Big Ideas tagged with "Perception"
- Working Out Your Meditation Muscles
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature's Compensation
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Trust Thyself
- Abraham Maslow: The 19 Characteristics of Maslow’s Self-Actualizer
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
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yes is a world& in this world ofyes live(skilfully curled)all worlds
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If you look at your life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.
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Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
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Every exit is an entry somewhere.
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The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Tales of Power
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Journey to Ixtlan
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We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
~ Epictetus quotes from The Enchiridion
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Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.
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Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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When the only tool you have is a hammer, all problems begin to resemble nails.
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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
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...Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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What we call reality is a subset of accessible spaces.
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