its proper column, I might mark, by a little black spot, every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue upon that day.
-I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively.
-Every part of my business should have its allotted time, one page in my little book contained the following scheme of employment for the twenty-four hours of a natural day.
-My scheme of order gave me the most trouble.
-On the whole, although I never arrived at the perfection, I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it.
-No qualities were so likely to make a poor's man fortune as those of probity and integrity.
-When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and on showing him immediately some absurdity in his proposition; and in answering I began by observing that in certain cases and circumstances his opinion would be right, but in the present case there appeared or seemed to be some difference.
-The modest way in which I proposed my opinions procured them a readier reception and less contradiction.
-I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my points.
-In reality, there is, perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
-I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively.
-Every part of my business should have its allotted time, one page in my little book contained the following scheme of employment for the twenty-four hours of a natural day.
-My scheme of order gave me the most trouble.
-On the whole, although I never arrived at the perfection, I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it.
-No qualities were so likely to make a poor's man fortune as those of probity and integrity.
-When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and on showing him immediately some absurdity in his proposition; and in answering I began by observing that in certain cases and circumstances his opinion would be right, but in the present case there appeared or seemed to be some difference.
-The modest way in which I proposed my opinions procured them a readier reception and less contradiction.
-I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my points.
-In reality, there is, perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Quotes VI
-This library afforded me the means of improvement by constant study, for which I set apart an hour or two each day.
-Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself. I spent no time in taverns, games, or frolicks of any kind; and my industry in my business continued as indefatigable as it was necessary.
-My original habits of frugality continuing.
-I never was without some religious principles; and being to be found in all the religions we had in our country, I respected them all, though with different degrees of respect, as I found them more or less mixed with other articles, which, without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, served principallly to divide us, and make us unfriendly to one another.
-It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time.
-I concluded at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our slipping; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct.
-The 13 virtues:
1. Temperance.
2. Silence.
3. Order.
4. Resolution.
5. Frugality.
6. Industry.
7. Sincerity.
8. Justice.
9. Moderation.
10. Cleanliness.
11.Tranquility.
12. Chastity.
13. Humility.
-Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself. I spent no time in taverns, games, or frolicks of any kind; and my industry in my business continued as indefatigable as it was necessary.
-My original habits of frugality continuing.
-I never was without some religious principles; and being to be found in all the religions we had in our country, I respected them all, though with different degrees of respect, as I found them more or less mixed with other articles, which, without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, served principallly to divide us, and make us unfriendly to one another.
-It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time.
-I concluded at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our slipping; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct.
-The 13 virtues:
1. Temperance.
2. Silence.
3. Order.
4. Resolution.
5. Frugality.
6. Industry.
7. Sincerity.
8. Justice.
9. Moderation.
10. Cleanliness.
11.Tranquility.
12. Chastity.
13. Humility.
Thursday, December 20, 2018
The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Quotes V
-Life is uncertain.
-I do not think that the writings of Caesar and Tacitus can be more interesting to a true judge of human nature and society.
-School and other education constantly proceed upon false principles, and show a clumsy apparatus pointed at a false mark.
-It is at youth that we plant our chief habits and prejudices.
-Why are weaker men to be deprived of such helps, when we see our race has been blundering on in the dark, almost without a guide in this particular, from the farthest trace of time?
-What more worthy of experiments and system that human life?
-Another thing demonstrated will be the propriety of every man's waiting for his time for appearing upon the stage of the world. Our sensations being very much fixed to the moment, we are apt to forget that more moments are to follow the first, and consequently that man should arrange his conduct so as to suit the whole of a life.
-Your attribution appears to have been applied to your life, and the passing moments of it have been enlivened with content and enjoyment, instead of being tormented with foolish impatience or regrets.
-Dr. Franklin praised your frugality, diligence and temperance, which he considered as a pattern for all youth; but it is singular that he should have forgotten your modesty and your disinterestedness, without which you never could have waited for your advancement, or found your situation in the mean time comfortable; which is a strong lesson to show the poverty of glory and the importance of regulating our minds.
-I do not think that the writings of Caesar and Tacitus can be more interesting to a true judge of human nature and society.
-School and other education constantly proceed upon false principles, and show a clumsy apparatus pointed at a false mark.
-It is at youth that we plant our chief habits and prejudices.
-Why are weaker men to be deprived of such helps, when we see our race has been blundering on in the dark, almost without a guide in this particular, from the farthest trace of time?
-What more worthy of experiments and system that human life?
-Another thing demonstrated will be the propriety of every man's waiting for his time for appearing upon the stage of the world. Our sensations being very much fixed to the moment, we are apt to forget that more moments are to follow the first, and consequently that man should arrange his conduct so as to suit the whole of a life.
-Your attribution appears to have been applied to your life, and the passing moments of it have been enlivened with content and enjoyment, instead of being tormented with foolish impatience or regrets.
-Dr. Franklin praised your frugality, diligence and temperance, which he considered as a pattern for all youth; but it is singular that he should have forgotten your modesty and your disinterestedness, without which you never could have waited for your advancement, or found your situation in the mean time comfortable; which is a strong lesson to show the poverty of glory and the importance of regulating our minds.
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Quotes IV
-For the industry of that Franklin, says he, is superior to anything I ever saw of the kind; I see him at him still at work when I go home from club, and he is at work again before his neighbors are out of bed.
-You may find friends to assist you. If you will take the debts of the company upon you; return to my father the hundred pound he has advanced; pay my little personal debts, and give me thirty pounds and a new saddle, I will relinquish the partnership, and leave the whole in your hands. I agreed to this proposal.
-I took care not only to be in reality industrious and frugal, but to avoid all appearances to the contrary. I dressed plainly; I was seen at no places of idle diversion. I never went out a fishing or shooting; a book, indeed, sometimes debauched me from my work, but that was seldom, snug, and gave no scandal; and, to show that I was not above my business, I sometimes brought home the paper I purchased at the stores through the streets on a wheelbarrow.
-I was not to expect money with a wife, unless with such a one as I should not otherwise think agreeable.
-You may find friends to assist you. If you will take the debts of the company upon you; return to my father the hundred pound he has advanced; pay my little personal debts, and give me thirty pounds and a new saddle, I will relinquish the partnership, and leave the whole in your hands. I agreed to this proposal.
-I took care not only to be in reality industrious and frugal, but to avoid all appearances to the contrary. I dressed plainly; I was seen at no places of idle diversion. I never went out a fishing or shooting; a book, indeed, sometimes debauched me from my work, but that was seldom, snug, and gave no scandal; and, to show that I was not above my business, I sometimes brought home the paper I purchased at the stores through the streets on a wheelbarrow.
-I was not to expect money with a wife, unless with such a one as I should not otherwise think agreeable.
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Quotes III
-I had by no means improv'd my fortune; but I had picked up some very ingenious acquaintance, whose conversation was of great advantage to me; and I had read considerably.
-I objected my want of money.
-My mind having been much more improv'd by reading.
-It may be well to let you know the then state of my mind with regard to my principles and morals, that you may see how far those influenc'd the future events of my life.
-I grew convinc'd that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life.
-We met on Friday evenings. The rules that I drew up required that every member, in his turn, should produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss'd by the company.
-Our debates were to be under the direction of a president, and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute, or desire of victory; and to prevent warmth, all expressions of postiveness in opinions, or direct contradiction, were after some time made contraband, and prohibited under small pecuniary penalties.
-Our friendship continued without interruption to his death, upward of forty years; and the club continued almost as long, and was the best school of philosophy, morality, and politics that then existed in the province.
-I objected my want of money.
-My mind having been much more improv'd by reading.
-It may be well to let you know the then state of my mind with regard to my principles and morals, that you may see how far those influenc'd the future events of my life.
-I grew convinc'd that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life.
-We met on Friday evenings. The rules that I drew up required that every member, in his turn, should produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss'd by the company.
-Our debates were to be under the direction of a president, and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute, or desire of victory; and to prevent warmth, all expressions of postiveness in opinions, or direct contradiction, were after some time made contraband, and prohibited under small pecuniary penalties.
-Our friendship continued without interruption to his death, upward of forty years; and the club continued almost as long, and was the best school of philosophy, morality, and politics that then existed in the province.
The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Quotes II
-On our way, a drunken Dutchman, who was a passenger too, fell overboard; when he was sinking, I reached through the water to his shock pate, and drew him up, so that we got him in again.
-My whole stock of cash consisted of a Dutch dollar, and about a shilling in copper. The latter I gave the people of the boat for my passage, who at first refus'd it, on account of my rowing; but I insisted on their taking it. A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.
-I went for a draught of the river water; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
-I began now to have some acquaintance among the young people of the town, that were lovers of reading, with whom I spent my evenings very pleasantly; and gaining money by my industry and frugality.
-An incident happened that sent me back again much sooner than I had intended.
-The governor gave me an ample letter, saying many flattering things of me to my father, and strongly recommending the project of my setting up at Philadelphia as a thing that must make my fortune.
-By steady industry and a prudent parsimony I might save enough by the time I was one and twenty to set me up.
-This was the second governor who had done me the honor to take notice of me; which, to a poor boy like me, was very pleasing.
-The breaking into this money of Vernon's was one of the first great errata of my life.
-Had four or five shillings to pay out of his wages every Saturday night for that muddling liquor; and expense I was free from. And thus these poor devils keep themselves always under.
-I propos'd some reasonable alterations in their chappel laws.
-My whole stock of cash consisted of a Dutch dollar, and about a shilling in copper. The latter I gave the people of the boat for my passage, who at first refus'd it, on account of my rowing; but I insisted on their taking it. A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.
-I went for a draught of the river water; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
-I began now to have some acquaintance among the young people of the town, that were lovers of reading, with whom I spent my evenings very pleasantly; and gaining money by my industry and frugality.
-An incident happened that sent me back again much sooner than I had intended.
-The governor gave me an ample letter, saying many flattering things of me to my father, and strongly recommending the project of my setting up at Philadelphia as a thing that must make my fortune.
-By steady industry and a prudent parsimony I might save enough by the time I was one and twenty to set me up.
-This was the second governor who had done me the honor to take notice of me; which, to a poor boy like me, was very pleasing.
-The breaking into this money of Vernon's was one of the first great errata of my life.
-Had four or five shillings to pay out of his wages every Saturday night for that muddling liquor; and expense I was free from. And thus these poor devils keep themselves always under.
-I propos'd some reasonable alterations in their chappel laws.
Thursday, December 13, 2018
The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Quotes
-I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-It would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.
-I disliked the trade, and had a strong inclination for the sea.
-Nothing was useful which was not honest.
-From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.
-Persons of good sense, seldom fall into it. (Arguments).
-I was frequently chid for my singularity.
-For want of modesty is want of sense.
-So, I sold some of my books to raise a little money, was taken on board privately, and as we had a fair wind, in three days I found myself in New York, near 300 miles from home, a boy of but 17, without the least recommendation to, or knowledge of any person in the place, and with very little money in my pocket.
-It would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.
-I disliked the trade, and had a strong inclination for the sea.
-Nothing was useful which was not honest.
-From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.
-Persons of good sense, seldom fall into it. (Arguments).
-I was frequently chid for my singularity.
-For want of modesty is want of sense.
-So, I sold some of my books to raise a little money, was taken on board privately, and as we had a fair wind, in three days I found myself in New York, near 300 miles from home, a boy of but 17, without the least recommendation to, or knowledge of any person in the place, and with very little money in my pocket.
Sunday, December 9, 2018
Saturday, December 8, 2018
Life itself. Quotes
-Javier, me he dado cuenta de que tú y yo no hemos hablado nunca... Hace cinco años que yo soy dueño de estas tierras... y no me recuerdo que nos hayamos dicho no más que unas pocas palabras...
[...]
Y ahora debo preguntarte: ¿por qué significa tanto para ti?
-No le sigo señor.
-Los otros hombres usan varas y mallas. Pero tú las coges a mano. Lo que sólo te permite recoger la mitad.
-Bueno, por eso trabajo el doble. Señor.
-Lo sé, lo sé. No es un crítica. Es una simple pregunta.
-¿Por qué trabajas más duro que el resto de los hombres?
-Porque creo que es la manera correcta de hacerlo, señor.
-Te cuento la historia de mi padre, de la maltratada de mi madre, y cuanto te pido que hagas lo mismo, ¿lo único que me dices que es que es la manera correcta? Vamos hombre, bébete la manzanilla y cuéntame tu historia.
-Yo soy un hombre sencillo señor. Yo no tengo ninguna historia.
Mi padre no era un hijo de la gran puta. Mi padre era un hombre divertido, que silbaba mientras trabajaba. Y yo estoy feliz de poder hacerlo también mientras trabajo. La vara y el rastrillo magullan la aceituna. Por eso yo la cojo con las manos. Es la manera correcta. Eso es todo, señor.
-Los trabajadores te quieren mucho. Te he visto contarles historias, hacerles reir.
-Soy un bocazas.
-Pero conmigo eres muy reservado.
-Porque usted es el jefe, señor.
-Yo quiero ser tu amigo.
-No, le decepcionaría como amigo.
-No, no creo.
-Ya le he dado una respuesta, señor.
-Es curioso. El resto de los hombres me aprecian y apenas me conocen. Tú acabas de escuchar mi historia y... ¿no te hace sentir aprecio por mí? No pasa nada, puedes decir lo que quieras y ser totalmente honesto.
-No me hace apreciarlo algo más, señor.
-¿Puedo preguntarte por qué?
-Yo no habría cogido el dinero señor.
-Te gustaría ser capataz. Supervisar a la gente. Y vivirías aquí.
-Con la vivienda sería suficiente. Pero tengo una condición: cuidaré sus tierras, le ayudaré que prosperen como si fueran mías, pero mi silbido es para mí y mi bocaza es para mis jornaleros. No me pida nada señor. Y a cambio, yo nunca le pediré nada a usted.
-Enough. Listen to me. Rigo. You have had many ups and downs in your life. Too many. And you will have more. This is life. And this is what it does. Life brings you to your knees. It brings you lower than you think you can go. But if you stand back up and move forward... if you go just a little farther... you will always find love. I found love in you. And my life, my story, it will continue after I am gone... Because you are my story. You are your father's story. Your uncle's.
Rigo... my body fails me. But you are me. So you go now. Give me a beautiful life. The most beautiful life ever. Yeah? And if life brings us to our knees, you stand us back up. You get up. And go farther. And find us the love. Will you do that?
-I am not sure what story I have been telling. I am not sure if it is mine... or if it is some character I have yet to meet. I am not sure of anything. All I know is that, at any moment, life will surprise me. It will bring me to my knees. And when it does, I will remind myself... I will remind myself... that I am my father... and I am my father's father. I am my mother. And I am my mother's mother. And while it may be easy to wallow in the tragedies that shape our lives, and while it is natural to focus on those unspeakable moments that bring us to our knees, we must remind ourselves that if we get up, if we take the story a little bit farther, si vamos más allá, hay amor. If we go far enough, there's love.
[...]
Y ahora debo preguntarte: ¿por qué significa tanto para ti?
-No le sigo señor.
-Los otros hombres usan varas y mallas. Pero tú las coges a mano. Lo que sólo te permite recoger la mitad.
-Bueno, por eso trabajo el doble. Señor.
-Lo sé, lo sé. No es un crítica. Es una simple pregunta.
-¿Por qué trabajas más duro que el resto de los hombres?
-Porque creo que es la manera correcta de hacerlo, señor.
-Te cuento la historia de mi padre, de la maltratada de mi madre, y cuanto te pido que hagas lo mismo, ¿lo único que me dices que es que es la manera correcta? Vamos hombre, bébete la manzanilla y cuéntame tu historia.
-Yo soy un hombre sencillo señor. Yo no tengo ninguna historia.
Mi padre no era un hijo de la gran puta. Mi padre era un hombre divertido, que silbaba mientras trabajaba. Y yo estoy feliz de poder hacerlo también mientras trabajo. La vara y el rastrillo magullan la aceituna. Por eso yo la cojo con las manos. Es la manera correcta. Eso es todo, señor.
-Los trabajadores te quieren mucho. Te he visto contarles historias, hacerles reir.
-Soy un bocazas.
-Pero conmigo eres muy reservado.
-Porque usted es el jefe, señor.
-Yo quiero ser tu amigo.
-No, le decepcionaría como amigo.
-No, no creo.
-Ya le he dado una respuesta, señor.
-Es curioso. El resto de los hombres me aprecian y apenas me conocen. Tú acabas de escuchar mi historia y... ¿no te hace sentir aprecio por mí? No pasa nada, puedes decir lo que quieras y ser totalmente honesto.
-No me hace apreciarlo algo más, señor.
-¿Puedo preguntarte por qué?
-Yo no habría cogido el dinero señor.
-Te gustaría ser capataz. Supervisar a la gente. Y vivirías aquí.
-Con la vivienda sería suficiente. Pero tengo una condición: cuidaré sus tierras, le ayudaré que prosperen como si fueran mías, pero mi silbido es para mí y mi bocaza es para mis jornaleros. No me pida nada señor. Y a cambio, yo nunca le pediré nada a usted.
-Enough. Listen to me. Rigo. You have had many ups and downs in your life. Too many. And you will have more. This is life. And this is what it does. Life brings you to your knees. It brings you lower than you think you can go. But if you stand back up and move forward... if you go just a little farther... you will always find love. I found love in you. And my life, my story, it will continue after I am gone... Because you are my story. You are your father's story. Your uncle's.
Rigo... my body fails me. But you are me. So you go now. Give me a beautiful life. The most beautiful life ever. Yeah? And if life brings us to our knees, you stand us back up. You get up. And go farther. And find us the love. Will you do that?
-I am not sure what story I have been telling. I am not sure if it is mine... or if it is some character I have yet to meet. I am not sure of anything. All I know is that, at any moment, life will surprise me. It will bring me to my knees. And when it does, I will remind myself... I will remind myself... that I am my father... and I am my father's father. I am my mother. And I am my mother's mother. And while it may be easy to wallow in the tragedies that shape our lives, and while it is natural to focus on those unspeakable moments that bring us to our knees, we must remind ourselves that if we get up, if we take the story a little bit farther, si vamos más allá, hay amor. If we go far enough, there's love.
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Handbook for teachers in Human Values Education by Ron and Suwanti Farmer. Quotes XXI
-It is our very Presence that will motivate and transform the students in our care.
-How we live our lives will become an inspiration for the young ones to follow.
-We are immortal residing for a while in a mortal body.
-When something unfavorable is happening in the classroom, it is for our own good. It is for own good.
-When we can be mindful enough, to remember often enough that we are indestructible, all loving, peaceful and just, all fear will disappear.
-We remember how we felt during an event, much more than what we were thinking at the time.
-Teachers respond positively to having their strengths recognized, particularly by those above them in the hierarchy of responsibility.
-Every mistake as an opportunity to change direction, try again, and evolve.
-The mistake cannot know of the gains that will follow.
-Always stay calm on your boat.
- BOUNCE BACK
Bad times don´t last.
Other people can help.
Unhelpful thinking makes us more upset.
Nobody is perfect.
Concentrate on positive thinking.
Everybody as disturbing thoughts. They will pass.
Blame never.
Accept things we cannot change.
Catastrophizing avoidal.
Keep things in perspective.
-The five keys to a mindful relationship:
1. Attention to the present moment.
2. Acceptance of self and other.
3. Appreciation of all of our gifts.
4. Attunement.
5. Allowing: when we let go of our fears and fixed beliefs and prejudices, we can be open to the unfolding of possibilities of the present moment.
-How we live our lives will become an inspiration for the young ones to follow.
-We are immortal residing for a while in a mortal body.
-When something unfavorable is happening in the classroom, it is for our own good. It is for own good.
-When we can be mindful enough, to remember often enough that we are indestructible, all loving, peaceful and just, all fear will disappear.
-We remember how we felt during an event, much more than what we were thinking at the time.
-Teachers respond positively to having their strengths recognized, particularly by those above them in the hierarchy of responsibility.
-Every mistake as an opportunity to change direction, try again, and evolve.
-The mistake cannot know of the gains that will follow.
-Always stay calm on your boat.
- BOUNCE BACK
Bad times don´t last.
Other people can help.
Unhelpful thinking makes us more upset.
Nobody is perfect.
Concentrate on positive thinking.
Everybody as disturbing thoughts. They will pass.
Blame never.
Accept things we cannot change.
Catastrophizing avoidal.
Keep things in perspective.
-The five keys to a mindful relationship:
1. Attention to the present moment.
2. Acceptance of self and other.
3. Appreciation of all of our gifts.
4. Attunement.
5. Allowing: when we let go of our fears and fixed beliefs and prejudices, we can be open to the unfolding of possibilities of the present moment.
Handbook for teachers in Human Values Education by Ron and Suwanti Farmer. Quotes XX
-The power of example.
-This is what brings about healing in these boys, the example of a teacher believing in and living the Human Values, regardless of the challenges to the ego that are relentless in their onslaught.
-The goal is to be an example to everyone.
-Everyone will behave themselves in the presence of a policemen; only the truly decent will behave the same out of sight of the lawman's eye.
-Presence: moral behavior that is consistent across every aspect of our lives and builds a network of neural connections in our brain and heart that grows more integrated and resilient with each exercise or our good character.
-We will not be able to love our students in the most pure way as long as we regard then as different from each other and from ourselves.
-There needs to be harmony between our thoughts, words and deeds.
-Our environment contributes enormously to our health, happiness, and ability to teach and learn.
-A bright and colorful classroom, with healthy lunch-food provided, wise sayings on wall posters and calming music at times all go a long way to creating healthy student minds and bodies.
-There is only one religion, the religion of Love.
-It is the example we set for the children in virtuous and accomplished living that plays the greatest role. As we change, the whole world changes, for we are all interconnected.
-Noticing, being open-minded, having a beginner's mind, without judgement or labeling.
-When people relax that rigid sense of bodily defined identity and open up to realizing that we are all part of the interconnected whole.
-Every dish you wash is a new dish. Tenzin Palmo.
-The more someone dislikes, insults or attacks us, the more we need to love them.
-Sometimes you think you are the mud. But when you begin to wash off some of the mud, you will be able to get a glimpse of the shiny diamond inside you.
-We are the example of adulthood in a classroom of children.
-We can replay in our memory the scene, visualizing ourselves behaving in a more wise and loving way.
-It is our thoughts that determine our actions.
-This is what brings about healing in these boys, the example of a teacher believing in and living the Human Values, regardless of the challenges to the ego that are relentless in their onslaught.
-The goal is to be an example to everyone.
-Everyone will behave themselves in the presence of a policemen; only the truly decent will behave the same out of sight of the lawman's eye.
-Presence: moral behavior that is consistent across every aspect of our lives and builds a network of neural connections in our brain and heart that grows more integrated and resilient with each exercise or our good character.
-We will not be able to love our students in the most pure way as long as we regard then as different from each other and from ourselves.
-There needs to be harmony between our thoughts, words and deeds.
-Our environment contributes enormously to our health, happiness, and ability to teach and learn.
-A bright and colorful classroom, with healthy lunch-food provided, wise sayings on wall posters and calming music at times all go a long way to creating healthy student minds and bodies.
-There is only one religion, the religion of Love.
-It is the example we set for the children in virtuous and accomplished living that plays the greatest role. As we change, the whole world changes, for we are all interconnected.
-Noticing, being open-minded, having a beginner's mind, without judgement or labeling.
-When people relax that rigid sense of bodily defined identity and open up to realizing that we are all part of the interconnected whole.
-Every dish you wash is a new dish. Tenzin Palmo.
-The more someone dislikes, insults or attacks us, the more we need to love them.
-Sometimes you think you are the mud. But when you begin to wash off some of the mud, you will be able to get a glimpse of the shiny diamond inside you.
-We are the example of adulthood in a classroom of children.
-We can replay in our memory the scene, visualizing ourselves behaving in a more wise and loving way.
-It is our thoughts that determine our actions.
Handbook for teachers in Human Values Education by Ron and Suwanti Farmer. Quotes XIX
-We live in forgetfulness, looking for happiness somewhere else. Thich Nhat Hanh.
-Being open to the present moment, without clinging to it or rejecting it, allows teachers and students to let go of the endless chattering of their mind, to be free to experience the true Self, the five Human Values.
-The mind is a product of countless neuronal pathways in the brain, many of which have become set into habitual patterns over the years.
-To become exemplary role models we will need to reprogram the mind. It requires us to make a conscious choice at every moment, as to whether to hold on to a thought, or to let go of it.
-The challenge is how to remember to remember to be aware of each thought, and to exercise our mastery over whether it stays or not.
-When we are being patient, we know that the experience unfolding before our eye of awareness has it own perfect timing. Wishing that this moment will soon pass so that we can enjoy the next is like hoping that a blooming flower on a bush will soon fade so that we can enjoy the next one to appear.
-We can trust that whatever another person says or does to us, it will be perfect for our personal growth and learning.
-Letting go is like putting down two suitcases full of old rubbish.
-When we experience in the present moment the seven qualities of pure mindfulness (non-judging, patience, trust, beginner's mind, non-striving, letting go, acceptance), we see only the best in others.
-As we begin to develop awareness of the mind, it witnesses without judgment and without comment.
-School teachers have the fate of the nation in their hands.
-It is not enough for a teacher to impart information in an efficient manner without any consideration for the moral and ethical awakening of the classroom pupils.
-Today's children are not happy. We cannot stand by while our society's vulnerable ones suffer and go astray.
-Teaching as the most noble of all professions.
-We are all cells in the one body of humanity.
-It is because as students they have gained only information without any thought of transformation to become a true human being who lives and breathes goodness, wisdom and unconditional love, with an irresistible urge to be of service to those who are struggling.
-Be the change we want to see in our students.
-The example of our own behavior that we set before others is highly observable.
-Students who feel truly listened to, heard and understood by their teacher are automatically inclined to behave in this same way towards others.
-Being open to the present moment, without clinging to it or rejecting it, allows teachers and students to let go of the endless chattering of their mind, to be free to experience the true Self, the five Human Values.
-The mind is a product of countless neuronal pathways in the brain, many of which have become set into habitual patterns over the years.
-To become exemplary role models we will need to reprogram the mind. It requires us to make a conscious choice at every moment, as to whether to hold on to a thought, or to let go of it.
-The challenge is how to remember to remember to be aware of each thought, and to exercise our mastery over whether it stays or not.
-When we are being patient, we know that the experience unfolding before our eye of awareness has it own perfect timing. Wishing that this moment will soon pass so that we can enjoy the next is like hoping that a blooming flower on a bush will soon fade so that we can enjoy the next one to appear.
-We can trust that whatever another person says or does to us, it will be perfect for our personal growth and learning.
-Letting go is like putting down two suitcases full of old rubbish.
-When we experience in the present moment the seven qualities of pure mindfulness (non-judging, patience, trust, beginner's mind, non-striving, letting go, acceptance), we see only the best in others.
-As we begin to develop awareness of the mind, it witnesses without judgment and without comment.
-School teachers have the fate of the nation in their hands.
-It is not enough for a teacher to impart information in an efficient manner without any consideration for the moral and ethical awakening of the classroom pupils.
-Today's children are not happy. We cannot stand by while our society's vulnerable ones suffer and go astray.
-Teaching as the most noble of all professions.
-We are all cells in the one body of humanity.
-It is because as students they have gained only information without any thought of transformation to become a true human being who lives and breathes goodness, wisdom and unconditional love, with an irresistible urge to be of service to those who are struggling.
-Be the change we want to see in our students.
-The example of our own behavior that we set before others is highly observable.
-Students who feel truly listened to, heard and understood by their teacher are automatically inclined to behave in this same way towards others.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Sunday, December 2, 2018
Pure Gold
Is this cold enough
Suitably calculated
Is it dark enough
Bold but understated
Is it falling over backwards
Is it straining
Does it feel like my own
Does it feel like it's out of my hands
Does it hang there uncertain, insecure
Guess it's pure gold
Virgin ears uncovered
By some shaky pen
The browbeaten unsmothered
By some vaporous intent
Now they're falling over backwards
And they're straining to hear, so I ask now
Does it feel like your own
Does it feel like it's out of your hands
Does it hang there uncertain, insecure
Guess it's pure gold
Does it feel like our own
Does it feel like it's out of our hands
Does it hang there uncertain, insecure
Guess it's pure gold
Guess it's pure gold
Guess it's pure gold
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Handbook for teachers in Human Values Education by Ron and Suwanti Farmer. Quotes XVIII
-We live in forgetfulness, looking for happiness somewhere else. Thich Nhat Hanh.
-To become exemplary role models for the five Human Values, we will need to reprogram the mind.
-Peace, love, joy and all of the other noble virtues already lie waiting within us, in full force.
-Mindfulness: being aware of, or giving attention to, the present experience.
-Letting go is like putting down two suitcases full of old rubbish.
-Our mental/emotional habits, attitudes, likes and dislikes have well-established networks of neuronal activity in the brain. It will require diligent practice in our everyday lives if we are to neutralize these customary ways of thinking that limit our perception.
-We can trust that whatever another person says or does to us, it will be perfect for our personal growth and learning.
-The way to discover the deeper levels of our innate goodness and wisdom is to steadily live a more virtuous life in an increasingly mindful way.
-Where attention goes, neural firing occurs.
-As we begin to develop awareness of the mind, it witnesses without judgment and without comment.
-It is not enough for a teacher to impart information in an efficient manner without any consideration for the moral and ethical awakening of the classroom pupils.
-Whatever you do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe.
-To become exemplary role models for the five Human Values, we will need to reprogram the mind.
-Peace, love, joy and all of the other noble virtues already lie waiting within us, in full force.
-Mindfulness: being aware of, or giving attention to, the present experience.
-Letting go is like putting down two suitcases full of old rubbish.
-Our mental/emotional habits, attitudes, likes and dislikes have well-established networks of neuronal activity in the brain. It will require diligent practice in our everyday lives if we are to neutralize these customary ways of thinking that limit our perception.
-We can trust that whatever another person says or does to us, it will be perfect for our personal growth and learning.
-The way to discover the deeper levels of our innate goodness and wisdom is to steadily live a more virtuous life in an increasingly mindful way.
-Where attention goes, neural firing occurs.
-As we begin to develop awareness of the mind, it witnesses without judgment and without comment.
-It is not enough for a teacher to impart information in an efficient manner without any consideration for the moral and ethical awakening of the classroom pupils.
-Whatever you do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe.
Handbook for teachers in Human Values Education by Ron and Suwanti Farmer. Quotes XVII
-The Human Values Education teacher will no be proselytizing about any religion or creed, but, rather, aiming to perfect oneself so that students might more readily become perfect themselves.
-We are all diamonds covered with mud. You are not the mud, your are the diamond.
-You are a King who has been asleep.
-One must always choose the path with heart in order to be at one's best. Carlos Castaneda.
-Our natural inclination is to be selfless, generous and loving.
-The process of education has to inspire.
-Present education is more about preparation for joining the workforce than about how to reach one's full potential as a human being.
-Quality teaching places more emphasis on student engagement with learning and less emphasis on linear and developmental notions of learning. Learning is then regarded as something to which students will gravitate quiet naturally when it is meaningful and when the learning activities allow opportunities for student input, discussion or collaboration.
-Learning is at its best when we are happy and content within our social relationships, when we ourselves have played a part in the choice of what is to be learned; when we can apply what we have been learning to real-world situations; and when our feeling of self-worth is enhanced by helping others with the knowledge we have gained.
-Instead of teaching curriculum content, it is more effective to provide conditions whereby the students can learn the material using more of their own initiatives, with assistance provided where necessary.
-The character strengths come into play when a teacher dares to run the risk of treating students as human beings with enormous human potential.
-If you serve without love, it is not service at all. Sathya Sai Baba.
-There is much to be gained from putting in effort in a neurological sense. Our brain develops neuronal circuits that can respond up to 3000 times faster when we strive to persevere and do our very best.
-Every part of the content of the curriculum can be utilized as opportunities for the Human Values to come alive in the students.
-We are all diamonds covered with mud. You are not the mud, your are the diamond.
-You are a King who has been asleep.
-One must always choose the path with heart in order to be at one's best. Carlos Castaneda.
-Our natural inclination is to be selfless, generous and loving.
-The process of education has to inspire.
-Present education is more about preparation for joining the workforce than about how to reach one's full potential as a human being.
-Quality teaching places more emphasis on student engagement with learning and less emphasis on linear and developmental notions of learning. Learning is then regarded as something to which students will gravitate quiet naturally when it is meaningful and when the learning activities allow opportunities for student input, discussion or collaboration.
-Learning is at its best when we are happy and content within our social relationships, when we ourselves have played a part in the choice of what is to be learned; when we can apply what we have been learning to real-world situations; and when our feeling of self-worth is enhanced by helping others with the knowledge we have gained.
-Instead of teaching curriculum content, it is more effective to provide conditions whereby the students can learn the material using more of their own initiatives, with assistance provided where necessary.
-The character strengths come into play when a teacher dares to run the risk of treating students as human beings with enormous human potential.
-If you serve without love, it is not service at all. Sathya Sai Baba.
-There is much to be gained from putting in effort in a neurological sense. Our brain develops neuronal circuits that can respond up to 3000 times faster when we strive to persevere and do our very best.
-Every part of the content of the curriculum can be utilized as opportunities for the Human Values to come alive in the students.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Handbook for teachers in Human Values Education by Ron and Suwanti Farmer. Quotes XVI
-Every child who pushes the button triggering impatience, agitation, disappointment or dislike, is actually a gift, provided there is not turning away from facing the storm yet again.
-Each time we persevered and tried again, our skill level rose significantly.
-We can regard all of our failures to become living examples of unbroken equanimity and pure love as essential for our growth and turn towards these high goals with renewed faith and perseverance.
-A very high standard for the students necessarily involves embracing mistakes, setting the bar higher each time so that the mountain might appear, to the logical mind, to be impossible to climb.
-Plasticity is a core feature of the brain throughout life.
-Children learn well when the teacher:
1. Has a warm and loving relationship with each student.
2. Ensures that each child feels safe and protected.
3. Creates a learning atmosphere that produces optimal feelings of well being in each student.
4. Takes account of and has empathy with the fears, self-doubts, and other negative emotions
-For a child to attain their own unique level of human excellence, they will need to have optimized learning in their physical, social, moral and spiritual spheres as well.
-If your emotional abilities are not in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far. Goleman.
-Happy children who feel listened to and cared about are more able to pay attention to, understand, learn from and remember what the teacher is presenting to them.
-This innate moral sense begins to be attenuated as the child grows older.
-Whenever you feel angry, think of Love, develop thoughts of Love in your heart. You will have Peace.
-Life is Love.
-If the thought is in harmony with the conscience and each one of the five Human Values, it is to be allowed to remain; if the thought transgresses any of these moral guidelines, it is to be let go.
-The heart has reasons that reason cannot understand.
-Spiritual Heart does exist.
-When Human Values Education speaks of Peaceful Mind, Open Heart, we are referring to a way of living that has the mind becoming the servant of the Spiritual Heart.
-Each time we persevered and tried again, our skill level rose significantly.
-We can regard all of our failures to become living examples of unbroken equanimity and pure love as essential for our growth and turn towards these high goals with renewed faith and perseverance.
-A very high standard for the students necessarily involves embracing mistakes, setting the bar higher each time so that the mountain might appear, to the logical mind, to be impossible to climb.
-Plasticity is a core feature of the brain throughout life.
-Children learn well when the teacher:
1. Has a warm and loving relationship with each student.
2. Ensures that each child feels safe and protected.
3. Creates a learning atmosphere that produces optimal feelings of well being in each student.
4. Takes account of and has empathy with the fears, self-doubts, and other negative emotions
-For a child to attain their own unique level of human excellence, they will need to have optimized learning in their physical, social, moral and spiritual spheres as well.
-If your emotional abilities are not in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far. Goleman.
-Happy children who feel listened to and cared about are more able to pay attention to, understand, learn from and remember what the teacher is presenting to them.
-This innate moral sense begins to be attenuated as the child grows older.
-Whenever you feel angry, think of Love, develop thoughts of Love in your heart. You will have Peace.
-Life is Love.
-If the thought is in harmony with the conscience and each one of the five Human Values, it is to be allowed to remain; if the thought transgresses any of these moral guidelines, it is to be let go.
-The heart has reasons that reason cannot understand.
-Spiritual Heart does exist.
-When Human Values Education speaks of Peaceful Mind, Open Heart, we are referring to a way of living that has the mind becoming the servant of the Spiritual Heart.
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Handbook for teachers in Human Values Education by Ron and Suwanti Farmer. Quotes XV
-Every conceivable aspect of human functioning are all dependent upon neurons, each of which has a specific function.
-Mirror neurons have been identified as being responsible for imitation learning.
-When we observe somebody behaving in a particular way, our mirror neurons begin setting up patterns of reactivity that ensure we will mirror, mimic or imitate what our senses are taking in.
-When neurons in the brain are not used, if they don't fire off, not connected to other neurons, they die off, on great numbers, in the millions. Research shows that experiences help our neurons to fire and rewire in new adaptive and resilient ways.
-To the extent that we are teachers who inspire, students will continue to grow the neuronal pathways of living the Human Values they observe in us, each time they recall something we did or said, or if they imagine themselves emulating our good character.
-Fill the heart with Love, and distribute that Love to all. Love grows with every gift of Love.
-Your thoughts, words and deeds will shape others, and theirs will shape you.
-Your heart is inherently filled with Love. Every cell in the human body is filled with Love. It is this micro-cosmic Love that fills the entire Cosmos.
-The more we learn, the easier is to learn.
-A teaching style that is only concerned with the curriculum content, without any passion and enthusiasm for the subject, and lacking any depth and quality of relationship with the students, will be inhibiting students' potential for learning and recall.
-Although perseverance can be uncomfortable at first, students need to know that pushing on is also a skill to be developed and that, each time we try once more, it gets easier to persevere.
-Mirror neurons have been identified as being responsible for imitation learning.
-When we observe somebody behaving in a particular way, our mirror neurons begin setting up patterns of reactivity that ensure we will mirror, mimic or imitate what our senses are taking in.
-When neurons in the brain are not used, if they don't fire off, not connected to other neurons, they die off, on great numbers, in the millions. Research shows that experiences help our neurons to fire and rewire in new adaptive and resilient ways.
-To the extent that we are teachers who inspire, students will continue to grow the neuronal pathways of living the Human Values they observe in us, each time they recall something we did or said, or if they imagine themselves emulating our good character.
-Fill the heart with Love, and distribute that Love to all. Love grows with every gift of Love.
-Your thoughts, words and deeds will shape others, and theirs will shape you.
-Your heart is inherently filled with Love. Every cell in the human body is filled with Love. It is this micro-cosmic Love that fills the entire Cosmos.
-The more we learn, the easier is to learn.
-A teaching style that is only concerned with the curriculum content, without any passion and enthusiasm for the subject, and lacking any depth and quality of relationship with the students, will be inhibiting students' potential for learning and recall.
-Although perseverance can be uncomfortable at first, students need to know that pushing on is also a skill to be developed and that, each time we try once more, it gets easier to persevere.
Handbook for teachers in Human Values Education by Ron and Suwanti Farmer. Quotes XIV
-Identifying students' Signature Strengths and encourage them to maximize their practical expression has become an essential component of what Seligman now calls positive education.
-Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the thing I can and the wisdom to know the difference. R. Niebuhr.
-Resilient children shared three categories:
1. Character attributes of the child.
2. Family cohesion and warmth.
3. The use of external support systems by parents and children.
-The five C's of resilient coping:
1. Calm.
2. Clarity.
3. Connection.
4. Competence.
5. Courage.
-When we are present in interacting with another person, we give them our full attention and receive their communication openly, without judgment, and with curiosity.
-55% of all emotional meaning is conveyed through facial expressions and body language; another 38% is communicated through tone and rhythm of voice; only 7% is communicated through words. Mehrabian.
-If we can feel what another person feels, we can be more understanding, more loving, more compassionate.
-Benefits of high-quality service learning:
1. Student engagement.
2. Improves higher order thinking skills.
3. Develops important personal and social skills for young people.
4. Develops stronger connections with their schools, communities and society.
-The Seven Teaching Strategies of Human Values Education:
1. Quiet time.
2. Mindfulness.
3. Wise sayings.
4. Story telling.
5. Peaceful mind, open heart.
6. Service learning.
7. Unity of faiths.
-Our sufferings comes from wanting things of this world.
-Our social ans physical environment, what comes into us through the five senses, can change the function and structure of our brain, which in turn influences how we think and what we do.
-The more often we think and act in a virtuous way, the more will our brains be restructured so as to facilitate this more noble way of thinking and behaving.
-See what is good
Think what is good
Hear what is good
Talk what is good
Do only good
-Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the thing I can and the wisdom to know the difference. R. Niebuhr.
-Resilient children shared three categories:
1. Character attributes of the child.
2. Family cohesion and warmth.
3. The use of external support systems by parents and children.
-The five C's of resilient coping:
1. Calm.
2. Clarity.
3. Connection.
4. Competence.
5. Courage.
-When we are present in interacting with another person, we give them our full attention and receive their communication openly, without judgment, and with curiosity.
-55% of all emotional meaning is conveyed through facial expressions and body language; another 38% is communicated through tone and rhythm of voice; only 7% is communicated through words. Mehrabian.
-If we can feel what another person feels, we can be more understanding, more loving, more compassionate.
-Benefits of high-quality service learning:
1. Student engagement.
2. Improves higher order thinking skills.
3. Develops important personal and social skills for young people.
4. Develops stronger connections with their schools, communities and society.
-The Seven Teaching Strategies of Human Values Education:
1. Quiet time.
2. Mindfulness.
3. Wise sayings.
4. Story telling.
5. Peaceful mind, open heart.
6. Service learning.
7. Unity of faiths.
-Our sufferings comes from wanting things of this world.
-Our social ans physical environment, what comes into us through the five senses, can change the function and structure of our brain, which in turn influences how we think and what we do.
-The more often we think and act in a virtuous way, the more will our brains be restructured so as to facilitate this more noble way of thinking and behaving.
-See what is good
Think what is good
Hear what is good
Talk what is good
Do only good
Handbook for teachers in Human Values Education by Ron and Suwanti Farmer. Quotes XIII
-Regardless of the challenges facing us, we are safe if we can sit in our boat, regulating how we think, feel and move.
-Defusion lets us give less importance to our habitual thinking patterns, to distance ourselves from and to let go of unhelpful thoughts, beliefs and memories.
-We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness. St. Catherine of Genoa.
-The what is is the most holy. Alan Watts.
-Acceptance allows us to make room for painful feelings, urges and sensations, allowing them to com and go without a struggle.
-If we can dare to live according to the values and virtues that resonate strongly within us, powerful things begin to happen.
-It requires conviction and courage to commit ourselves to living the values we believe in, wherever that path may take us.
-You have to ask yourself the question: Who am I? This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem, and you will solve all other problems thereby. Ramana Maharshi.
-When we know what action needs to be taken, begin as soon as possible.
When we know what activity we should not be engaging in, cease doing it immediately.
When we are not sure what to do, wait.
-Our Signature Strengths are those of the 24 Character Strengths that we have rated as being the most prominent in our attitudes and behavior today.
-The 24 Character Strengths:
WISDOM
1. Creativity
2. Curiosity
3. Judgment
5. Love of learning
COURAGE
6. Bravery
7. Honesty
8. Perseverance
9. Zest
HUMANITY
10. Kindness
11. Love
12. Social intelligence
JUSTICE
13. Fairness
14. Leadership
15. Teamwork
TEMPERANCE
16. Forgiveness
17. Humility
18. Prudence
19. Self-regulation
TRASCENDENCE
20. Appreciation of beauty
21. Gratitude
22. Hope
23. Humor
24. Spirituality
-Defusion lets us give less importance to our habitual thinking patterns, to distance ourselves from and to let go of unhelpful thoughts, beliefs and memories.
-We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness. St. Catherine of Genoa.
-The what is is the most holy. Alan Watts.
-Acceptance allows us to make room for painful feelings, urges and sensations, allowing them to com and go without a struggle.
-If we can dare to live according to the values and virtues that resonate strongly within us, powerful things begin to happen.
-It requires conviction and courage to commit ourselves to living the values we believe in, wherever that path may take us.
-You have to ask yourself the question: Who am I? This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem, and you will solve all other problems thereby. Ramana Maharshi.
-When we know what action needs to be taken, begin as soon as possible.
When we know what activity we should not be engaging in, cease doing it immediately.
When we are not sure what to do, wait.
-Our Signature Strengths are those of the 24 Character Strengths that we have rated as being the most prominent in our attitudes and behavior today.
-The 24 Character Strengths:
WISDOM
1. Creativity
2. Curiosity
3. Judgment
5. Love of learning
COURAGE
6. Bravery
7. Honesty
8. Perseverance
9. Zest
HUMANITY
10. Kindness
11. Love
12. Social intelligence
JUSTICE
13. Fairness
14. Leadership
15. Teamwork
TEMPERANCE
16. Forgiveness
17. Humility
18. Prudence
19. Self-regulation
TRASCENDENCE
20. Appreciation of beauty
21. Gratitude
22. Hope
23. Humor
24. Spirituality
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