Big Ideas tagged with "War"
- Fear Doesn’t Go Away
- Byron Katie: Whose Business Are You In?
- Rumi: A Jihad Warrior
- David Emerald: Baby Steps
- Steven Pressfield: Your Calling Is Calling
- Evolve! Evolve!
- Marcus Aurelius: Your Destiny Is Waiting
- Dale Carnegie: Rest *BEFORE* You Get Tired
- Carlos Castaneda: Blink of an Eye
- Carlos Castaneda: No Stress Success
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When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work toward a definite objective or purpose, they place themselves in a position, through the alliance, to absorb the power directly from the great storehouse of Infinite Intelligence.
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Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual or potential intelligence. We had one dimension of mental ability along which we could array everyone... The whole concept has to be challenged; in fact, it has to be replaced.
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In the course of heir careers in the American schools of today, most students take hundreds, if not thousands, of tests. They develop skill to a highly calibrated degree in an exercise that will essentially become useless immediately after their last day in school.
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Well, I have considered myself to be very fortunate in that I have been able to do mostly only that which my inner self told me to do… I am also aware that I do receive much criticism from the outside world for what I do and some people actually get angry at me. But this does not really touch me because I feel that these people do not live in he same world as do I.
~ Albert Einstein quotes from The Private Albert Einstein; p. 110
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Adults gifted with perceptivity are those who can hear the flowers singing within others not yet aware of their own gifts… [They are able to] understand the meaning of personal symbols and to see beyond the superficiality of a situation to the person beneath... People who are gifted at "seeing" often seem to have a touch of magic about them... Jane Austen, Langston Hughes, Anne Hutchinson, William Shakespeare, and Henry David Thoreau are all examples.
~ Dr. Deidre Lovecky quotes from Article "Can You Hear the Flowers Singing?"
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We see the essential divinity underlying the whole of the world's process of growth, and the fundamental rightness of helping that immense work forward as best we can in the time we have… The dichotomy between self and others, between responding to others' needs and taking care of one's own disappears, as one acquires the practical wisdom to see the intrinsic legitimacy of both and the relative priority of each.
~ John Firman quotes from Dimensions of Growth; p. 117-118
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If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be is the support of other people.
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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods… So let us celebrate the struggle!
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We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
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A simple grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
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...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.
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The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.
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I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination
~ William Blake quotes from Jerusalem
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Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.
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All victims have experienced a loss—a thwarted desire or aspiration—even if they’re not aware of it.
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The focus in the Creator Orientation is on a Vision or an Outcome. You orient your thoughts and actions toward creating what you most deeply want to see or experience in life.
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All that a man is outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively he must think clearly. To act nobly he must think nobly.
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Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all things, see to it that you do not hold malice or enmity toward any one; to do so cuts you off from the mind whose treasures you seek to make your own. Lay aside all narrow personal ambition and determine to seek the highest good.
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