Friday, September 18, 2020
Friday, September 4, 2020
Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes VII
-Habits+Deliberate practice = Mastery.
-Career Best Effort Program implemented by Pat Riley in the Lakers in the 80's. Stats divided by minutes played give you the coefficient of performance.
-The way to be successful is to learn how to do things right, then to do them the same way every time.
-Power of reflection and review.
-Improvement is not just about learning habits, it is also about fine-tuning them.
-You don't want to keep practicing a habit if it becomes ineffective.
-Around September of each year I conduct an Integrity report to revisit my core values and reflect on my identity and how I can work toward being the type of person I wish to become.
-Worrying too much about every daily choice is like looking at yourself in the mirror from an inch away.
-Periodic reflection and review is like viewing yourself in the mirror from a conversational distance. You can see the important changes you should make without losing sight of the bigger picture.
-Keep your identity small. The more you let a single belief define you, the less capable you are of adapting when life challenges you.
-Everything is impermanent.
-The holy grail of habit change is not a single one percent improvement, but a thousand of them.
-Gradually, as you continue to layer small changes on top of one another, the scales of life start to move. Each improvement is like adding a grain of sand to the positive side of the scale.
-Success is not a goal, it is a system to improve, an endless process to refine.
-The secret to getting results that last it to never stop making improvements.
-Happiness is the absence of desire.
-Peace occurs when you don't turn your observations into problems.
-Being curious is better than being smart.
-Emotions drive behavior.
-Reward is on the other side of sacrifice.
-Being poor is not having too little. It is wanting more.
-If your wants outpace your likes, you'll always be unsatisfied. Your are perpetually putting more weight on the problem than the solution.
Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes VI
-People are borne with different abilities.
-Genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
-How do I figure out where the odds are in my favor? How do I identify the opportunities and habits that are right for me? The first place we will look for an answer is by understanding your personality.
-When you can't win by being better, you can win by being different.
-What do the really successful people do that most don't? The ones who can handle the boredom of training every day.
-It all comes down to passion.
-The greatest threat to success is not failure, but boredom.
-You have to fall in love with boredom
-Stepping up when it's annoying or painful or draining to do so, that's what makes the difference between a professional and an amateur.
-When a habit is truly important to you, you have to be willing to stick to it in any mood.
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes V
-The secret is to always stay below the point where it feels like work.
-The best way to break a bad habit is to make it impractical to do.
-When the immediate consequence is favorable, the later consequences are disastrous, and vice versa.
-Incentives can start a habit. Identity sustains a habit.
-Show up and add to the streak.
-The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
-This is a distinguishing feature between winners and losers. Anyone can have a bad performance, a bad workout, or a bad day at work. But when successful people fail, they rebound quickly. The breaking of a habit doesn't matter if the reclaiming of it is fast.
-You don't realize how valuable it is to just show up on your bad days. Lost days hurt you more than successful days help you.
-Never interrupt it unnecessarily.
-Sluggish days and bad workouts maintain the compound gains you accrued from previous good days. Simply doing something, ten squats, five sprints, a push-up, anything really, is huge. Don't put up a zero. Don't let losses eat into your compounding.
-It's easy to train when you feel good, but it's crucial to show up when you don't feel like it. Going to the gym for five minutes may not improve your performance, but reaffirms your identity.
-When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes IV
-It is the anticipation of the reward, not the fulfillment of it, that gets us to take action.
-Our friends and family provide a sort of invisible peer pressure that pulls us in their direction.
-Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself. You'll rise together.
-Humans everywhere pursue power, prestige and status.
-Saving money is often associated with sacrifice. However, you can associate it with freedom rather than limitation if you realize one simple truth: living below your current means increases your future means. The money you save this month increases your purchasing power next month.
-You can reframe 'I am nervous' to 'I am excited and I am getting an adrenaline rush to help me concentrate'.
-If you want to master a habit, the key is to start with repetition, not perfection.
-Habits form with frequency, not time.
-Habits are easier to build when they fit into the flow of your life.
-Create an environment where doing the right thing is as easy as possible.
-The purpose of resetting each room is not simply to clean up after the last action, but to prepare for the next action.
-The greater the friction, the lest likely the habit.
-The point is to master the habit of showing up.
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes III
-Try, fail, learn, try differently.
-We can't always explain what it is we are learning, but learning is happening all along the way.
-You are much more than your conscious self.
-We must begin the process of behavior change with awareness.
-Many of our failures in performance are largely attributively to a lack of self-awareness.
-Does this behavior help me become the type of person I wish to be?
-Hearing your bad habits spoken aloud makes the consequences seem more real.
-A fresh start feels motivating.
-No behavior happens in isolation. Each action becomes a cue that triggers the next behavior.
-Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.
-Making a better decision is easy and natural when the cues for good habits are right in front of you.
-Environment design allows you to take back control and become the architect of your life. Be the designer of your world, and not merely the consumer of it.
-Habits can be easier to change in a different environment.
-Make the cues of your good habits obvious, and the cues of your bad habits invisible.
Atomic habits my James Clear. Quotes II
-Achieving a goal only changes your life for the moment. What we really need to change are the systems that cause those results.
-The more pride you have in a particular aspect of your identity, the more motivated you will be to maintain the habits associated with it.
-True behavior change is identity change.
-Progress requires unlearning. Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
-What is the type of person that could get the outcome I want?
-The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
-You have the power to change your beliefs about yourself. Your identity is not set in stone.
-Habits are not about having something. They are about becoming someone.
Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes.
-I knew that if things were going to improve, I was the one responsible for making it happen.
-Changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you are willing to stick with them for years.
-Anything wise in these pages you should credit to the many experts who preceded me. Anything foolish assume it is my error.
-If you broke down anything you know about riding a bicycle, and then improve it by 1 per cent, you will get a significant increase when you put them all together.
-If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you'll end up thirty seven times better by the time you're done.
-Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.
-You get what you repeat.
-Understanding the details is crucial.
-The score takes care of itself.
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Gospel of Saint John the Baptist. Quotes II
-A quienes perdonéis los pecados, les serán perdonados; a quienes se los retengáis, les serán retenidos.
-Has creído porque has visto. Dichosos los que creen sin haber visto.
-Salí del Padre y vine al mundo; de nuevo dejo el mundo y vuelvo al Padre.
-Que todos sean una sola cosa.
-Yo en ellos y tú en mí, para que sean perfectos en la unidad.
-La paz os dejo, mi paz os doy.
-Amaos unos a otros.
-Creedlo al menos por las obras mismas.
-El que ama su vida la perderá; el que odia su vida en este mundo, la conservará para la vida eterna.
-Has creído porque has visto. Dichosos los que creen sin haber visto.
-Salí del Padre y vine al mundo; de nuevo dejo el mundo y vuelvo al Padre.
-Que todos sean una sola cosa.
-Yo en ellos y tú en mí, para que sean perfectos en la unidad.
-La paz os dejo, mi paz os doy.
-Amaos unos a otros.
-Creedlo al menos por las obras mismas.
-El que ama su vida la perderá; el que odia su vida en este mundo, la conservará para la vida eterna.
Gospel of Saint John the Baptist. Quotes.
-Porque tanto amó Dios al mundo que dio a su único hijo para que quien crea en él no perezca, sino que tenga vida eterna. Pues Dios, no envió a su hijo al mundo para condenar al mundo, sino para que el mundo se salve por él.
-El que obra mal odio la luz y no va a la luz para que no se descubran sus obras. Pero el que practica la verdad va a la luz, para que se vean sus obras que están hechas como Dios quiere.
-El hombre no puede apropiarse de nada si Dios no se lo da.
-Ningún profeta es bien considerado en su propio pais.
-Si yo testificara de mí mismo, mi testimonio no sería verdadero.
-El espíritu es el que da la vida. La carne no sirve para nada.
-¿Cómo sabe tanto sin haber estudiado?
-No juzguéis por las apariencias.
-El que de vosotros no tenga pecado que tire la primera piedra.
-He venido a este mundo para que los que no ven vean, y los que ven se queden ciegos.
-Si no hago las obras de mi Padre, no me creáis; pero si las hago, aunque no me creáis a mí, creed en las obras para que sepáis y reconozcáis que el Padre está en mí y yo en el Padre.
-Ahora estoy profundamente angustiado. ¿Y qué voy a decir? ¿Pediré al Padre que me libre de esta hora? No, pues para esto precisamente he llegado a esta hora.
-Si me amais, os alegraréis que me vaya al Padre, porque el Padre es mayor que yo.
-Amaos unos a otros como yo os he amado.
-El criado no es más que su amo.
-El que obra mal odio la luz y no va a la luz para que no se descubran sus obras. Pero el que practica la verdad va a la luz, para que se vean sus obras que están hechas como Dios quiere.
-El hombre no puede apropiarse de nada si Dios no se lo da.
-Ningún profeta es bien considerado en su propio pais.
-Si yo testificara de mí mismo, mi testimonio no sería verdadero.
-El espíritu es el que da la vida. La carne no sirve para nada.
-¿Cómo sabe tanto sin haber estudiado?
-No juzguéis por las apariencias.
-El que de vosotros no tenga pecado que tire la primera piedra.
-He venido a este mundo para que los que no ven vean, y los que ven se queden ciegos.
-Si no hago las obras de mi Padre, no me creáis; pero si las hago, aunque no me creáis a mí, creed en las obras para que sepáis y reconozcáis que el Padre está en mí y yo en el Padre.
-Ahora estoy profundamente angustiado. ¿Y qué voy a decir? ¿Pediré al Padre que me libre de esta hora? No, pues para esto precisamente he llegado a esta hora.
-Si me amais, os alegraréis que me vaya al Padre, porque el Padre es mayor que yo.
-Amaos unos a otros como yo os he amado.
-El criado no es más que su amo.
Friday, May 8, 2020
Sirácida. Frases V
-Los pájaros se juntan con sus iguales.
-Muchos caen por la espada, pero muchos más por la lengua.
-Presta al prójimo en su necesidad y devuelve a tiempo lo prestado.
-Conténtate con lo poco o lo mucho.
-El que ama a su hijo no le escatimará los azotes.
-No hay felicidad superior al gozo del corazón.
-Más vale la muerte que vida amargada.
-La vida del hombre es el gozo del corazón, y su alegría alarga los días.
-Cuando ofrezcas algo, hazlo con cara de alegría.
-El hombre que ayuna por sus pecados y luego los vuelve a cometer, ¿quién escuchará su plegaría y qué provecho sacará de sus penitencias?
-Aconséjate de hombres piadosos.
-La sabiduría del sabio crece en las horas libres.
-Conserva los discursos de los hombres famosos y penetra en las sutilezas de las parábolas.
-Todas las obras del Señor son buenas, y Él a su tiempo, atiende a cada necesidad.
-Hombre que mira a mesa ajena con ansia, vive una vida que no debe tenerse como vida.
-Haced vuestra tarea antes del tiempo fijado y en su día Él os dará la recompensa.
-Muchos caen por la espada, pero muchos más por la lengua.
-Presta al prójimo en su necesidad y devuelve a tiempo lo prestado.
-Conténtate con lo poco o lo mucho.
-El que ama a su hijo no le escatimará los azotes.
-No hay felicidad superior al gozo del corazón.
-Más vale la muerte que vida amargada.
-La vida del hombre es el gozo del corazón, y su alegría alarga los días.
-Cuando ofrezcas algo, hazlo con cara de alegría.
-El hombre que ayuna por sus pecados y luego los vuelve a cometer, ¿quién escuchará su plegaría y qué provecho sacará de sus penitencias?
-Aconséjate de hombres piadosos.
-La sabiduría del sabio crece en las horas libres.
-Conserva los discursos de los hombres famosos y penetra en las sutilezas de las parábolas.
-Todas las obras del Señor son buenas, y Él a su tiempo, atiende a cada necesidad.
-Hombre que mira a mesa ajena con ansia, vive una vida que no debe tenerse como vida.
-Haced vuestra tarea antes del tiempo fijado y en su día Él os dará la recompensa.
Sirácida Frases IV
-Los hombres son todos polvo y ceniza.
-Cuando el hombre termina, entonces está comenzando. Cuando se detiene, queda desconcertado.
-Hijo, tus favores no los acompañes de reproches, ni tus obsequios de palabras amargas. ¿Es que el rocío no templa el hardor del sol?
-Acuérdate de los tiempos de penuria en los días de abundancia, de la pobreza y miseria en los días de riqueza.
-No te empobrezcas banqueteando con dinero prestado cuando nada queda en tu bolsa.
-El obrero bebedor nunca se hará rico.
-El hombre sabio callará hasta el momento oportuno.
-Hay éxitos que el hombre encuentra en el infortunio y hay hallazgos imprevistos que se truecan en daño.
-El duelo por un muerto dura siete días pero el del necio y el malvado todos los días de su vida.
-El maderamen bien ajustado de una edificación no es desencajado por un terremoto, así el corazón
resuelto tras madura reflexión no vacila en ningún momento.
-La rica experiencia es la corana del anciano.
-Dichoso el marido de una mujer buena.
-Cuando el hombre termina, entonces está comenzando. Cuando se detiene, queda desconcertado.
-Hijo, tus favores no los acompañes de reproches, ni tus obsequios de palabras amargas. ¿Es que el rocío no templa el hardor del sol?
-Acuérdate de los tiempos de penuria en los días de abundancia, de la pobreza y miseria en los días de riqueza.
-No te empobrezcas banqueteando con dinero prestado cuando nada queda en tu bolsa.
-El obrero bebedor nunca se hará rico.
-El hombre sabio callará hasta el momento oportuno.
-Hay éxitos que el hombre encuentra en el infortunio y hay hallazgos imprevistos que se truecan en daño.
-El duelo por un muerto dura siete días pero el del necio y el malvado todos los días de su vida.
-El maderamen bien ajustado de una edificación no es desencajado por un terremoto, así el corazón
resuelto tras madura reflexión no vacila en ningún momento.
-La rica experiencia es la corana del anciano.
-Dichoso el marido de una mujer buena.
Sirácida. Frases III
-No alabes a nadie porque el hombre será reconocido por su fin.
-¿Quién se compadecerá del encantador herido por la serpiente y del que anda con fieras?
-El rico comete injusticia y encima presume. El pobre sufre una injusticia y aún debe excusarse.
-Júntate con tus iguales.
-No te tomes la libertad de intimar con el rico, ni te fíes de su palabrería, porque con su verborrea te pondrá a prueba y entre sonrisas te irá sonsacando.
-¿Cómo se podrían juntar el lobo y el cordero? Sería igual que unir al justo con el injusto.
-La humildad es repulsiva para el orgulloso, y el pobre es repulsivo para el rico.
-Cuando el rico habla, todos callan y ensalzan hasta las nubes su buen criterio.
-El corazón del hombre se refleja en su cara.
-Hijo, recuerda que la muerte no tarda y que no te han dicho cuando vas a morir.
-Antes de morir, haz bien al amigo, según tus posibilidades.
-No te prives de un día feíz.
-Dichoso el hombre que busca la sabiduría y que discurre con inteligencia que
medita en su corazón sobre sus caminos.
-El Señor creó al hombre de la tierra y de nuevo le hará volver a ella. Le señaló un número preciso de días y tiempo fijo.
-¿Quién se compadecerá del encantador herido por la serpiente y del que anda con fieras?
-El rico comete injusticia y encima presume. El pobre sufre una injusticia y aún debe excusarse.
-Júntate con tus iguales.
-No te tomes la libertad de intimar con el rico, ni te fíes de su palabrería, porque con su verborrea te pondrá a prueba y entre sonrisas te irá sonsacando.
-¿Cómo se podrían juntar el lobo y el cordero? Sería igual que unir al justo con el injusto.
-La humildad es repulsiva para el orgulloso, y el pobre es repulsivo para el rico.
-Cuando el rico habla, todos callan y ensalzan hasta las nubes su buen criterio.
-El corazón del hombre se refleja en su cara.
-Hijo, recuerda que la muerte no tarda y que no te han dicho cuando vas a morir.
-Antes de morir, haz bien al amigo, según tus posibilidades.
-No te prives de un día feíz.
-Dichoso el hombre que busca la sabiduría y que discurre con inteligencia que
medita en su corazón sobre sus caminos.
-El Señor creó al hombre de la tierra y de nuevo le hará volver a ella. Le señaló un número preciso de días y tiempo fijo.
Sirácida. Frases II
-Hay amigos de ocasión que no te son fieles en el día de la tribulación.
-Un amigo fiel es escudo poderoso, y el que lo encuentra haya un tesoro.
-Honra a tu padre con todo tu corazón, y no olvides los dolores de tu madre. Acuérdate que fuieste engendrado por ellos. ¿Cómo podrás pagarles lo que hicieron por ti?
-En todas tus obras acuérdate del final, y no pecarás jamás.
-Si prestaste, dalo por perdido. No salgas fiador más allá de tus posibilidades.
-Aparta tus ojos de la mujer bonita, y no te fijes en belleza ajena.
-No te sientes jamás junto a mujer casada, ni te pongas con ella a la mesa a beber vino.
-No envidies la gloria del pecador.
-No tengas envidia del éxito de los malvados.
-Según el governante de la ciudad, asi sus subordinados, y según el que rige la ciudad, así sus habitantes.
-El principio de la soberbia es el pecado.
-El que es honrado en la pobreza, ¡cuánto más lo será en la riqueza!
-No alabes al hombre por su hermosura, y no desprecies a nadie por su aspecto.
-Bienes y males, vida y muerte, pobreza y riqueza, vienen del Señor.
-En el día de los bienes, se olvidan los males, y en el día de los males no se recuerdan los bienes.
-Un amigo fiel es escudo poderoso, y el que lo encuentra haya un tesoro.
-Honra a tu padre con todo tu corazón, y no olvides los dolores de tu madre. Acuérdate que fuieste engendrado por ellos. ¿Cómo podrás pagarles lo que hicieron por ti?
-En todas tus obras acuérdate del final, y no pecarás jamás.
-Si prestaste, dalo por perdido. No salgas fiador más allá de tus posibilidades.
-Aparta tus ojos de la mujer bonita, y no te fijes en belleza ajena.
-No te sientes jamás junto a mujer casada, ni te pongas con ella a la mesa a beber vino.
-No envidies la gloria del pecador.
-No tengas envidia del éxito de los malvados.
-Según el governante de la ciudad, asi sus subordinados, y según el que rige la ciudad, así sus habitantes.
-El principio de la soberbia es el pecado.
-El que es honrado en la pobreza, ¡cuánto más lo será en la riqueza!
-No alabes al hombre por su hermosura, y no desprecies a nadie por su aspecto.
-Bienes y males, vida y muerte, pobreza y riqueza, vienen del Señor.
-En el día de los bienes, se olvidan los males, y en el día de los males no se recuerdan los bienes.
Siracida. Frases.
-No te ensalces a ti mismo.
-Endereza tu corazón y mantente firme, en tiempo de infortunio, no te inquietes.
-Todo cuanto te sobrevenga, acéptalo y en los reveses de la prueba, sé paciente.
-El que honra al padre, repara su pecado.
-Hijo, ayuda a tu padre en su vejez, y no le des disgustos durante su vida.
Si llega a perder la razón, sé indulgente con él, no le afrentes tú, que están en pleno vigor.
-Cuanto más grande seas, más de has de abajar.
-La sabiduría desea un oído atento.
-Arranca al oprimido de mano del opresor, no te acobardes al hacer justicia.
-Hay una vergüenza que conduce al pecado y hay otra que es gloria y favor.
-No dejes de hablar cuando sea necesario.
-No te sometas al estúpido, ni guardes miramientos con el poderoso.
-No seas como león en tu casa, ni altanero con tus criados.
-Sé pronto para oír, y lento en tu respuesta.
-No te entregues a los caprichos de la pasión.
-Que sean muchos tus amigos, pero uno entre mil tu consejero.
-Endereza tu corazón y mantente firme, en tiempo de infortunio, no te inquietes.
-Todo cuanto te sobrevenga, acéptalo y en los reveses de la prueba, sé paciente.
-El que honra al padre, repara su pecado.
-Hijo, ayuda a tu padre en su vejez, y no le des disgustos durante su vida.
Si llega a perder la razón, sé indulgente con él, no le afrentes tú, que están en pleno vigor.
-Cuanto más grande seas, más de has de abajar.
-La sabiduría desea un oído atento.
-Arranca al oprimido de mano del opresor, no te acobardes al hacer justicia.
-Hay una vergüenza que conduce al pecado y hay otra que es gloria y favor.
-No dejes de hablar cuando sea necesario.
-No te sometas al estúpido, ni guardes miramientos con el poderoso.
-No seas como león en tu casa, ni altanero con tus criados.
-Sé pronto para oír, y lento en tu respuesta.
-No te entregues a los caprichos de la pasión.
-Que sean muchos tus amigos, pero uno entre mil tu consejero.
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1984 by George Orwell. Quotes II
-Were these people able to treat you as an inferior, simply because they were rich and you were poor?
-The hunting-down and destruction of books had been done with the same thoroughness in the prole quarters as everywhere else.
-Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets, anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered.
-The news is all lies anyway.
-By lack of understanding they remained sane.
-Confession is not betrayal. Only feelings matter.
-If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.
-They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done, or said, or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.
-Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
-If you cling to the truth even against the whole world, you are not mad.
-Sanity is not statistical.
-The people under the sky were also very much the same.
-If there was hope, it lay in the proles.
-Whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth.
-Perhaps, one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
-It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be.
-You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
-The Party seeks power for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, only power, pure power.
-Power is collective. The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual.
-Power is power over human beings. Over the body, but above all, over the mind.
-Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation.
-Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
-If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
-It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.
-Life will defeat you.
-It is one of the most characteristic and destructive developments of our own society that man, becoming more and more of an instrument, transforms reality more and more into something relative to his own interests and functions.
-The hunting-down and destruction of books had been done with the same thoroughness in the prole quarters as everywhere else.
-Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets, anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered.
-The news is all lies anyway.
-By lack of understanding they remained sane.
-Confession is not betrayal. Only feelings matter.
-If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.
-They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done, or said, or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.
-Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
-If you cling to the truth even against the whole world, you are not mad.
-Sanity is not statistical.
-The people under the sky were also very much the same.
-If there was hope, it lay in the proles.
-Whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth.
-Perhaps, one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
-It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be.
-You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
-The Party seeks power for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, only power, pure power.
-Power is collective. The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual.
-Power is power over human beings. Over the body, but above all, over the mind.
-Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation.
-Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
-If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
-It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.
-Life will defeat you.
-It is one of the most characteristic and destructive developments of our own society that man, becoming more and more of an instrument, transforms reality more and more into something relative to his own interests and functions.
1984 by George Orwel. Quotes
-You had to live with the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
-The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal, but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least buy twenty five years in a forced-labor camp.
-The lives of his mother and his sister have been sacrificed to his own.
-If all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed, if all records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
-Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?
-The Proles are not human beings.
-Orthodoxy means not thinking, not needing to think.
-Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.
-Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?
-To wear an improper expression on your face, was itself a punishable offense.
-The only recognize purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party.
-The Party taught that the Proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the application of a few simple rules.
-To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous.
-The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal, but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least buy twenty five years in a forced-labor camp.
-The lives of his mother and his sister have been sacrificed to his own.
-If all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed, if all records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
-Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?
-The Proles are not human beings.
-Orthodoxy means not thinking, not needing to think.
-Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.
-Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?
-To wear an improper expression on your face, was itself a punishable offense.
-The only recognize purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party.
-The Party taught that the Proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the application of a few simple rules.
-To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous.
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
All the Bright Places. Quotes.
-You know people call you "The Freak", right?
-Yeah. Sometimes I say and do things without thinking and... people don't like that. People like labels. The like putting you in a box. The want you to be who they want you to be.
-People don't like messy.
-Or different.
-Tell me about Eleonor.
-She was bossy... like you.
-I like her already.
-She hated reading... She only liked this Italian poet, Cesare Pavese. He said: "We do not remember days, we remember moments". Anytime I was having a bad day, she always said that. Like it was supposed to fix something...
-Did it?
-Yeah. It did.
-What else?
-She was my best friend.
-"Eleanor Markey: sister, best friend". That's a pretty good epitaph. What would yours be?
-"Violet Markey: I was here".
-Then... without really knowing... I changed... I wasn't worried about what happened if I lived, I was worried about if I didn't... What I would miss... I worried about not remembering... Not remembering all of the moments... all of the places... and that's because of Finch... because he taught me to wander... He taught me that you don't have to climb a mountain to stand on top of the world... That even the ugliest of places can be beautiful as long as you take time to look... that it's ok to get lost, as long as you find your way back. But in learning all of that, I missed seeing something more important... seeing Finch... I missed that he was in pain... I missed that he was teaching me all along how to move on... Finch was a dreamer... he dreamt while he was awake... He dreamt of all the beauty in the world and he made it come to life... Finch taught me that there's beauty in the most unexpected of places... and that there are bright places... even in dark times... And that if there isn't, you can be that bright place with infinite capacities...
-Yeah. Sometimes I say and do things without thinking and... people don't like that. People like labels. The like putting you in a box. The want you to be who they want you to be.
-People don't like messy.
-Or different.
-Tell me about Eleonor.
-She was bossy... like you.
-I like her already.
-She hated reading... She only liked this Italian poet, Cesare Pavese. He said: "We do not remember days, we remember moments". Anytime I was having a bad day, she always said that. Like it was supposed to fix something...
-Did it?
-Yeah. It did.
-What else?
-She was my best friend.
-"Eleanor Markey: sister, best friend". That's a pretty good epitaph. What would yours be?
-"Violet Markey: I was here".
-Then... without really knowing... I changed... I wasn't worried about what happened if I lived, I was worried about if I didn't... What I would miss... I worried about not remembering... Not remembering all of the moments... all of the places... and that's because of Finch... because he taught me to wander... He taught me that you don't have to climb a mountain to stand on top of the world... That even the ugliest of places can be beautiful as long as you take time to look... that it's ok to get lost, as long as you find your way back. But in learning all of that, I missed seeing something more important... seeing Finch... I missed that he was in pain... I missed that he was teaching me all along how to move on... Finch was a dreamer... he dreamt while he was awake... He dreamt of all the beauty in the world and he made it come to life... Finch taught me that there's beauty in the most unexpected of places... and that there are bright places... even in dark times... And that if there isn't, you can be that bright place with infinite capacities...
Monday, March 9, 2020
Thursday, February 27, 2020
When Death comes by Mary Oliver
When Death Comes
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox;
when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?
And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,
and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,
and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,
tending, as all music does, toward silence,
and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.
When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
Monday, February 24, 2020
Friday, January 31, 2020
The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant. Quotes II
-LeBron is bigger than me in height and width, but I enjoyed hitting, and getting hit, a lot more than him. That impacted our head-to-head matchups.
-If you want to win a championship, you, the star, have to take on the responsibility of guarding the other team’s best player. I always prided myself on guarding the best.
-In turn, I loved showing him (Westbrook) my full arsenal of weapons. One of them was mental: knowing my opponent. I knew he was competitive, as much then as he is now, so I knew he would bite at the opportunity to block my shot. So I’d throw him a hard pump fake and either get fouled or go right by him.
-Pau Gasol was like a brother to me. Over the course of my career, I suited up with dozens upon dozens of players. Among all of them, it’s safe to say that Pau was my favorite teammate ever.
-What separates great players from all-time great players is their ability to self-assess, diagnose weaknesses, and turn those flaws into strengths.
-The game provided me with every opportunity that I ever imagined it would, and along the way I learned a innumerable amount. I’m not just speaking about on the court, either. Without hoops, I would not understand how to create or write, I would not understand human nature, nor would I know how to lead.
-If you want to win a championship, you, the star, have to take on the responsibility of guarding the other team’s best player. I always prided myself on guarding the best.
-In turn, I loved showing him (Westbrook) my full arsenal of weapons. One of them was mental: knowing my opponent. I knew he was competitive, as much then as he is now, so I knew he would bite at the opportunity to block my shot. So I’d throw him a hard pump fake and either get fouled or go right by him.
-Pau Gasol was like a brother to me. Over the course of my career, I suited up with dozens upon dozens of players. Among all of them, it’s safe to say that Pau was my favorite teammate ever.
-What separates great players from all-time great players is their ability to self-assess, diagnose weaknesses, and turn those flaws into strengths.
-The game provided me with every opportunity that I ever imagined it would, and along the way I learned a innumerable amount. I’m not just speaking about on the court, either. Without hoops, I would not understand how to create or write, I would not understand human nature, nor would I know how to lead.
Thursday, January 30, 2020
The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant. Quotes
-From day one, I wanted to dominate. My mindset was: I’m going to figure you out. Whether it was AI, Tracy, Vince—or, if I were coming up today, LeBron, Russ, Steph—my goal was to figure you out. And to do that, to figure those puzzles out, I was willing to do way more than
anyone else.
-I always felt like if I started my day early, I could train more each day. If I started at 11, I’d get in a few hours, rest for four hours, and then get back to the gym around 5 to 7. But if I started at 5 AM and went until 7, I could go again from 11 until 2 and 6 until 8. By starting earlier, I set myself up for an extra workout each day. Over the course of a summer, that’s a lot of extra hours in the gym.
-I wasn’t willing to sacrifice my game, but I also wasn’t willing to sacrifice my family time. So I decided to sacrifice sleep, and that was that.
-From a young age—a very young age—I devoured film and watched everything I could get my hands on. It was always fun to me. Some people, after all, enjoy looking at a watch; others are happier figuring out how the watch works.
-If you really want to be great at something, you have to truly care about it. If you want to be great in a particular area, you have to obsess over it.
-If you want to be a great basketball player, you have to be in great shape. Everyone talks about the fancy workouts and training sessions, but I also worked relentlessly to make sure that my legs and lungs were always at peak performance.
-Pain in one area of your body often stems from an imbalance somewhere else. With that in mind, it’s important to treat the root cause and not the effect.
-I always made sure my ankles were activated and moving. If your ankles are stiff, that can create problems in the knees, hips, back, and all the way up. So, I’d spend a lot of time before games working on my ankles—the core of the problem—so that I wouldn’t exacerbate the symptoms.
-I would begin stretching a couple of hours before games. Then, as the game got closer and closer, I would start doing more active, more range-of-motion things to get ready.
anyone else.
-I always felt like if I started my day early, I could train more each day. If I started at 11, I’d get in a few hours, rest for four hours, and then get back to the gym around 5 to 7. But if I started at 5 AM and went until 7, I could go again from 11 until 2 and 6 until 8. By starting earlier, I set myself up for an extra workout each day. Over the course of a summer, that’s a lot of extra hours in the gym.
-I wasn’t willing to sacrifice my game, but I also wasn’t willing to sacrifice my family time. So I decided to sacrifice sleep, and that was that.
-From a young age—a very young age—I devoured film and watched everything I could get my hands on. It was always fun to me. Some people, after all, enjoy looking at a watch; others are happier figuring out how the watch works.
-If you really want to be great at something, you have to truly care about it. If you want to be great in a particular area, you have to obsess over it.
-If you want to be a great basketball player, you have to be in great shape. Everyone talks about the fancy workouts and training sessions, but I also worked relentlessly to make sure that my legs and lungs were always at peak performance.
-Pain in one area of your body often stems from an imbalance somewhere else. With that in mind, it’s important to treat the root cause and not the effect.
-I always made sure my ankles were activated and moving. If your ankles are stiff, that can create problems in the knees, hips, back, and all the way up. So, I’d spend a lot of time before games working on my ankles—the core of the problem—so that I wouldn’t exacerbate the symptoms.
-I would begin stretching a couple of hours before games. Then, as the game got closer and closer, I would start doing more active, more range-of-motion things to get ready.
2019 reading list
1. January: Do as I say not as I do by Peter Schweizer
2. February: Compass, a handbook on parent leadership by J. Stenson.
3. March: With love and prayers by F. Jarvis
4. April: Win forever by Pete Carroll.
5. May: Finding flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
6. June: Your words hold a miracle by John Osteen.
7. July: The spiritual child by Lisa Miller.
8. August: Think positive thoughts every day by Unknown.
9. September: Life after life by R. Moody.
10. October: Siddhartha by H. Hesse.
11. November: Death by E. Kubller Ross
12. December: 1984 by George Orwell.
2. February: Compass, a handbook on parent leadership by J. Stenson.
3. March: With love and prayers by F. Jarvis
4. April: Win forever by Pete Carroll.
5. May: Finding flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
6. June: Your words hold a miracle by John Osteen.
7. July: The spiritual child by Lisa Miller.
8. August: Think positive thoughts every day by Unknown.
9. September: Life after life by R. Moody.
10. October: Siddhartha by H. Hesse.
11. November: Death by E. Kubller Ross
12. December: 1984 by George Orwell.
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
The Mamba Mentality
Five Pillars Of The Mamba Mentality:
- Be Passionate.
- Be Obsessive.
- Be Relentless
- Be Resilient.
- Be Fearless.
Friday, January 24, 2020
Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes X
-Humankind will survive only through the commitment and involvement of individuals in the own and others' growth and development as human beings.
-Through commitment to personal growth individual human beings will also make their contribution to the growth and development of the whole species to become all that humankind can and is meant to be.
-You must give up everything in order to gain everything. What must you give up? All that is not truly you. You can be yourself only if you are no one else. You must give up their approval, whoever they are, and look to yourself for evaluation of success and failure, in terms of your own level of aspiration that is consistent with your values. Nothing is simpler and nothing is more difficult.
-When we know and understand completely that our time on this earth is limited, and that we have no way of knowing it will be over, then we must live each day as if it were the only one we had.
-There is no total death. Only the body dies. The self or spirit, or whatever you may wish to label it, is eternal.
-Through commitment to personal growth individual human beings will also make their contribution to the growth and development of the whole species to become all that humankind can and is meant to be.
-You must give up everything in order to gain everything. What must you give up? All that is not truly you. You can be yourself only if you are no one else. You must give up their approval, whoever they are, and look to yourself for evaluation of success and failure, in terms of your own level of aspiration that is consistent with your values. Nothing is simpler and nothing is more difficult.
-When we know and understand completely that our time on this earth is limited, and that we have no way of knowing it will be over, then we must live each day as if it were the only one we had.
-There is no total death. Only the body dies. The self or spirit, or whatever you may wish to label it, is eternal.
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes IX
-How we interact with one another and how we experience ourselves are more important for dying persons than the content of their religious myths or their articulated philosophy of life.
-There is a cost to participation in our own radical change for the better. The price is that we become committed persons.
-There is no need to be afraid of death. It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we are alive, to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes from living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
-Death is the key to the door of life.
-It is through accepting the finiteness of our individual existences that we are enabled to find the strength and courage to reject those extrinsic roles and expectations and devote each day of our lives to growing as fully as we are able.
-We must learn to draw on our inner resources, to define ourselves in terms of the feedback we receive from our own internal valuing system rather than trying to fit ourselves into some ill-fitting stereotyped role.
-When you fully understand that each day you awaken could be the last you have, you take the time that day to grow, to become more of who you really are, to reach out to other human beings.
-The world is in desperate need of human beings whose own level of growth is sufficient to enable them learn to live and work with others cooperatively and lovingly, to care for others, not for what those others can do for you or for what they think of you, but rather in terms of what you can do for them.
-There is a cost to participation in our own radical change for the better. The price is that we become committed persons.
-There is no need to be afraid of death. It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we are alive, to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes from living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
-Death is the key to the door of life.
-It is through accepting the finiteness of our individual existences that we are enabled to find the strength and courage to reject those extrinsic roles and expectations and devote each day of our lives to growing as fully as we are able.
-We must learn to draw on our inner resources, to define ourselves in terms of the feedback we receive from our own internal valuing system rather than trying to fit ourselves into some ill-fitting stereotyped role.
-When you fully understand that each day you awaken could be the last you have, you take the time that day to grow, to become more of who you really are, to reach out to other human beings.
-The world is in desperate need of human beings whose own level of growth is sufficient to enable them learn to live and work with others cooperatively and lovingly, to care for others, not for what those others can do for you or for what they think of you, but rather in terms of what you can do for them.
Monday, January 20, 2020
Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes VIII
-Through reaching out and committing yourself to dialogue with fellow human beings, you can begin to transcend your individual existence, becoming at one with yourself and others. And through a life time of such commitment, you can face your final end with peace and joy, knowing that you have lived your life well.
-We must learn to die in order that we may learn to live.
-In order to grow, you must continuously die and be reborn.
-The issue is awareness, of living in the present. Whatever our present existence consists of, if we are at one with it, we are healthy.
-Death separates us from all that we hold dear, including our very selves. It is the ultimate of separations. And unlike any other separations, we have little choice as to whether or not the separation will occur. However, what it is in our control is the quality of the separation experience.
-I have lived more in the past three months than I have during my whole life. I wish I knew forty years ago what I know now about living.
-Acceptance is the beginning of growth.
-We must learn to die in order that we may learn to live.
-In order to grow, you must continuously die and be reborn.
-The issue is awareness, of living in the present. Whatever our present existence consists of, if we are at one with it, we are healthy.
-Death separates us from all that we hold dear, including our very selves. It is the ultimate of separations. And unlike any other separations, we have little choice as to whether or not the separation will occur. However, what it is in our control is the quality of the separation experience.
-I have lived more in the past three months than I have during my whole life. I wish I knew forty years ago what I know now about living.
-Acceptance is the beginning of growth.
Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes VII
-Facing death means facing the ultimate question of the meaning of life.
-If we really want to live we must have the courage to recognize that life is ultimately very short and that everything we do counts. When it is the evening of our life we will hopefully have a chance to look back and say: it was worthwhile because I have really lived.
-It is not the quantity of life but the quality that counts.
-I am not afraid of dying, but I am afraid of hurting my family and my boyfriend. I don't want them to suffer.
-This can't go on. I want to die. I am so sorry to say that, Daddy, and I love you so much.
-And before my very eyes I saw that dying is a birth. It is terribly, terribly hard. It may be the hardest thing a person ever does. But one does emerge from the dark into the light.
-Where there is suffering the gift of courage is given.
-Death is another beginning, not an end.
-If you can face and understand your ultimate death, perhaps you can learn to face and deal productively with each change that presents itself in your life.
-If we really want to live we must have the courage to recognize that life is ultimately very short and that everything we do counts. When it is the evening of our life we will hopefully have a chance to look back and say: it was worthwhile because I have really lived.
-It is not the quantity of life but the quality that counts.
-I am not afraid of dying, but I am afraid of hurting my family and my boyfriend. I don't want them to suffer.
-This can't go on. I want to die. I am so sorry to say that, Daddy, and I love you so much.
-And before my very eyes I saw that dying is a birth. It is terribly, terribly hard. It may be the hardest thing a person ever does. But one does emerge from the dark into the light.
-Where there is suffering the gift of courage is given.
-Death is another beginning, not an end.
-If you can face and understand your ultimate death, perhaps you can learn to face and deal productively with each change that presents itself in your life.
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes VI
-Death follows no predictable timetable, but chooses its own time and place.
-One of the hardest kinds of death to accept is that of one's child.
-When someone you love dies, you have lost part of yourself.
-In the end we are always alone, but it is not the number of people who surround us in our dying, not is it the number of years that we have lived that is significant; it is the quality of life and the courage and strength we have shown that ultimately gives us the strength to face this final journey alone and with dignity.
-Her awareness cost her her complacency.
-It is the promise of death and the experience of dying, more than any other force in life, that can move a human being to grow.
-We are meant for something more in this life than simply eating, sleeping, watching television, and going to work five days a week.
-There is life after death. We will be reborn again one day in order to complete the tasks we have not been able or willing to complete in this lifetime.
-It was there in the midst of suffering that I found my goal. It was there in the midst of poverty, isolation and suffering that I lived more than in all the years before or afterwards.
-Where does a human been get the inner strength and equanimity to face crisis in life? What turns people with the same human potential into beautiful, caring and loving, self-sacrificing human beings?
-One of the hardest kinds of death to accept is that of one's child.
-When someone you love dies, you have lost part of yourself.
-In the end we are always alone, but it is not the number of people who surround us in our dying, not is it the number of years that we have lived that is significant; it is the quality of life and the courage and strength we have shown that ultimately gives us the strength to face this final journey alone and with dignity.
-Her awareness cost her her complacency.
-It is the promise of death and the experience of dying, more than any other force in life, that can move a human being to grow.
-We are meant for something more in this life than simply eating, sleeping, watching television, and going to work five days a week.
-There is life after death. We will be reborn again one day in order to complete the tasks we have not been able or willing to complete in this lifetime.
-It was there in the midst of suffering that I found my goal. It was there in the midst of poverty, isolation and suffering that I lived more than in all the years before or afterwards.
-Where does a human been get the inner strength and equanimity to face crisis in life? What turns people with the same human potential into beautiful, caring and loving, self-sacrificing human beings?
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes V
-Emotional acceptance takes time and work and pain and hurt.
-The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people just don't happen.
-What a blessing to take the time to integrate loss into our lives so that when a love is lost, our capacity to love is not lost also. From our grief can come growth.
-The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people just don't happen.
-What a blessing to take the time to integrate loss into our lives so that when a love is lost, our capacity to love is not lost also. From our grief can come growth.
Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes IV
-The conquest of death is believed to be along and arduous task, involving the cultivation of a disciplined mind and body throughout many terms of existence.
-To find release to must begin regard life and death as identical.
-As a man desires, he wills. As he wills, he acts. As he acts, so does he become.
-It is no really the dying that's so hard; dying takes no skill and no understanding. It can be done by anyone. What is hard is living, living until you die.
-Learning to reinvest yourself in living when you have lost someone you love is very difficult, but only through doing so can you give some meaning to that person's death.
-Dying patients should be allowed as much control as possible over their lives and routines, and life should, as far as possible, be consistent with the life they led before their illness.
-A funeral should be a time to say your last goodbyes, to begin to work through your grief, to make death through actively participating in the preparation and final service, to begin living again and growing through your experience.
-To find release to must begin regard life and death as identical.
-As a man desires, he wills. As he wills, he acts. As he acts, so does he become.
-It is no really the dying that's so hard; dying takes no skill and no understanding. It can be done by anyone. What is hard is living, living until you die.
-Learning to reinvest yourself in living when you have lost someone you love is very difficult, but only through doing so can you give some meaning to that person's death.
-Dying patients should be allowed as much control as possible over their lives and routines, and life should, as far as possible, be consistent with the life they led before their illness.
-A funeral should be a time to say your last goodbyes, to begin to work through your grief, to make death through actively participating in the preparation and final service, to begin living again and growing through your experience.
Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes III
-It is not a particular type of human action per se that determines the outcome of a course of action, whether for good or ill. Rather, it is the frame of mind and heart which is crucial.
-Death is the fate to which all living creatures come at the appointed time, and the unavoidable gate to another realm or state of being through which all creatures must pass.
-That person who faces death calmly, courageously, and confidently, desiring neither to flee it nor to rush into its grasp, will come to recognize death not as an enemy or a robber, but as an ever present companion, and eventually, as a friend.
-Neither human beings nor the universe itself, experiences either and absolute beginning or and absolute end.
-In every instant we are born; in every instant, we die. Birth and death are two almost indistinguishable and imperceptible strands of a single rope of existence.
-Death is the inescapable destiny of all creatures and, given its inevitability, she has not cause to grieve.
-Death is the fate to which all living creatures come at the appointed time, and the unavoidable gate to another realm or state of being through which all creatures must pass.
-That person who faces death calmly, courageously, and confidently, desiring neither to flee it nor to rush into its grasp, will come to recognize death not as an enemy or a robber, but as an ever present companion, and eventually, as a friend.
-Neither human beings nor the universe itself, experiences either and absolute beginning or and absolute end.
-In every instant we are born; in every instant, we die. Birth and death are two almost indistinguishable and imperceptible strands of a single rope of existence.
-Death is the inescapable destiny of all creatures and, given its inevitability, she has not cause to grieve.
Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes II
-By making death and dying a taboo subject and keeping children away from people who are dying or who have died, we create fear that need not be there.
-Illness frequently is accompanied by regressive behavior.
-The first thing the toddler does with a new sitter is to test the limits.
-If only we could be honest, both admit of our fears, touch one another. If you really care, would you lose so much of your valuable professionalism if you even cried with me? Just person to person? Then, it might not be so hard to die, in a hospital, with friends close.
-Chinese believe in face-saving, in status.
-Human volition is a powerful and sometimes determinative factor in dying.
-Judaism: three days of deep grief, seven days of mourning, thirty days of gradual adjustment, and eleven months of remembrance and healing.
-Illness frequently is accompanied by regressive behavior.
-The first thing the toddler does with a new sitter is to test the limits.
-If only we could be honest, both admit of our fears, touch one another. If you really care, would you lose so much of your valuable professionalism if you even cried with me? Just person to person? Then, it might not be so hard to die, in a hospital, with friends close.
-Chinese believe in face-saving, in status.
-Human volition is a powerful and sometimes determinative factor in dying.
-Judaism: three days of deep grief, seven days of mourning, thirty days of gradual adjustment, and eleven months of remembrance and healing.
Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes
-For many years I continued to ask terminal patients to be our teachers.
-The meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day, and from hour to hour. What matters therefore is not the meaning of life in general, but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
-I think Susan lived more in the last few months of her life than the 71 year old woman did in seven decades.
-We can only truly live, and enjoy, and appreciate life if we realize at all times that we are finite.
-In the decades to come we may see one universe, one humankind, one religion that unites us all in a peaceful world. It is up to each of you to lay the groundwork for this future generation, by making an attempt NOW to comprehend and care for your fellow humans, no matter what their creed, color, or philosophy. Through understanding that in the end we all share the same destiny, that just as surely as we are alive, so we will die, we may come also to understand that in life also we must be as one, aware of the appreciative of our differences and yet accepting in our humanness , we are all alike.
-It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar.
-The meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day, and from hour to hour. What matters therefore is not the meaning of life in general, but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
-I think Susan lived more in the last few months of her life than the 71 year old woman did in seven decades.
-We can only truly live, and enjoy, and appreciate life if we realize at all times that we are finite.
-In the decades to come we may see one universe, one humankind, one religion that unites us all in a peaceful world. It is up to each of you to lay the groundwork for this future generation, by making an attempt NOW to comprehend and care for your fellow humans, no matter what their creed, color, or philosophy. Through understanding that in the end we all share the same destiny, that just as surely as we are alive, so we will die, we may come also to understand that in life also we must be as one, aware of the appreciative of our differences and yet accepting in our humanness , we are all alike.
-It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar.
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Friday, November 29, 2019
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Quotes VII
-You seek too much that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
-Wisdom is not communicable.
-In every truth the opposite is equally true.
-Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided. The world itself, being in and around us is never one-sided.
-Time is not real.
-The potential Buddha already exists in the sinner.
-The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment.
-I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world, and not longer compare it with some kind of desired imaginary world, some imaginary vision of perfection, but to leave as it is, to love it and be glad to belong to it.
-What is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.
-One cannot love words.
-Love is the most important thing in the world.
-My words about love are in apparent contradiction to the teachings of Gotama. That is just why I distrust words so much.
-We are now old men. We may never see each other again in this life. I can see my dear friend, that you have found peace.
-Govinda bowed low. Uncontrollable tears trickled down his old face. He was overwhelmed by a feeling of great love, of the most humble veneration. He bowed low, right down to the ground, in front of the man sitting there motionless, whose smile reminded him of everything that he had ever loved in his life, of everything that had ever been of value and holy in his life.
-Wisdom is not communicable.
-In every truth the opposite is equally true.
-Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided. The world itself, being in and around us is never one-sided.
-Time is not real.
-The potential Buddha already exists in the sinner.
-The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment.
-I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world, and not longer compare it with some kind of desired imaginary world, some imaginary vision of perfection, but to leave as it is, to love it and be glad to belong to it.
-What is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.
-One cannot love words.
-Love is the most important thing in the world.
-My words about love are in apparent contradiction to the teachings of Gotama. That is just why I distrust words so much.
-We are now old men. We may never see each other again in this life. I can see my dear friend, that you have found peace.
-Govinda bowed low. Uncontrollable tears trickled down his old face. He was overwhelmed by a feeling of great love, of the most humble veneration. He bowed low, right down to the ground, in front of the man sitting there motionless, whose smile reminded him of everything that he had ever loved in his life, of everything that had ever been of value and holy in his life.
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Quotes VI
-No teacher could have brought him salvation. That was why he had to go into the world, to lose himself in power, women and money; that was why he had to be a merchant, a dice player, a drinker and a man of property, until the priest and Samana in him were dead.
-The river knows everything.
-There is not such thing as time.
-Siddhartha's previous live were also not in the past, and his death and his return to Brahma are not in the future. Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence.
-Kamala looked into his eyes. You have grown old, my dear. You have become gray.
-Looking at him she said: now I see that your eyes have also changed. They have become quite different. How do I recognize that you are still Siddhartha? You are Siddhartha and yet you are not like him. Have you find peace?
-For a long time he looked intently at the pale face, at the tired wrinkles and saw his own face like that, just as white, also dead, and at the same time he saw his face and hers, young, with red lips, with ardent eyes and he was overwhelmed with a feeling of the present and contemporary existence. In this hour he felt more acutely the indestructibleness of every life, the eternity of every moment.
-No, my dear. Why should I be sad?
-Do you not chain him with your love?
-Do you think, my dear friend that anybody is spared this path?
-The consciousness of the unity of all life. It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
-Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.
-All the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world.
-The river knows everything.
-There is not such thing as time.
-Siddhartha's previous live were also not in the past, and his death and his return to Brahma are not in the future. Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence.
-Kamala looked into his eyes. You have grown old, my dear. You have become gray.
-Looking at him she said: now I see that your eyes have also changed. They have become quite different. How do I recognize that you are still Siddhartha? You are Siddhartha and yet you are not like him. Have you find peace?
-For a long time he looked intently at the pale face, at the tired wrinkles and saw his own face like that, just as white, also dead, and at the same time he saw his face and hers, young, with red lips, with ardent eyes and he was overwhelmed with a feeling of the present and contemporary existence. In this hour he felt more acutely the indestructibleness of every life, the eternity of every moment.
-No, my dear. Why should I be sad?
-Do you not chain him with your love?
-Do you think, my dear friend that anybody is spared this path?
-The consciousness of the unity of all life. It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
-Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.
-All the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world.
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Quotes V
-Knew only one thing: that he could not go back, that the life he had lived for many years was past, tasted and drained to a degree of nausea.
-The past now seemed to him covered by a veil, extremely remote, very unimportant.
-The world of appearances is transitory, the style of our clothes and hair is extremely transitory. Our hair and our bodies are themselves transitory.
-The transitory soon changes.
-Three noble and invincible arts: fasting, waiting, and thinking. These were his possessions, his power and strength, his firm staff.
-Nothing is mine, I know nothing, I posses nothing. I have learned nothing. How strange it is. Now, when I am no longer young, when my hair is fast growing gray, when strength begins to diminish, now I am beginning again like a child.
-Is it not true that slowly and through many deviations I changed from a man into a child? From a thinker into an ordinary person? And yet this path has been good and the bird in my breast has not died.
-The bird, the clear spring and voice within him was still alive. That was why he rejoiced, that was why he laughed, that was why his face was radiant under his gray hair.
-The past now seemed to him covered by a veil, extremely remote, very unimportant.
-The world of appearances is transitory, the style of our clothes and hair is extremely transitory. Our hair and our bodies are themselves transitory.
-The transitory soon changes.
-Three noble and invincible arts: fasting, waiting, and thinking. These were his possessions, his power and strength, his firm staff.
-Nothing is mine, I know nothing, I posses nothing. I have learned nothing. How strange it is. Now, when I am no longer young, when my hair is fast growing gray, when strength begins to diminish, now I am beginning again like a child.
-Is it not true that slowly and through many deviations I changed from a man into a child? From a thinker into an ordinary person? And yet this path has been good and the bird in my breast has not died.
-The bird, the clear spring and voice within him was still alive. That was why he rejoiced, that was why he laughed, that was why his face was radiant under his gray hair.
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Quotes IV
-Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better. so did the restless man wish he could rid himself with one terrific heave of these pleasures, of these habits of this entirely senseless life.
-Mentally he went through the whole of his life.
-How many long years he had spent without any lofty goal, without any thirst, without any exaltation, content with small pleasures and yet never really satisfied.
-Without knowing it, he had endeavored and longed all these years to be like all these other people, like these children, and yet his life had been much more wretched and poorer than theirs, for their aims were not his, not their sorrows his.
-He sat all that day under the mango tree, thinking of his father, thinking of Govinda, thinking of Gotama. Had he left all these in order to become a Kamaswami?
-The same night, Siddhartha left his garden and the town and never returned.
-Mentally he went through the whole of his life.
-How many long years he had spent without any lofty goal, without any thirst, without any exaltation, content with small pleasures and yet never really satisfied.
-Without knowing it, he had endeavored and longed all these years to be like all these other people, like these children, and yet his life had been much more wretched and poorer than theirs, for their aims were not his, not their sorrows his.
-He sat all that day under the mango tree, thinking of his father, thinking of Govinda, thinking of Gotama. Had he left all these in order to become a Kamaswami?
-The same night, Siddhartha left his garden and the town and never returned.
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Quotes III
-That pride of standing alone, that eager readiness to hear the divine voice within his own heart had gradually become a memory, had passed.
-Gradually, along with his growing riches, Siddhartha himself acquired some of the characteristics of the ordinary people.
-Gradually, his face assumed the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of idleness, of lovelessness. Slowly the soul sickness of the rich crept over him.
-He only noticed that the bright and clear inward voice, that had once awakened in him and had always guided him in his finest hours, had become silent. The world had caught him.
-That vice that he had always despised and scorned as the most foolish, acquisitiveness: property, possessions and riches had also finally trapped him. They were no longer a game and a toy; they had become a chain and a burden.
-Whenever he awakened from this hateful spell, when he saw his face reflected in the mirror on the wall of his bedroom, grown older and uglier, whenever shame and nausea overtook him, he fled again, fled to a new game of chance, fled in confusion to passion, to wine, and from there back again to the urge for acquiring and hoarding wealth, He wore himself out in this senseless cycle, became old and sick.
-Never had it been so strangely clear to Siddhartha how closely related passion was to death.
-He had drunk much wine and late after midnight he went to bed, tired and yet agitated, nearly in tears and in despair. In vain did he tried to sleep. His heart was so full of misery, he felt he could no longer endure it.
-Gradually, along with his growing riches, Siddhartha himself acquired some of the characteristics of the ordinary people.
-Gradually, his face assumed the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of idleness, of lovelessness. Slowly the soul sickness of the rich crept over him.
-He only noticed that the bright and clear inward voice, that had once awakened in him and had always guided him in his finest hours, had become silent. The world had caught him.
-That vice that he had always despised and scorned as the most foolish, acquisitiveness: property, possessions and riches had also finally trapped him. They were no longer a game and a toy; they had become a chain and a burden.
-Whenever he awakened from this hateful spell, when he saw his face reflected in the mirror on the wall of his bedroom, grown older and uglier, whenever shame and nausea overtook him, he fled again, fled to a new game of chance, fled in confusion to passion, to wine, and from there back again to the urge for acquiring and hoarding wealth, He wore himself out in this senseless cycle, became old and sick.
-Never had it been so strangely clear to Siddhartha how closely related passion was to death.
-He had drunk much wine and late after midnight he went to bed, tired and yet agitated, nearly in tears and in despair. In vain did he tried to sleep. His heart was so full of misery, he felt he could no longer endure it.
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Quotes II
-I knew how to think, to wait, and to fast.
-I am certainly without possessions by of my own free will, so I am not in need.
-He heard much and said little.
-Although he found it so easy to speak to everyone, to live with everyone, to learn from everyone, he was very conscious of the fact that there was something which separated him from them, and this was due to the fact that he had been a Samana.
-He did not treat the rich foreign merchant differently from the servant.
-Then, he suddenly saw clearly that he was leading a strange life, that he was doing many things that were only a game, that he was quite cheerful and sometimes experienced pleasure, but that real life was flowing past him and did not touch him.
-With his heart, with his real nature, he was not there. His real self wandered elsewhere, far away, wandered on an on invisibly and had nothing to do with his life.
-Most people, Kamala, are like a falling leaft that drifts and turns in the air, flatters and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel a defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
-I am certainly without possessions by of my own free will, so I am not in need.
-He heard much and said little.
-Although he found it so easy to speak to everyone, to live with everyone, to learn from everyone, he was very conscious of the fact that there was something which separated him from them, and this was due to the fact that he had been a Samana.
-He did not treat the rich foreign merchant differently from the servant.
-Then, he suddenly saw clearly that he was leading a strange life, that he was doing many things that were only a game, that he was quite cheerful and sometimes experienced pleasure, but that real life was flowing past him and did not touch him.
-With his heart, with his real nature, he was not there. His real self wandered elsewhere, far away, wandered on an on invisibly and had nothing to do with his life.
-Most people, Kamala, are like a falling leaft that drifts and turns in the air, flatters and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel a defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Quotes
-Your soul is the whole world.
-Then, the father realized that Siddhartha could no longer remain with him at home, that he had already left him.
-Everything lied, stank of lies; they were all illusions of sense, happiness and beauty. All were doomed to decay. The world tasted bitter. Life was pain.
-Siddhartha had one single goal: to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow, to let the Self die.
-Are we on the right road? Are we approaching salvation? The path is a spiral.
-Opinions mean nothing.
-Nobody finds salvation through teachings.
-He recognize causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed to him, is to think, and through thought alone, feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.
-The world was beautiful when looked at it in this way, without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.
-Everything comes back.
-One can learn much from a river.
-One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.
-I require clothes, money, that's all. These are easy goals which do not disturb one's sleep.
-Then, the father realized that Siddhartha could no longer remain with him at home, that he had already left him.
-Everything lied, stank of lies; they were all illusions of sense, happiness and beauty. All were doomed to decay. The world tasted bitter. Life was pain.
-Siddhartha had one single goal: to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow, to let the Self die.
-Are we on the right road? Are we approaching salvation? The path is a spiral.
-Opinions mean nothing.
-Nobody finds salvation through teachings.
-He recognize causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed to him, is to think, and through thought alone, feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.
-The world was beautiful when looked at it in this way, without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.
-Everything comes back.
-One can learn much from a river.
-One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.
-I require clothes, money, that's all. These are easy goals which do not disturb one's sleep.
Monday, November 11, 2019
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Life after life by R. A. Moody. Quotes
-What has amazed me since the beginning of my interest are the great similarities in the reports, despite the fact that they come from people of highly varied religious, social, and educational backgrounds.
-What have you done with your life that is sufficient?
-It was like looking through a volume of my entire life and being able to do it within seconds. It just flashed before me like a motion picture that goes tremendously fast.
-I could see all of my loved ones who had died: my mother, my father, my sister, and others.
-I never wanted to leave the presence of this being.
-After this, I don't have my doubts anymore. I know there is life after death.
-The dying man may meet with other departed spirits whom he knew while in life.
-What have you done with your life that is sufficient?
-It was like looking through a volume of my entire life and being able to do it within seconds. It just flashed before me like a motion picture that goes tremendously fast.
-I could see all of my loved ones who had died: my mother, my father, my sister, and others.
-I never wanted to leave the presence of this being.
-After this, I don't have my doubts anymore. I know there is life after death.
-The dying man may meet with other departed spirits whom he knew while in life.
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Think positive thoughts every day. By Unknown. Quotes III
-Faith begins by believing in your heart that what is right has a chance. Beth Fagan Quinn.
-Love yourself everyday and remember how many people love you.
Release the child within you. Jacqueline Schiff.
-If you only could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world. Emmet Fox.
-Hope is a trust that if I fail now I shall not fail forever; and if I am hurt, I shall be healed. Anonymous.
-Love yourself everyday and remember how many people love you.
Release the child within you. Jacqueline Schiff.
-If you only could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world. Emmet Fox.
-Hope is a trust that if I fail now I shall not fail forever; and if I am hurt, I shall be healed. Anonymous.
Monday, October 7, 2019
Monday, September 23, 2019
Think positive thoughts every day by Unknown. Quotes IV
-Whether it's a family member, somebody at work, or your best friend who's hurt you badly, put yourself in their shoes and treat them the way you would want to be treated, even if they don't deserve it.
-Prove to yourself that you can practice what you believe. Try to be as understanding of others ad you would want them to be of you.
-What other people do is their responsibility. They are not responsible for your actions, no matter what they do . You are.
-If someone has said something untrue about you or done something intentionally to hurt you, wish good things for that person, even if you don't feel like it.
-If you have made a mistake or disappointed yourself or others, apologize quickly and earnestly; that's all you can do. Let your remorse teach you how to have compassion for others when they make mistakes.
-If you fell like yelling, go outside and throw rocks on the cement instead. Take a walk or, better yet, sing... it will put a melody back in your life.
-If you think someone is making fun of you or someone you love, disarm them, not with your fist, but with your best smile.
-Get in touch with the person you want to be and become that. Listen to your heart... you can find the answer there to every question you have.
-Forgiveness is letting go of the pain and accepting what has happened, because it will not change.
-When times become difficult, remember a moment in your life that was filled with joy and happiness.
-When life throws you one more obstacle that you think you can handle, remember something you achieved through perseverance and by struggling to the end. In doing so, you will find you have the ability to overcome each obstacle brought your way.
-When you find yourself drained and depleted of energy, remember to find a place of sanctuary and rest.
-When you are faced with so many negative and draining situations, realize how minuscule problems will seem when you view your life as a whole, and remember the positive things.
-Patience with the loved ones in your life. Courage to go on when you are afraid.
-Never let anyone or anything make you feel less than you are, because who you are is someone special. Never feel that the next step is a step too far. If you are stumbling as you walk, hod your head high and know that no other person's words or actions can ever hurt you, because who you are is someone special.
-Never lose faith in yourself. Just look around you, at the friends who surround you, because they love and care for you, support you, and believe in you. Because you are someone special.
-Imagine yourself to be the type of person you want to be, and then be it.
-It is only in trying and persisting that dreams come true.
-Your thoughts and actions, the way you spend your time, your choices and decisions determine who you are and whom you will become.
-You are capable and worthy of being and doing anything. Never give up. Life is an ever-changing process, and nothing is final. Therefore, each moment and every new day is a chance to begin anew.
-We control our own destiny because we can decide how people and events affect us. So much of our happiness lies within the choices that we make.
-We can live in the past or dream about the future, or we can life for today.
-Always hold honor as a high virtue.
-Despite how the world may be, rise above.
-Believe in hard work, and always believe in yourself.
-Always see the goodness in this world, do your part in helping those less fortunate, walk hand in hand with those of less talent.
-Set yourself apart from those who are the same.
-Have the self-confidence to say no when it's necessary and the strength to stand alone.
-Walk with pride down the road of life, be humble in your successes, and share in the praises and joy of others.
-Prove to yourself that you can practice what you believe. Try to be as understanding of others ad you would want them to be of you.
-What other people do is their responsibility. They are not responsible for your actions, no matter what they do . You are.
-If someone has said something untrue about you or done something intentionally to hurt you, wish good things for that person, even if you don't feel like it.
-If you have made a mistake or disappointed yourself or others, apologize quickly and earnestly; that's all you can do. Let your remorse teach you how to have compassion for others when they make mistakes.
-If you fell like yelling, go outside and throw rocks on the cement instead. Take a walk or, better yet, sing... it will put a melody back in your life.
-If you think someone is making fun of you or someone you love, disarm them, not with your fist, but with your best smile.
-Get in touch with the person you want to be and become that. Listen to your heart... you can find the answer there to every question you have.
-Forgiveness is letting go of the pain and accepting what has happened, because it will not change.
-When times become difficult, remember a moment in your life that was filled with joy and happiness.
-When life throws you one more obstacle that you think you can handle, remember something you achieved through perseverance and by struggling to the end. In doing so, you will find you have the ability to overcome each obstacle brought your way.
-When you find yourself drained and depleted of energy, remember to find a place of sanctuary and rest.
-When you are faced with so many negative and draining situations, realize how minuscule problems will seem when you view your life as a whole, and remember the positive things.
-Patience with the loved ones in your life. Courage to go on when you are afraid.
-Never let anyone or anything make you feel less than you are, because who you are is someone special. Never feel that the next step is a step too far. If you are stumbling as you walk, hod your head high and know that no other person's words or actions can ever hurt you, because who you are is someone special.
-Never lose faith in yourself. Just look around you, at the friends who surround you, because they love and care for you, support you, and believe in you. Because you are someone special.
-Imagine yourself to be the type of person you want to be, and then be it.
-It is only in trying and persisting that dreams come true.
-Your thoughts and actions, the way you spend your time, your choices and decisions determine who you are and whom you will become.
-You are capable and worthy of being and doing anything. Never give up. Life is an ever-changing process, and nothing is final. Therefore, each moment and every new day is a chance to begin anew.
-We control our own destiny because we can decide how people and events affect us. So much of our happiness lies within the choices that we make.
-We can live in the past or dream about the future, or we can life for today.
-Always hold honor as a high virtue.
-Despite how the world may be, rise above.
-Believe in hard work, and always believe in yourself.
-Always see the goodness in this world, do your part in helping those less fortunate, walk hand in hand with those of less talent.
-Set yourself apart from those who are the same.
-Have the self-confidence to say no when it's necessary and the strength to stand alone.
-Walk with pride down the road of life, be humble in your successes, and share in the praises and joy of others.
Friday, September 13, 2019
Think positive thoughts every day. By Unknown. Quotes II
-Try to keep a positive attitude by looking for the little blessings that happen every day.
Human can rescue from being overwhelmed. Barbara Cage.
-Promise yourself to dream more and hesitate less. To believe in yourself more and judge yourself less by the accomplishments of others.
Promise yourself to accept life as it comes and truly make each day special.
Deanna Beisser.
-By training your thoughts to concentrate on the bright side of things, you are more likely to have the incentive to follow through on your goals.
Don't leave your future to chance, or wait for things to get better mysteriously on their own. You must go in the direction of your hopes and aspirations.
Work through your problems rather than avoid them.
Mistakes can be lessons that lead to discoveries.
You will find happiness when you adopt positive thinking into your daily routine and make it an important part of your world.
Kelly D. Caron
-Find that dreams do come true.
Remember that you have a guardian angel watching over you.
Linda Ann McConnell.
-Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. H. Keller.
-Keep believing that you have what it takes to make your dream into a reality.
Know that you have the ability to do anything.
Regina Hill.
-Look for the beauty around you. Barbara Cage.
-Now is when you flourish and grow. Michele Rossi
Human can rescue from being overwhelmed. Barbara Cage.
-Promise yourself to dream more and hesitate less. To believe in yourself more and judge yourself less by the accomplishments of others.
Promise yourself to accept life as it comes and truly make each day special.
Deanna Beisser.
-By training your thoughts to concentrate on the bright side of things, you are more likely to have the incentive to follow through on your goals.
Don't leave your future to chance, or wait for things to get better mysteriously on their own. You must go in the direction of your hopes and aspirations.
Work through your problems rather than avoid them.
Mistakes can be lessons that lead to discoveries.
You will find happiness when you adopt positive thinking into your daily routine and make it an important part of your world.
Kelly D. Caron
-Find that dreams do come true.
Remember that you have a guardian angel watching over you.
Linda Ann McConnell.
-Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. H. Keller.
-Keep believing that you have what it takes to make your dream into a reality.
Know that you have the ability to do anything.
Regina Hill.
-Look for the beauty around you. Barbara Cage.
-Now is when you flourish and grow. Michele Rossi
Think positive thoughts every day. By Unknown. Quotes
-Most of the shadows of this life are cause by standing in one's own sunshine. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-Hope gives all of us our reason for trying. Regina Hill.
-May you find peace in simple things, because those are the ones that will always be there. Regina Hill.
-May you remember the good times and forget the sorrow and pain, for the good times will remind you of how special your life has been. Regina Hill.
-May you always feel secure and loved, and know you are the best. Regina Hill.
-May you find warmth in others, expressions of love and kindness, smiles that encourage you, and friends who are loyal and honest. Regina Hill.
-With understanding and love, you will find the good in every heart. Regina Hill.
-May you have faith in others and the ability to be vulnerable. Open your heart and really share the miracle of love and intimacy. Regina Hill.
-Refuse to be unhappy, to let your troubles multiply; organize your time; refuse to dwell on the mistakes and disappointments; be optimistic, be energetic and positive; always hope for the best, believe in yourself at all times and in all aspects of your life. Ben Daniels.
-Trust that whatever happens, there is someone who will understand.
Honesty, the feeling that you never need to hold back.
Peace, in being accepted for who you really are.
Beauty in outlook more than appearance.
Freedom... to be yourself, to change, and to grow..
Joy, in every day, in every memory, and in your hopes for the future.
Love to last a lifetime, and perhaps beyond. D.L. Riepl
-Realize that life isn't always fair.
Think before you act.
Look for the beauty in life, in people, in nature, and in yourself.
Appreciate what you have.
Make the effort to have fun.
Accept others without judgment.
Forgive.
Learn.
Dream.
Barbara Cage.
-Difficulties arise in the lives of us all. What is most important is dealing with the hard times, coping with the changes, and getting through to the other side where the sun is still shining just for you. Douglas Pagels.
-Hope gives all of us our reason for trying. Regina Hill.
-May you find peace in simple things, because those are the ones that will always be there. Regina Hill.
-May you remember the good times and forget the sorrow and pain, for the good times will remind you of how special your life has been. Regina Hill.
-May you always feel secure and loved, and know you are the best. Regina Hill.
-May you find warmth in others, expressions of love and kindness, smiles that encourage you, and friends who are loyal and honest. Regina Hill.
-With understanding and love, you will find the good in every heart. Regina Hill.
-May you have faith in others and the ability to be vulnerable. Open your heart and really share the miracle of love and intimacy. Regina Hill.
-Refuse to be unhappy, to let your troubles multiply; organize your time; refuse to dwell on the mistakes and disappointments; be optimistic, be energetic and positive; always hope for the best, believe in yourself at all times and in all aspects of your life. Ben Daniels.
-Trust that whatever happens, there is someone who will understand.
Honesty, the feeling that you never need to hold back.
Peace, in being accepted for who you really are.
Beauty in outlook more than appearance.
Freedom... to be yourself, to change, and to grow..
Joy, in every day, in every memory, and in your hopes for the future.
Love to last a lifetime, and perhaps beyond. D.L. Riepl
-Realize that life isn't always fair.
Think before you act.
Look for the beauty in life, in people, in nature, and in yourself.
Appreciate what you have.
Make the effort to have fun.
Accept others without judgment.
Forgive.
Learn.
Dream.
Barbara Cage.
-Difficulties arise in the lives of us all. What is most important is dealing with the hard times, coping with the changes, and getting through to the other side where the sun is still shining just for you. Douglas Pagels.
Sunday, September 8, 2019
The spiritual child. Quotes XIV
-Breathe and trust. It's not that we said the perfect thing in a grand moment that changed our child's life. We just need to open our hearts and try. Parenting and spirituality is not a scoreboard. Think of it as a tidal wave of love that we are learning to surf. What works is when day after day we show up ready to try to feel and move with an open heart.
-Treat challenges and setbacks as a spiritual opportunity.
-Transparency is an intentional willingness to show our children how we resolve daily frustration, painful events, ethical problems, and difficult decisions through our own spiritual relationship.
-We can express gratitude for being alive.
-If we are not perfect, but are works in progress who live our lives to learn, then our children tackle life as a process of learning, spiritual awakening, and discovery.
-The child knows the answer to big questions right from the source.
-Spirituality is a way of living, an experiential space. It is a lived reality so it is as a way of being with hardship.
-I will seek to know the person first.
-I strongly believe in following Jesus, not just knowing about Him.
-When you just don't know the answer, appreciate the moment.
-Help the child learn to engage life on spiritual terms, to lean into a spiritual understanding of the world.
-Whom she saw directly as a soul.
-Who we are: part of the universal oneness is having respectful and loving relationships with nature and animals.
-All living things are our teachers.
-How can we bring our love to the world?
-Children want to understand their place in the family, both physically and spiritually. Family history in general is very important to explain to children what came before.
-Family is part of something larger, something the beyond purely physical.
-Sanctification of the family also happens when we acknowledge with gratitude each person in the family and the specialness of being a whole.
-We make mistakes. When we do, forget trying to hide it from your child. Any change or disruption in the family is an opportunity to reconnect and communicate.
-Our family comes first.
-Love grows everywhere with one more!
-Spiritual values say there is a much higher bar ethically than that which is demonstrated in the everyday bare minimum standard.
-How high we can go? I call this approach the spirituality of inspired living, which is the ethic through which we connect in the universe to one another and to a higher presence.
-The inspired life honors our inner deep compass: knowing the true standard is so much higher than just what's allowed and living that truth. It's not just making do with the customary rules of the school or the workplace: it is imagining how life could really be instead.
-There is another form of right action and that is to repair the world, fix things: If I lose my temper, it means apologizing. Go back and awkward as it may feel say I am sorry. Apologize. Fix things. The more we do it, the easier it becomes, and it starts to feel good.
-Our opportunity for the inspired life is always right here, right now.
-Every moment of daily life is a spiritual opportunity to encourage, uplift, or turn anger into a moment of humor and connection. The moments begin at home.
-To decide what kind of soul on earth they want to be, help them to reach out to someone at school who is having a hard time, to look past unfashionable clothes or a bad attitude, and look into another's eyes and ask: how are you doing? While you are at it, do the same for that crabby colleague at your office. Ask what he is thinking or curious about; ask how he is. The culture of love spreads very quickly.
-Treat challenges and setbacks as a spiritual opportunity.
-Transparency is an intentional willingness to show our children how we resolve daily frustration, painful events, ethical problems, and difficult decisions through our own spiritual relationship.
-We can express gratitude for being alive.
-If we are not perfect, but are works in progress who live our lives to learn, then our children tackle life as a process of learning, spiritual awakening, and discovery.
-The child knows the answer to big questions right from the source.
-Spirituality is a way of living, an experiential space. It is a lived reality so it is as a way of being with hardship.
-I will seek to know the person first.
-I strongly believe in following Jesus, not just knowing about Him.
-When you just don't know the answer, appreciate the moment.
-Help the child learn to engage life on spiritual terms, to lean into a spiritual understanding of the world.
-Whom she saw directly as a soul.
-Who we are: part of the universal oneness is having respectful and loving relationships with nature and animals.
-All living things are our teachers.
-How can we bring our love to the world?
-Children want to understand their place in the family, both physically and spiritually. Family history in general is very important to explain to children what came before.
-Family is part of something larger, something the beyond purely physical.
-Sanctification of the family also happens when we acknowledge with gratitude each person in the family and the specialness of being a whole.
-We make mistakes. When we do, forget trying to hide it from your child. Any change or disruption in the family is an opportunity to reconnect and communicate.
-Our family comes first.
-Love grows everywhere with one more!
-Spiritual values say there is a much higher bar ethically than that which is demonstrated in the everyday bare minimum standard.
-How high we can go? I call this approach the spirituality of inspired living, which is the ethic through which we connect in the universe to one another and to a higher presence.
-The inspired life honors our inner deep compass: knowing the true standard is so much higher than just what's allowed and living that truth. It's not just making do with the customary rules of the school or the workplace: it is imagining how life could really be instead.
-There is another form of right action and that is to repair the world, fix things: If I lose my temper, it means apologizing. Go back and awkward as it may feel say I am sorry. Apologize. Fix things. The more we do it, the easier it becomes, and it starts to feel good.
-Our opportunity for the inspired life is always right here, right now.
-Every moment of daily life is a spiritual opportunity to encourage, uplift, or turn anger into a moment of humor and connection. The moments begin at home.
-To decide what kind of soul on earth they want to be, help them to reach out to someone at school who is having a hard time, to look past unfashionable clothes or a bad attitude, and look into another's eyes and ask: how are you doing? While you are at it, do the same for that crabby colleague at your office. Ask what he is thinking or curious about; ask how he is. The culture of love spreads very quickly.
The spiritual child by Lisa Miller. Quotes XIII
-Sometimes it's ok not to have a plan.
-Parenthood is the very definition of ego death, a surrender of control and vanity that actually makes us more.
-The field of love expands exponentially with children.
-Children with their open hearts and frank questions can tear down walls and let the adults in.
-How can I help them be who they are, to be the most complete?
-Of the hundreds of things that I might have brought up in a week, not everything got this kind of interest. Start talking about what's the point of life, and he was riveted.
-For me, I need work that gives me meaning, makes me tick, and relationships that are built on love and trust.
-I had a dream this week and Gradma Ellie was in it.
-I felt as if in sharing this dream, he'd given me the most important thing in his life. That experience became a template for me, now with my own kids and in my own work: next to listening, our journey as the parent is the greatest thing we have to share. My father's telling of his dream was a lovely shared moment, both of us at the cusp of grief and trying to figure it out together. He didn't have an answer and I didn't have an answer but we knew it was important and we were leaning in. He let me into the relationship, embrace and sustenance of inner spiritual life, into the reality of spiritual life. It was a sacred moment. It was as intimate and real and just as important as life gets.
-Parenthood is the very definition of ego death, a surrender of control and vanity that actually makes us more.
-The field of love expands exponentially with children.
-Children with their open hearts and frank questions can tear down walls and let the adults in.
-How can I help them be who they are, to be the most complete?
-Of the hundreds of things that I might have brought up in a week, not everything got this kind of interest. Start talking about what's the point of life, and he was riveted.
-For me, I need work that gives me meaning, makes me tick, and relationships that are built on love and trust.
-I had a dream this week and Gradma Ellie was in it.
-I felt as if in sharing this dream, he'd given me the most important thing in his life. That experience became a template for me, now with my own kids and in my own work: next to listening, our journey as the parent is the greatest thing we have to share. My father's telling of his dream was a lovely shared moment, both of us at the cusp of grief and trying to figure it out together. He didn't have an answer and I didn't have an answer but we knew it was important and we were leaning in. He let me into the relationship, embrace and sustenance of inner spiritual life, into the reality of spiritual life. It was a sacred moment. It was as intimate and real and just as important as life gets.
The Spiritual Child by Lisa Miller. Quotes XII
-The spirit can heal once the adolescent is made whole.
-Grief and destruction as necessary for my rebirth.
-Help came from an unanticipated place.
-Rediscovering heart knowing through contemplation, yoga, and meditation.
-Her depression was, at the heart of it, a spiritual quest.
-When parents are unavailable for whatever reason to provide the loving connection to the field of love, some children are able to access it as Marin eventually did: through a direct, felt, transcendent relationship with their higher power, or through their spiritual guidance in nature, or with others who offer a heartfelt, supportive presence that honors what is good in life.
-All parts of us are valuable and good: our minds, our bodies, our sexuality, our urges and desires.
-In wholeness, lies healing.
-When you arrive into parenthood, you know you have arrived into something much bigger. Planned or unplanned, joyful or heavy with uncertainty, it is a threshold passage in the deepest sense.
-Once we become parents, we are forever changed, your love for a child opens the field of love.
-Parenthood is a spiritual pilgrimage: the hard work and austerity, the steep climb with its trials and setbacks, uncertainty in place of control, the disorientation as the self or ego dissolves into a spirit that is no longer self-centered but now exists for something larger and more precious than the self, your child.
-The exhaustion, trials and wear of parenting do not make us less, they make us more. Parenting is an erosion of vanity and of the illusion of control. Through struggles and trials and soul searching, we become clear about what matters and what really doesn't.
-Becoming a parent is when a gift of live has been offered and received, when love quietly moves into our lives and takes over.
-Grief and destruction as necessary for my rebirth.
-Help came from an unanticipated place.
-Rediscovering heart knowing through contemplation, yoga, and meditation.
-Her depression was, at the heart of it, a spiritual quest.
-When parents are unavailable for whatever reason to provide the loving connection to the field of love, some children are able to access it as Marin eventually did: through a direct, felt, transcendent relationship with their higher power, or through their spiritual guidance in nature, or with others who offer a heartfelt, supportive presence that honors what is good in life.
-All parts of us are valuable and good: our minds, our bodies, our sexuality, our urges and desires.
-In wholeness, lies healing.
-When you arrive into parenthood, you know you have arrived into something much bigger. Planned or unplanned, joyful or heavy with uncertainty, it is a threshold passage in the deepest sense.
-Once we become parents, we are forever changed, your love for a child opens the field of love.
-Parenthood is a spiritual pilgrimage: the hard work and austerity, the steep climb with its trials and setbacks, uncertainty in place of control, the disorientation as the self or ego dissolves into a spirit that is no longer self-centered but now exists for something larger and more precious than the self, your child.
-The exhaustion, trials and wear of parenting do not make us less, they make us more. Parenting is an erosion of vanity and of the illusion of control. Through struggles and trials and soul searching, we become clear about what matters and what really doesn't.
-Becoming a parent is when a gift of live has been offered and received, when love quietly moves into our lives and takes over.
Sunday, September 1, 2019
The Spiritual Child by Lisa Miller. Quotes XI
-The value of a human life. Not just anyone's: your human life. The purpose of your whole being. Your value. And the point of the entire world around you. This is the core work of spiritual individuation, the quest.
-Depression opens a path for spiritual growth that, if taken, can lead to a deeply cultivated, lasting personal spirituality.
-Through spiritual engagement they actively shaped their sensitive brains in a way that was neuro-protective against recurrence of major depression.
-Neurologically, psychologically, and spiritually, spirituality and depression appear as two sides of the same coin.
-The more the teen has set up the personal transcendent relationship, the more resilient, emotionally and physically, they are likely to be when they confront illness, loss, and bereavement, all the things that eventually come our way in life.
-A preoccupation with personal control in the face of unwanted life events that are not controllable leads to recurrence of depression, anxiety, stress disorders, and addictive consumption of food, alcohol, and tobacco.
-Strong personal spirituality builds greater grit and optimism in the face of adversity.
-How can you be depressed when you got everything you wanted? If spiritual individuation and the normal quest for meaning, purpose, and transcendent connection is unmet, the core is not built.
-The spiritual connection through his family, the field of love, is what lifted his depression.
-Religious practice and nonreligious mindfulness practice both contributed equally in different ways to teens' spiritual development.
-Religious practice plus mindfulness add up to more spiritual awareness and engagement. Mindful teens and religiously observant teens both were equally spiritual, equally connected with the transcendent relationship, felt a sense of spiritual discovery, and felt daily spiritual experience.
-"My dad died years ago, but I still talk to him sometimes when I'm feeling down or I don't know what to do".
-The teen must connect head and heart knowing in order for their spiritual and analytical faculties to inform one another.
-Depression opens a path for spiritual growth that, if taken, can lead to a deeply cultivated, lasting personal spirituality.
-Through spiritual engagement they actively shaped their sensitive brains in a way that was neuro-protective against recurrence of major depression.
-Neurologically, psychologically, and spiritually, spirituality and depression appear as two sides of the same coin.
-The more the teen has set up the personal transcendent relationship, the more resilient, emotionally and physically, they are likely to be when they confront illness, loss, and bereavement, all the things that eventually come our way in life.
-A preoccupation with personal control in the face of unwanted life events that are not controllable leads to recurrence of depression, anxiety, stress disorders, and addictive consumption of food, alcohol, and tobacco.
-Strong personal spirituality builds greater grit and optimism in the face of adversity.
-How can you be depressed when you got everything you wanted? If spiritual individuation and the normal quest for meaning, purpose, and transcendent connection is unmet, the core is not built.
-The spiritual connection through his family, the field of love, is what lifted his depression.
-Religious practice and nonreligious mindfulness practice both contributed equally in different ways to teens' spiritual development.
-Religious practice plus mindfulness add up to more spiritual awareness and engagement. Mindful teens and religiously observant teens both were equally spiritual, equally connected with the transcendent relationship, felt a sense of spiritual discovery, and felt daily spiritual experience.
-"My dad died years ago, but I still talk to him sometimes when I'm feeling down or I don't know what to do".
-The teen must connect head and heart knowing in order for their spiritual and analytical faculties to inform one another.
The Spiritual Child by Lisa Miller. Quotes X
-Individuation can progress without spiritual individuation, but it is a weakened version based too often solely on performance, accomplishment, and material success.
-The most helpful way to support an adolescent is to frame the quest as spiritual, and as an essential, core part of their emergence to adulthood.
-The adolescent brain is built for the tasks of individuation and spiritual individuation in the second decade, even more so than in adulthood, when neural networks and patterns of thought have become more deeply entrenched.
-Spiritual development is the most important work we do in the second decade.
-A spiritual core changes all else into an inspired life.
-What we see as a surly, unsettled teen is more accurately a teen on a quest to bring mind, body, and spirit into alignment, to integrate those parts of the self into a coherent whole.
-By doing good actions, they are de facto making themselves into a person who operates with spiritual values and can discover the feelings of the heart, and transcendent relationships, that come through service.
-How can there not be something else?
-The essential self-knowledge is gained through the developmental challenges and tasks of the second decade.
-The most helpful way to support an adolescent is to frame the quest as spiritual, and as an essential, core part of their emergence to adulthood.
-The adolescent brain is built for the tasks of individuation and spiritual individuation in the second decade, even more so than in adulthood, when neural networks and patterns of thought have become more deeply entrenched.
-Spiritual development is the most important work we do in the second decade.
-A spiritual core changes all else into an inspired life.
-What we see as a surly, unsettled teen is more accurately a teen on a quest to bring mind, body, and spirit into alignment, to integrate those parts of the self into a coherent whole.
-By doing good actions, they are de facto making themselves into a person who operates with spiritual values and can discover the feelings of the heart, and transcendent relationships, that come through service.
-How can there not be something else?
-The essential self-knowledge is gained through the developmental challenges and tasks of the second decade.
The Spiritual Child by Lisa Miller. Quotes IX
-For an adolescent, when transcendence is not guided to connect with the rest of lived experience, the teen loses hold of the innate capacity for spiritual awareness.
-The world is different without the knowing of the heart, without the sense of being part of something greater and good, without the added glow of family or the field of love, or without the intuitive awareness of the wisdom in nature and all living beings.
-What can we do? We can parent our adolescents for spiritual individuation, with a strength and presence that ultimately outweighs the surrounding culture.
-The mark of outward success: very little concern with goodness or morality in family goals and time together, inner life or reflection, morality or spiritual values.
-The cost of severed spirits: physical appearance was the most powerful factor for predicting a girl's popularity, with a girl's hostility or mean girl factor being the second greatest predictor of popularity. For teen boys, substance use was the greatest predictor of popularity, followed by their exploitive attitude or behavior toward women.
-Feeding a child on raw outward ambition, without unconditional love, does not make for success in any way.
-Spiritual individuation will set up the teen for a much healthier, more meaningful, purposeful, and thriving adult life. Lacking spiritual resources, teens search for the transcendent experience wherever they can find it: risky behaviors, including reckless driving or casual or unprotected sex, and substance use.
-The stronger the teen's transcendent relationship, the less likely she was to use drugs.
-Adolescence brings with it and erupting hunger for transcendence.
-Positive psychology grow out of transcendent values, a spiritual worldview and sense that our direction and relationships have ultimate value.
-Choice by choice, big and little, the new map takes shape and with it comes an emerging concept of identity based upon a deeper spiritual worldview. Who am I? What do I want my life to be? What is my purpose?
-The world is different without the knowing of the heart, without the sense of being part of something greater and good, without the added glow of family or the field of love, or without the intuitive awareness of the wisdom in nature and all living beings.
-What can we do? We can parent our adolescents for spiritual individuation, with a strength and presence that ultimately outweighs the surrounding culture.
-The mark of outward success: very little concern with goodness or morality in family goals and time together, inner life or reflection, morality or spiritual values.
-The cost of severed spirits: physical appearance was the most powerful factor for predicting a girl's popularity, with a girl's hostility or mean girl factor being the second greatest predictor of popularity. For teen boys, substance use was the greatest predictor of popularity, followed by their exploitive attitude or behavior toward women.
-Feeding a child on raw outward ambition, without unconditional love, does not make for success in any way.
-Spiritual individuation will set up the teen for a much healthier, more meaningful, purposeful, and thriving adult life. Lacking spiritual resources, teens search for the transcendent experience wherever they can find it: risky behaviors, including reckless driving or casual or unprotected sex, and substance use.
-The stronger the teen's transcendent relationship, the less likely she was to use drugs.
-Adolescence brings with it and erupting hunger for transcendence.
-Positive psychology grow out of transcendent values, a spiritual worldview and sense that our direction and relationships have ultimate value.
-Choice by choice, big and little, the new map takes shape and with it comes an emerging concept of identity based upon a deeper spiritual worldview. Who am I? What do I want my life to be? What is my purpose?
Saturday, August 24, 2019
The Spiritual Child by Lisa Miller. Quotes VIII
-The tumultuous period of adolescence is when values and priorities are forged, meaning and purpose are discovered, and an inner compass is honed. this critical work of crafting the self helps the teen determine how to engage with the world.
-Spirituality si the most robust protective factor against the big three dangers of adolescence: depression, substance abuse, and risk taking.
-Spiritual individuation is the adolescent's drive to find deeper personal meaning and purpose, in himself and in life.
-The process of spiritual awakening is triggered by puberty, literally ignited in the brain by the same rush of hormones that trigger sexual growth.
-Family, school, community, and personal choices of the adolescent create the environment that shapes the adolescent brain.
-When head and heart are connected, there is a resource, a guiding inner voice, that helps answer the questions and can actively respond to help the teen resist temptation.
-The emerging picture from research is clear: the brain's front-back connectivity is critical in helping adolescents process their experiences and feelings, modulate impulses, and make good decisions that are informed by head and heart.
-Severed spirituality occurs when transcendence is not infused into the developmental process of adolescence. The foundation is built withouth the strength, connection and direction of spirituality. If we have severed the spirit during groundlaying work, the house is colder, darker, and less sure. The structural integrity is compromised.
-Spirituality si the most robust protective factor against the big three dangers of adolescence: depression, substance abuse, and risk taking.
-Spiritual individuation is the adolescent's drive to find deeper personal meaning and purpose, in himself and in life.
-The process of spiritual awakening is triggered by puberty, literally ignited in the brain by the same rush of hormones that trigger sexual growth.
-Family, school, community, and personal choices of the adolescent create the environment that shapes the adolescent brain.
-When head and heart are connected, there is a resource, a guiding inner voice, that helps answer the questions and can actively respond to help the teen resist temptation.
-The emerging picture from research is clear: the brain's front-back connectivity is critical in helping adolescents process their experiences and feelings, modulate impulses, and make good decisions that are informed by head and heart.
-Severed spirituality occurs when transcendence is not infused into the developmental process of adolescence. The foundation is built withouth the strength, connection and direction of spirituality. If we have severed the spirit during groundlaying work, the house is colder, darker, and less sure. The structural integrity is compromised.
The Spiritual Child by Lisa Miller. Quotes VII
-What comes around, goes around karma.
-Dreams, mystical experiences, and more common spiritual experiences are sources of direct knowing, direct, authentic, and uncommanded experience, that invite connection between a child's head and heart knowing.
-How can we keep those neural connections of unitive empathy strong? Language, our own actions, and love are our most powerful tools.
-The child of four through six or seven years old still feels others' suffering directly, not as if they know what it's like, but as their own.
-The conversation about spiritual values isn't a conversation that should be segregated from the rest of a child's learning experience.
-If you encourage your child's natural spiritual assets, trusting heart kwowing and validating direct transcendent experience; encouraging natural love of nature, of spiritual ritual and prayer and right action, and the sense of family as special, these assets will develop into spiritual strengths with lfelong benefits.
-Simple parental attention is more than simply supportive.
-A child's inner life is an instrument of spiritual knowing, a trustworthy inner compass that aligns itself for health, and orients toward the truth and spiritual values.
-Young children experience parents as omniscient beings, loving and protective.
-Sports teams tap into kids' hardwired spiritual values: for selfless commitment, collective practice, ritual, play, and higher purpose.
-All people of genuine, loving spiritual nature share a fundamental sense of goodness in how they view others and the world we share.
-If you can stand up for yourself and others on the playground, you are solid.
-Our values dictate how we play.
-Dreams offer a deeper developmental narrative of the transition, helping the child take just one step beyond. This is what a dream does: it illuminates our path.
-Dreams, mystical experiences, and more common spiritual experiences are sources of direct knowing, direct, authentic, and uncommanded experience, that invite connection between a child's head and heart knowing.
-How can we keep those neural connections of unitive empathy strong? Language, our own actions, and love are our most powerful tools.
-The child of four through six or seven years old still feels others' suffering directly, not as if they know what it's like, but as their own.
-The conversation about spiritual values isn't a conversation that should be segregated from the rest of a child's learning experience.
-If you encourage your child's natural spiritual assets, trusting heart kwowing and validating direct transcendent experience; encouraging natural love of nature, of spiritual ritual and prayer and right action, and the sense of family as special, these assets will develop into spiritual strengths with lfelong benefits.
-Simple parental attention is more than simply supportive.
-A child's inner life is an instrument of spiritual knowing, a trustworthy inner compass that aligns itself for health, and orients toward the truth and spiritual values.
-Young children experience parents as omniscient beings, loving and protective.
-Sports teams tap into kids' hardwired spiritual values: for selfless commitment, collective practice, ritual, play, and higher purpose.
-All people of genuine, loving spiritual nature share a fundamental sense of goodness in how they view others and the world we share.
-If you can stand up for yourself and others on the playground, you are solid.
-Our values dictate how we play.
-Dreams offer a deeper developmental narrative of the transition, helping the child take just one step beyond. This is what a dream does: it illuminates our path.
The Spiritual Child by Lisa Miller. Quotes VI
-When we live authentically in an affirmative space of inspiration, events unfold in the realm of miracles.
-Love grows exponentially. You put a little bit of love and you get twice as much back.
-Suffering is lighter when we are bonded together.
-Don't stop with people: include pets or wildlife, and all aspects of nature. This can make a lovely bedtime ritual, a nightly remembering of all the love and support that exists for your child, from Mom and Dad and siblings to family far and near, naming each one and, especially for those who live far away, naming where they live to help your child feel their presence. For those who have passed on, you can say loved you even before you were born and still do.
-Family is sacred.
-Many religious traditions hold that family members are purposefully brought together to share life lessons and help each other grow.
-We can notice one another first and foremost as souls on earth rather than the label we might assign in a judging way: the smart one, etc.
-Family models our core humanity.
-When we como from a place of love and acceptance, then suddenly other people are worthy, not weird.
-Express thanks for the gift of the day and the many ways those gifts present themselves.
-There was not disadvantage in mental health between those children who had been left behind and those who lived with both parents. The love and support that the children needed to flourish was sufficient from any committed loving source.
-Cynical people have a higher likelihood of developing dementia: cynicism appears to be neuro-degenerative for the long term.
-We don't make our child spiritual at all. We cultivate their spirituality when we recognize the field of love as ground and guide for spiritual parenting. We set our intention to make our home environment and communities, our actions and expectations, and our ways of interacting with one another to be consistent with spiritual values.
-Love grows exponentially. You put a little bit of love and you get twice as much back.
-Suffering is lighter when we are bonded together.
-Don't stop with people: include pets or wildlife, and all aspects of nature. This can make a lovely bedtime ritual, a nightly remembering of all the love and support that exists for your child, from Mom and Dad and siblings to family far and near, naming each one and, especially for those who live far away, naming where they live to help your child feel their presence. For those who have passed on, you can say loved you even before you were born and still do.
-Family is sacred.
-Many religious traditions hold that family members are purposefully brought together to share life lessons and help each other grow.
-We can notice one another first and foremost as souls on earth rather than the label we might assign in a judging way: the smart one, etc.
-Family models our core humanity.
-When we como from a place of love and acceptance, then suddenly other people are worthy, not weird.
-Express thanks for the gift of the day and the many ways those gifts present themselves.
-There was not disadvantage in mental health between those children who had been left behind and those who lived with both parents. The love and support that the children needed to flourish was sufficient from any committed loving source.
-Cynical people have a higher likelihood of developing dementia: cynicism appears to be neuro-degenerative for the long term.
-We don't make our child spiritual at all. We cultivate their spirituality when we recognize the field of love as ground and guide for spiritual parenting. We set our intention to make our home environment and communities, our actions and expectations, and our ways of interacting with one another to be consistent with spiritual values.
The Spiritual Child. Quotes V
-Practices to improve mindfulness are effective in calming emotions, focusing attention and relieving anxiety.
-Focus and attention in children are cultivated in long silences and introspective moments.
-Children and teens need time to watch the bee and sit with the tree, let their minds wander and wonder.
-By allowing and cultivating peaceful moments, we encourage mindfulness.
-If we build our positive assets, we have a far-enhanced inner landscape through which to relate and ultimately thrive in the world.
-Child and parent are attuned to one another, both as senders and receivers, well beyond physical sight, sound, or touch. This phenomenon is the unitive state, a shared experience between child and parent.
-The child's pure happiness for the assembled relatives may reawaken us to the joyousness of having a family beyond the petty concerns or unfortunate wrinkles of the past. Like a family assembled, together we are more than the sum of our parts.
-The child is born whole. This new soul arrives with spirituality intact. The developmental work of childhood and then adolescence is to integrate this natural spirituality into the changing capacities of cognitive, social, emotional, moral, and physical growth.
-We can raise strong souls.
-Long, loving silences let the connection flow.
-In a world of sometimes shocking mixed messages, parents intuitively try to create a home in which values cultivate a deeper and more resonant life, one with higher meaning and purpose.
-Spiritual presence, guidance, and values can come from extended family, close friends, psychologists, youth workers and clergy, coaches, and educators. Each of these important adults has a personal choice to decide to be a spiritual presence and model of love.
-Trascendence is prominent in the positive experiences of compassion, forgiveness, hope, and joy that we share with one another.
-We do not need to be perfectly on the mark each day, but the field can become and ever present statement of how we aim to live as family and who we are as family.
-When we lean into the goal of being a collective field of love, things change.
-The field of love is in us, and in the space between us, made up of love so strong that it feels almost physical to the touch.
-Focus and attention in children are cultivated in long silences and introspective moments.
-Children and teens need time to watch the bee and sit with the tree, let their minds wander and wonder.
-By allowing and cultivating peaceful moments, we encourage mindfulness.
-If we build our positive assets, we have a far-enhanced inner landscape through which to relate and ultimately thrive in the world.
-Child and parent are attuned to one another, both as senders and receivers, well beyond physical sight, sound, or touch. This phenomenon is the unitive state, a shared experience between child and parent.
-The child's pure happiness for the assembled relatives may reawaken us to the joyousness of having a family beyond the petty concerns or unfortunate wrinkles of the past. Like a family assembled, together we are more than the sum of our parts.
-The child is born whole. This new soul arrives with spirituality intact. The developmental work of childhood and then adolescence is to integrate this natural spirituality into the changing capacities of cognitive, social, emotional, moral, and physical growth.
-We can raise strong souls.
-Long, loving silences let the connection flow.
-In a world of sometimes shocking mixed messages, parents intuitively try to create a home in which values cultivate a deeper and more resonant life, one with higher meaning and purpose.
-Spiritual presence, guidance, and values can come from extended family, close friends, psychologists, youth workers and clergy, coaches, and educators. Each of these important adults has a personal choice to decide to be a spiritual presence and model of love.
-Trascendence is prominent in the positive experiences of compassion, forgiveness, hope, and joy that we share with one another.
-We do not need to be perfectly on the mark each day, but the field can become and ever present statement of how we aim to live as family and who we are as family.
-When we lean into the goal of being a collective field of love, things change.
-The field of love is in us, and in the space between us, made up of love so strong that it feels almost physical to the touch.
The Spiritual Child. Quotes IV
-Spirituality in adulthood was linked to less suffering in life, less depression and substance abuse, higher rates of recovery from physical illness, and even a longer life span.
-A key factor in thriving has to do with the habits of living, particularly around relationships, that we establish in childhood.
-These daily ways of living are so much a part of our family culture and conversation that we absorb them like a sponge.
-Regardless of race, ethnicity, or apparent material wealth, some people shone with a brightness of warmth and kindness, with radiant eyes and expressions, while others were visibly downcast and burdened. I came to think of this brightness as a sign that, spiritually, the light is on.
-Spirituality is not found in the mother or the youth alone but in the nod: the passage from parent to child or grandparent to grandchild.
-The parent is an ambassador of transcendence, the guide on the ground who introduces a child to the spiritually attuned life.
-Everyone is born with an inherent spirituality, a natural sense of trascendence.
-The power of the nod was illuminated for me by the compassionate grandmother and granddaughter royal couple on the subway that Sunday twenty years ago.
-I am very spiritual. Why? Because my father just really, really loved me. I mean he absolutely adored me. The way that his love felt, I now feel a similar feeling, it's that feeling, from God.
-The way a baby looks at you, and especially your own baby... they look at you with this sense of you are my everything, and that is amazing.
-Babies bring out the best in us.
-Parents are perceived as generally carrying divine qualities.
-The natural long term developmental trajectory of the brain is toward enligthment. This path is only disturbed by our contemporary culture putting spirituality on the back shelf.
-The deeply soulful presence of a newborn or youngster grabs our attention, shows us the realm of human possibility, and perhaps jolts us into remembering a bigger reality from our own childhood. They show us our true spiritual nature.
-A key factor in thriving has to do with the habits of living, particularly around relationships, that we establish in childhood.
-These daily ways of living are so much a part of our family culture and conversation that we absorb them like a sponge.
-Regardless of race, ethnicity, or apparent material wealth, some people shone with a brightness of warmth and kindness, with radiant eyes and expressions, while others were visibly downcast and burdened. I came to think of this brightness as a sign that, spiritually, the light is on.
-Spirituality is not found in the mother or the youth alone but in the nod: the passage from parent to child or grandparent to grandchild.
-The parent is an ambassador of transcendence, the guide on the ground who introduces a child to the spiritually attuned life.
-Everyone is born with an inherent spirituality, a natural sense of trascendence.
-The power of the nod was illuminated for me by the compassionate grandmother and granddaughter royal couple on the subway that Sunday twenty years ago.
-I am very spiritual. Why? Because my father just really, really loved me. I mean he absolutely adored me. The way that his love felt, I now feel a similar feeling, it's that feeling, from God.
-The way a baby looks at you, and especially your own baby... they look at you with this sense of you are my everything, and that is amazing.
-Babies bring out the best in us.
-Parents are perceived as generally carrying divine qualities.
-The natural long term developmental trajectory of the brain is toward enligthment. This path is only disturbed by our contemporary culture putting spirituality on the back shelf.
-The deeply soulful presence of a newborn or youngster grabs our attention, shows us the realm of human possibility, and perhaps jolts us into remembering a bigger reality from our own childhood. They show us our true spiritual nature.
Sunday, August 18, 2019
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Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Solomon Grey - Home (official audio)
Follow you home
How could I ever live without you
Follow you home
Until the witch grey I could never let you go
And you're free
And you're free
Just follow you home
I'll take you back to where we used to live
Thankfully now
These times will never go away again
And you're free
And you're free
Just watch you go out
Only…
Monday, August 12, 2019
Geoffroy - Raised By Wolves (Official Video)
I was lost now I'm found,
I'm sustained by the sound,
Of the angels singing me to sleep,
While my feet are leaving the ground,
Am I dead? Or am I dreaming instead?
A cornucopia of opiates have flooded my head
I'm sustained by the sound,
Of the angels singing me to sleep,
While my feet are leaving the ground,
Am I dead? Or am I dreaming instead?
A cornucopia of opiates have flooded my head
I'm insane, I am smart,
All it takes, is a spark, to ignite my bad intentions,
And do what I do best to your heart,
Don't be fooled I was raised by the wolves,
Now the moon hangs in full, so you know I won't play by the rules
All it takes, is a spark, to ignite my bad intentions,
And do what I do best to your heart,
Don't be fooled I was raised by the wolves,
Now the moon hangs in full, so you know I won't play by the rules
I will never spill
(spill my blood for you)
You have let me down
(one too many times)
Someway somehow, we've fallen out,
Caught in between my enemies,
No way not now, I won't back down,
I draw the line at you and me,
Your what I started, now disregarded,
One day they'll see, it was always me
(spill my blood for you)
You have let me down
(one too many times)
Someway somehow, we've fallen out,
Caught in between my enemies,
No way not now, I won't back down,
I draw the line at you and me,
Your what I started, now disregarded,
One day they'll see, it was always me
Due to mistakes, I have made to the state,
I…
I…
Friday, August 9, 2019
The Spiritual Child. Quotes III
-What makes us spiritual is our awareness that our lives, our relationships, and the natural world both seen and unseen are filled with an ultimate presence.
-Is it the case that good guys tend to be spiritual? Yes.
-People with greater hunger and pursuit of spiritual transcendence were viewed by other people as more self-actualized, emotionally balanced, and delighted in living.
-From early adolescence to emerging adulthood, we live through the most intense surge into spiritual arrival.
-How can we help support and encourage natural spirituality?
-Spiritual development foundational to adolescent development, and if it is not supported, we often see other failed attempts to achieve direction, connection, and a sense of transcendence and inner peace, through substance abuse, risk taking, and casual sex.
-With spiritual growth also come the positive psychology assets shown to accompany spirituality: thriving, optimism, grit, and the relational assets of forgiveness, intimacy, and commitment.
-Another way to conceptualize this idea is to imagine a view high above ourselves and our situation, looking down and through and in; this view from the mountaintop is the view by the higher self, or observing eye.
-When we meditate, we feel less revved up for fight or flight.
-We can see the broad and pervasive positive effects of seeing life from the seat of the higher self, which is filled with the clarity, perspective, and wisdom of the knower.
-A state of craving in our inner life means we never feel satisfied.
-When participants shift their mind to the transcendent relationship, there is a cessation of blood flow in the region of the brain associated with craving.
-Is it the case that good guys tend to be spiritual? Yes.
-People with greater hunger and pursuit of spiritual transcendence were viewed by other people as more self-actualized, emotionally balanced, and delighted in living.
-From early adolescence to emerging adulthood, we live through the most intense surge into spiritual arrival.
-How can we help support and encourage natural spirituality?
-Spiritual development foundational to adolescent development, and if it is not supported, we often see other failed attempts to achieve direction, connection, and a sense of transcendence and inner peace, through substance abuse, risk taking, and casual sex.
-With spiritual growth also come the positive psychology assets shown to accompany spirituality: thriving, optimism, grit, and the relational assets of forgiveness, intimacy, and commitment.
-Another way to conceptualize this idea is to imagine a view high above ourselves and our situation, looking down and through and in; this view from the mountaintop is the view by the higher self, or observing eye.
-When we meditate, we feel less revved up for fight or flight.
-We can see the broad and pervasive positive effects of seeing life from the seat of the higher self, which is filled with the clarity, perspective, and wisdom of the knower.
-A state of craving in our inner life means we never feel satisfied.
-When participants shift their mind to the transcendent relationship, there is a cessation of blood flow in the region of the brain associated with craving.
The Spiritual Child by Lisa Miller. Quotes II
-We are so very much more, from our chidren's wondrous arrival into our lives to their rounds of questioning and development, when we pay attention and we reflect, we can see great things through their spiritual lens.
-What is this parenting journey is actually the ultimate spiritual journey.
-We are also aware of the psychological toll on kids who are over-scheduled and under chronic pressure to perform, and we want to preserve childhood as a joyful, explorative and carefree time.
-Spirituality is an inner sense of relationship to a higher power that is loving and guiding.
-Spiritual development is the growth and progression of our inborn spirituality.
-The way in which a parent supports a child's spiritual development has a great deal to do with how a child grows into that rich spiritual potential.
-People with a developed spirituality gets sick less, are happier, and feel more connected and less isolated.
-The brains of spiritually engaged people when simply resting with closed eyes is the same wavelength as that of a monk during mediation.
-Spiritual individuation has a paradox. It is grueling, yet eminently satisfying, uplifting, and mind-opening.
-An adolescent with a strong personal with the higher power.
-Authentic spirituality requires reflection and the development of a road back to transcendence through the cultivation of our inner life, through prayer, meditation or perhaps good works, intertwined with our general capacities of cognition, morality, and emotion.
-You are never mistaken for supporting a child's spiritual self.
-The difficult lies not in solving problems but in expressing them.
-All she had to do to support his daughter was to pay attention.
-The precious opportunity before you is that you child is giving you an opening and saying: Hey, come with me. You don't need to know where you are going, or how you are going to get there, you are simply asked to go with her. Our children look to us, but not really for the answers. We're being asked to show up. We need to show up, but we don't need to have all the answers.
-What is this parenting journey is actually the ultimate spiritual journey.
-We are also aware of the psychological toll on kids who are over-scheduled and under chronic pressure to perform, and we want to preserve childhood as a joyful, explorative and carefree time.
-Spirituality is an inner sense of relationship to a higher power that is loving and guiding.
-Spiritual development is the growth and progression of our inborn spirituality.
-The way in which a parent supports a child's spiritual development has a great deal to do with how a child grows into that rich spiritual potential.
-People with a developed spirituality gets sick less, are happier, and feel more connected and less isolated.
-The brains of spiritually engaged people when simply resting with closed eyes is the same wavelength as that of a monk during mediation.
-Spiritual individuation has a paradox. It is grueling, yet eminently satisfying, uplifting, and mind-opening.
-An adolescent with a strong personal with the higher power.
-Authentic spirituality requires reflection and the development of a road back to transcendence through the cultivation of our inner life, through prayer, meditation or perhaps good works, intertwined with our general capacities of cognition, morality, and emotion.
-You are never mistaken for supporting a child's spiritual self.
-The difficult lies not in solving problems but in expressing them.
-All she had to do to support his daughter was to pay attention.
-The precious opportunity before you is that you child is giving you an opening and saying: Hey, come with me. You don't need to know where you are going, or how you are going to get there, you are simply asked to go with her. Our children look to us, but not really for the answers. We're being asked to show up. We need to show up, but we don't need to have all the answers.
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