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Originally Posted by Mathew
I'm bored so I get roped into egotistical battles with others,
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For Mathew....
A Sufi teaching tells of the man who visited a great mystic to find out how to let go of his chains of attachment and his prejudices.
Instead of answering him directly, the mystic jumped to his feet and bolted to a nearby pillar, flung his arms around it,
grasping the marble surface as he screamed, "Save me from this pillar! Save me from this pillar!"
The man who had asked the question could not believe what he saw. He thought the mystic was mad.
"Why are you doing that?" the man asked. "I came to you to ask a spiritual question because I thought you were wise,
but obviously you're crazy. You are holding the pillar, the pillar is not holding you. You can simply let go."
The mystic let go of the pillar and said to the man, "If you can understand that, you have your answer.
Your chains of attachment are not holding you, you are holding them. You can simply let go."
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"The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love." - Jack Kornfield
"It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them
and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them.
Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on,
we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses.
Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away."" - Kenich Ohmae
"A cardinal principle of the Spiritual Warrior is: It is not what is happening that is important;
what is important is what you are doing with it.
Thus the Spiritual Warrior says, "Regardless of what it looks like, regardless of my perception,
I will use everything for my advancement, upliftment, and growth." - John Roger
"Mindfulness refers to keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality.
It is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"The limits you create will be real to you until you learn to step beyond them.
Then they will cease to be real. Then, you will look back at the reality you used to inhabit and feel claustrophobic,
wondering how you were able to stand its narrow confines." - Paul Ferrini
"By attempting to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we are giving away our power to some other individual or organization.
In this way, millions daily attempt to escape from freedom." - M. Scott Peck
"You have the power to control your own destiny. You may not feel at all comfortable with that,
or want to own up to the responsibility it implies, yet it is true nonetheless.
You may complain that there are so many powerful and overwhelming outside forces acting upon you that nothing you do will matter.
Yet everything you do matters to the highest degree in creating your own destiny.
For your destiny is not about what comes to you. It is about who you choose to become.
Your destiny is not really about what happens to you. It is built and fulfilled by the things that you cause to happen,
by what you do with the precious life you have. It happens in every moment, with every choice,
with every thought and every action. Always, you are creating your own unique destiny." - Ralph Marston
"Our soul work...is to repair ourselves, to heal into wholeness.
It is, simply put, to identify and remove whatever gets in the way of being truly who we are.
It is the task of uncovering our authentic self from the encrustations that overlay it, concealing it from us." - M.J. Abadie
"Life can bring us to the edge of who we think we are: our sense of self, our capacity to love,
our personal ambition and vision and what it all means to us.
And from this view from the edge, we will find that we are far greater.
From this place at the edge, we enter the unknown personal frontier of the broken-open heart.
This experience of life holds a great gift, found only by those with courage to enter their own heart with eyes wide open." - Julie Interrante
"The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new." - Pema Chodron
"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside." - Wayne Dyer
"We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces; we become the powerful force ourselves. " - Leo Buscaglia
"We can only give away to others what we have inside ourselves." - Wayne Dyer
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem." - Theodore Rubin
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung
"A being who's awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated." - Ram Dass
"We human beings have many prevailing perceptions we share as a culture.
These perceptions are the prevalent beliefs our society accepts as true, generally without question.
Many of these shared perceptions form the basis of our human awareness.
If we do not make the effort to question whether or not a perception is actually true,
it will automatically become part of our belief system and, consequently our experience,
whether they are true or not." - Victoria Loveland-Coen
"True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom." - Jack Canfield
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself,
but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." - Marcus Aurelius
"There is a distance between believing the Truth and embodying that Truth. " - Mary Manin Morrissey
"If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.
In fact, your heart is made to break, it's purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonder." - Andrew Harvey
"Applied to other people, forgiveness is a process through which we seek to free ourselves
from the bondage to another person that is maintained for as long as we stand in judgment of them." - Joan Borysenko
"This may shock you, but I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude.
It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain,
what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position.
Attitude is that "single string" that keeps me going or cripples my progress.
It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there's no barrier too high,
no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me." - Charles R. Swindoll
"As you create expectations of people or situations, as you create opinions of what should or
should not be taking place with yourself and others, you create your dilemmas." - John Roger
"A person is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions." - James Allen
"To develop a more or less accurate self-image...
is simply to gain a comprehensive awareness of those facets of yourself which you didn't know existed.
And these facets are easily spotted because they show up as your symptoms." - Ken Wilber
"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul." - Carl Jung
"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." - The Gnostic Christ (Dead Sea Scrolls)
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Goethe
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people." - Carl Jung
"You are powerful beyond anything you've ever imagined, but then you have to recognise responsibility.
You are personally responsible for everything in your life, once you become aware that you are personally responsible for everything in your life." - Bruce Lipton
."As soon as you start to tell yourself in your perception that you can't do something anymore,
then your biological system will adjust to prove you right. You will not do what you think you can't do." - Bruce Lipton
"Read everything, listen to everybody, don't trust anything unless you can prove it with your own research." - William Cooper
"Ultimately, no one can solve our issues for us; we must liberate ourselves.
Our genetic makeup provides the compass, our upbringing sets the compass bearings,
and our choices point us towards our destination.
Indeed, wherever we are - right here and now - gives us our best opportunity to not only evaluate where we are going wrong,
but also to uncover what we are already doing right and keep doing it.
This present moment is the best time for each of us to influence outcomes for the better.
There is no guarantee of success or failure, and the risks we presently face are great,
but how we fare in the future depends on how each of us decides to act right now
- whether we choose to make the positive changes necessary or continue doing more of the same." - Paul Bailey
"Then you have no fear any more...you're completely free." - V - V for Vendetta.
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