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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher]
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"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
Viktor E. Frankl
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Hobozen] 1
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"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
Epictetus
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
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"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
Charles Darwin
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: Bayneling] 1
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"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise, and thinking that having problems is a problem."
Theodore Rubin
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: Kuhl] 1
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Great quote! Hey, I just purchases a spinning top just like that one, in your post!
"I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn't believe them, I didn't suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that."
Byron Katie
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: Kurt]
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"Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves."
Eric Hoffer (The True Believer)
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maynardjameskeenan said: “If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all.”
- Yogi Bhajan
Excellent! That's awesome.
As a society, we don't talk much about reactivity as the cause of anger.
And I like the lovingkindness mantra in your signature
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
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"The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self."
Albert Einstein
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Kurt] 1
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"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
Anne Lamott
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
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"If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."
Thomas Szasz
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Hobozen] 1
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"We all want to be famous people - and the moment we want to be something, we are no longer free"
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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"There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations."
Jodi Picoult
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"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."
Eric Hoffer
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
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Better late then never. Unless never is preferable.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
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"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."
Thomas Szasz
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Hobozen]
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"If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father."
Deuteronomy 22:28-29
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
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"To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.”
Hermann Hesse
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#22816321 - 01/23/16 06:34 PM (8 years, 6 days ago) |
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I like that one a lot!
Most of our misery is rooted in the irrational belief life should be different than it is.
It's common to view suffering as a "problem", instead of a doorway to growth.
The concept of heaven, a life where nobody struggles or suffers, is based in ignorance.
When we reject reality, we enter the trance of resistance, which is a neighborhood in Hell.
Our words reveal how we resist was is, and wish for things to be different.
"The weather is terrible."
"My neighbor drives me crazy."
"The lines at the grocery store were horrible."
"They had a bad marriage."
"Something is wrong with my car."
"Traffic was horrendous yesterday."
"She has a lot of problems"
"That kid's behavior is atrocious."
"I hate doing the laundry."
(and on and on and on)
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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Icelander said: A first world perspective. I doubt it applies to the starving baby in Africa.
The pain of a starving child in Africa is no different than the pain of a child with leukemia born of wealthy American parents.
There's a distinction between pain and suffering. For everyone, pain is inevitable. But suffering is self-inflicted.
Most human misery is self-inflicted. Depression, anxiety and addiction are examples of how we cause our own suffering.
It's the origin of the phrase, "I'm my own worst enemy."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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Icelander said: That baby starving in africa finds no benefit in their suffering because they cannot think about it. Brain function is compromised from malnutrition and there is also the issue of brain development due to age.
Babies in any state of health don't ponder their cognitive functioning.
Concepts and methods regarding mental health don't pertain to babies.
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