I came across some interesting quotes that...well...frankly...support many of the assertions I have made in several of my blogs...and these things I believe to be true...at least I can say they ring with truth to me...enjoy.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Carl Jung
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha <--This one is Mindfulness
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
Lao Tzu
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mohandas Gandhi
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Plato
You shape your own destiny.
Chet Atkins
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao Tzu
Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
Wayne Dyer
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
Buddha
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl Jung
We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.
Phil McGraw
It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
John Bradshaw
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
Wayne Dyer
He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
Lao Tzu
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
Buddha <--This one is Systems Theory
I eventually gave up being an analyst. You had to be too passive and not speak up.
Albert Ellis
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Wayne Dyer
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Aristotle
Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.
Chet Atkins
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Action expresses priorities.
Mohandas Gandhi
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates
He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.
Lao Tzu
Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Lao Tzu
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
Buddha
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
Standing Bear
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
Buddha
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
Mother Teresa
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tzu
Be careful for what you are shooting for...because you are likely to hit it.
Doc Mompean <--OK OK...I couldn't resist throwing one of my own quotes in LOL
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
Lao Tzu
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.
Socrates
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Lao Tzu
What do you think?
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OK... you've made me feel and laugh !!
I like knowing that these are sources for your intellect.
I will attempt to refute, expand upon and perhaps ask for your thoughts.
AnounYmouse
"Children are cultured by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."
Carl Jung
Good old Carl,
In this..., Carl chooses his words wisely.
I have to guess this is a counter remark to the ideology, turn of phrase; “Do as I say, not as I do.”
People often are refined by what they experience, more so, than by reading about the quality in a person/s.
AnounYmouse
"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."
Lao Tzu
I find it worthy to point out. I have been taught that, throughout most early Eastern religious/philosophy there is a belief that thoughts originate from a region close to the navel.
Answers arise from the questions. So, Tzu has not completed the process… First, your question must be complete. From that whole, inquiry can proceed. Sometimes,you'll be amazed by where answers dwell.
<< Perhaps this is an original thought of mine...>>
You are what you think; other people think you are.
AnonYmouse
With all seriousness...
In the statement by Carl Jung, if the word "educated" was exchanged for "learning" would you consider the meaning altered?
AnounYmouse
"What do I think?"
Why not try, "What deid yawl thank?"
Say it quickly, and you sound like a Texan...
The Conscientious (Egoist) Solipsist
He is a believer in a great many things. Being very earnest in his work and looking outwardly on the attitudes and activities of others, and encouraged by his own conviction. He is joyfully attached to his form of belief, and in an unusual manner uninvolved. Denying or sacrificing of himself or his family for what he believed. He is learned and his writing mimics the poetic.
His manner is perceived as meek and sensitive, especially with regard to humanity, but he holds distant and peculiar in his silence. He is unique, the gift-giver; he knows and is certain.
In the practice of serious talk, he remarked at the limited usefulness of life, and the illusions of security and rational thought. And expressed distain towards society, certain world leaders, and oppositional authority. He has some personal weaknesses and certain troubles in commitment, he added, but God would move him. And held an explicit avoidance to detail his thoughts.
His whole interest and energy lay in his conviction that we all are being led with special intent. At some length he spoke of strife, despair, and unjustifiable circumstances and deliverance. His life is full of symbolism, each thing compared to another in order to derive meaning. He works ceaselessly to integrate his collection of affirmations.
He is devoted to his becoming, with his achievement and growth. He does not see that this desire denies harmony, composure and happiness. And provides his self-expansion to contradiction and confusion. The desire for “ones own growth” is an illusion born of self-importance.
Belief is not reality…
AnonYmouse
Her life personal life was burdened with effort to develop fortitude, prudence, temperance... One achievement amounts to another, temporary accolades. In this process she can never be at peace, peacefulness is not a result either of practice or of time. Peace of mind is a state of understanding, and trying only blocks her from understanding.
She expresses her effort to be virtouse. She remarks at her superior sensitivities and efforts to change the wickedness. She listens without indicating judgment or self-preoccupation. From her attitude and speech it appeared that she was charitable and somewhat impatient and irritated with those who were not of her mood and purpose.
The mind practices virtue for the reward of taking. This attraction fulfills the desire to consume, and echoes in all things she does. This taking in of things, the appreciation for virtue, does not make one virtuous. Momentary cessation of desire is a distraction. . A mind that practices virtue for the reward of pleasing is envious.
In turn she holds hope on turning recognition into reality. What you attain is not reality, but your own self-projected desire.
30 days until He ascends apoun the Souther-Cross
AnonYmouse
"...astral theory of the universe is not an outcome of popular thought, but the result of a long process of speculative reasoning carried on in restricted learned circles. Even astrology, which theory presupposes a foundation, is not a product of primitive popular fancies but is rather an advanced scientific hypothesis."
The determination of the four cardinal points by means of the rising and setting of the sun, for use in the orientation of temples, was known from the very earliest antiquity.
When you see the Southern Cross
For the first time
You understand now...
But it's as big as the promise
The promise of a comin' day....
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
In knowing the lexicon of English, the potential for subtleness with the written word, understanding in the subject and author, can awareness above the common consideration be achieved?
Let us try this, for the purpose of edification.
Synonyms for the word understanding:
Sympathetic, thoughtful, kind, accepting, indulgent, perceptive, appreciative, considerate…
Can each or anyone of these “similar meaning” words substitute for the word understanding in the assertion? Let’s try substituting with: kind, appreciate, know.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we kind about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little appreciation about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we know about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
"With a first step, we gain understanding in the limitation of our stride. From that, determining our rate to progress can be estimated...."
The Winter Solstice is the low point of the four seasons because it’s the shortest day of the year. The day when the eternal source of life, the sun, gets as close as it gets to putting us into the big sleep. Everything gets better from that point on, although there is still winter to go through. The coldest days are yet to come but we have hope.
Santa Clause, Easter Bunny, ... When did these beliefs cease to be reality?
AnonYmouse
Acumen, Belief and Reality
He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.
Lao Tzu
A slightly personal history lesson
My first in depth introduction into the Tao was slightly more than 10 years ago.
During which time an old friend was discovering ” thoughts on wisdom”, he achieved this through the use of a book. His book was a collection of compiled idioms. One these fragments of collected wisdom he uttered while on a trek. In this, he proposed to show his refined appreciation for the profound and impress upon me too. I think it went something like this; “Wisdom is the light of the lamp of truth to guide mankind through darkness”
Without hesitation I replied; “What good is a lamp to a man born without sight? A man who knows the way, needs no light to guide him… such is a blind man”
This gave him pause for thought... did this give rise to a progression of change in his being? The answer today, as then remains no…
I have questioned the value of wisdom.
Education is the best provision for old age.
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
I am at two with nature.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
If you abhor something, don’t you do it too
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Be careful for what you are shooting for...because you are likely to hit it.
Enemies can never be chosen with to much care…because you might be your own worst. ----saw a red circle enclosing a red dot.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Change in all things is sweet.
War brings change, war is not sweet
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. To watch is to observe without choice, to see yourself as you are without any movement of desire to change, which is an extremely arduous thing to do; but that doesn't mean that you are going to remain in your present state. You do not know what will happen if you see yourself as you are without wishing to bring about a change in that which you see. Do you understand?
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.
Understanding can never be made into a habit, a matter of routine; it demands constant watchfulness, alertness. To understand, there must be pliability, sensitivity, a warmth that has nothing to do with sentimentality.
I’ll pass on the last three.
AnonYmouse
More...stuff...
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.Compare ourselves to others, that we might appear to ourselves better or more righteous.
The central message of Buddhism is not "every man for himself".
You know what Nietzsche said about animals? "They were God's second blunder."
Oh, right, to call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!
"Momma always said life was like a box of chocolates--- you never know what you're gonna get."
"It was supposed to happen to someone smart...but it didn't, it happened to me."
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
Apes don't read philosophy...Yes, they do...They just don't understand it....
AnonYmouse
Big Brain Big Aorta
Presume to think, as many self-proclaimed philosophical and religiouse people will, that in you is a True Nature, deeply, primarily, the source of reality; and that you, by cultivating virtue, by following method, ardous effort, sacrifice, control, you will achieve astonishingly original, profound and effective insight to reality. Did you consider that this presumption is just a part of an idea? An idea formed in a conditioned mind, a mind that has been brought to think in a particular way, according to defined mode? Having orchestrated this work, the sound, the theme, the belief, you then excpected to have find radical new meaning in your creation.
AnounYmouse
Erotema,Pymsa,Aetiologia
"much to learn we still have..." Yoda
AnonYmouse
Let me give the Blogger a well deserved Kowtow and lower the tip of my “pen”.
As you might have noticed, from the numerous replies I’ve posted. I have what some say, is an overactive mind. Unfortunately, I don’t know what they mean…But I do comprehend there aggravation.
In whatever manner you take all my ranting and criticisms. I hope you use it as a fortitude. Life is easy and difficult, soft and hard…Some people get more of one and less of another while here. Naming it does what? It is… what it is…
Have a good night Blogger !
AnounYmouse
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