Big Ideas tagged with "Nature"
- Eric Butterworth: To Be
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Beautiful Compensations
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature & Geniuses
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Reaping a Destiny
- George Leonard: Getting Energy for Mastery
- Viktor Frankl: The "Why?"
- Joseph Campbell: Love Your Fate
- Deepak Chopra: Lose Your Fear
- Ken Wilber: Spiral Dynamics
- Robert Fritz: Souls Don't Compromise
- Rumi: A Jihad Warrior
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature's Compensation
- Marcus Aurelius: A Surplus of Time
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature is Not Capricious
- John Eliot, Ph.D.: Let It Happen
- Seneca: Vision
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Just imagine you're four years old, and someone makes the following proposal: If you'll wait until after he runs an errand, you can have two marshmallows for a treat. If you can't wait until then, you can have only one--but you can have it right now. It is a challenge sure to try the soul of any four-year-old, a microcosm of the eternal battle between impulse and restraint, id and ego, desire and self-control, gratification and delay... There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their very nature, led to one or another impulse to act.
~ Daniel Goleman quotes from Emotional Intelligence; p. 80-81
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Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.
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Never make your appeal to a man's better nature; he may not have one. Always make your appeal to his self-interest.
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Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no great than those around you.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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There’s nothing capricious in nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it.
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The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity. Its object is not personal Mukti, although Mukti is a necessary condition of the yoga, but the liberation and transformation of the human being. It is not personal Ananda, but the bringing down of the divine Ananda – Christ's kingdom of heaven, our Satyayuga – upon the earth.
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
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A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
~ Vernon Howard quotes from The Power of Your Supermind
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Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
~ Vernon Howard quotes from Mystic Path to Cosmic Power
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Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
~ Stephen R. Covey quotes from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
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You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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The only way you can find it is through being alone with your thoughts at sufficiently long intervals to give that inner voice within you a chance to cry out in distinguishable language for you. ‘Here I am within you.’ That is the silent voice, the voice of nature, which speaks to everyone who will listen.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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Evolution goes beyond what went before, but because it must embrace what went before, then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus it has an inherent directionality, a secret impulse, toward increasing depth, increasing intrinsic value, increasing consciousness. In order for evolution to move at all, it must move in those directions—there’s no place else for it to go!
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Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Nature
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I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.
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Man is only true to himself when he surpasses the limitations inherent in his nature.
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