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“The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A loving person lives in a loving world
A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
Everyone you meet is your mirror.”
Ken Keyes, JR., Handbook to Higher Consciousness
“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do, and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.” Samuel Smiles
“You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want or a grief. But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.” Kahlil Gibran
“As a progressive and evolving being. Man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him it passes away to other circumstances.” James Allen, As A Man Thinketh.
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” Robertson Davies, quoted in the Wordswoth Dictionary of Quote
“A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.” Seneca, Thyestes
“As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.” Martin Luther King, speech August 16, 1967
“Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.” Hans Margolius, quoted in A Toolbox For Humanity.
“The Empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” Winston Churchhill, speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943
“To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.” Henry Ford, Theosophist Magazine, February, 1930
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.” John Milton, Paradise Lost.
“Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.” Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820.
“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.” -Joseph Conrad
“Intuition is a spiritual faculty high above the reasoning mind, but on that path is all that you desire and require.” Florence Scovel Shinn (FSS) page 220.
“Prayer is telephoning to God, and intuition is God telephoning to you.” (FSS) page 337.
“‘Choose you this day whom ye will serve,’ the intellect or divine guidance.” Joshua 24:15, (FSS) page 222.
“Let your intuition be your compass and it will always get you out of the woods.”(FSS) page 337.
Florence Scovel Shinn, The Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn, 4 Complete Books, The Game of Life, The Power of the Spoken Word, Your Word is Your Wand, The Secret of Success.
“Who are you? said the caterpillar… “I hardly know, Sir, just at present,” Alice replied rather shyly, “at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have changed several times since then.” -Lewis Carrol, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, (page 7 in Transitions).
“It takes a long time to be really married. One marries many times at many levels within a marriage. If you have more marriages than you have divorces within the marriage, you’re lucky and you stick it out.” -Ruby Dee, In Brian Lanker, I Dream a World, (page 55 in Transitions).
“People change and forget to tell each other.” -Lillian Hellman, Toys in the Attic, (page 55 in Transitions).
“Whoever in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a (person’s) life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.” -Wolfgang Von Goethe, (page 77 in Transitions).
“He has half the deed done, who has made a beginning.” -Horace, Epistles (page 157 in Transitions).
“Not in his goals but in his transitions man is great.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol 5 (page 177 in Transitions).
The above quotes are found in Transitions, Making Sense Of Life’s Changes, by William Bridges. This is a very helpful and must read book if you are going through any transitions or changes in life. The book covers transitions, endings, going through the neutral zone, and new beginnings.
“For the nature of the superconscious is to be solution-oriented. To tune in to that aspect of your nature which, ultimatley, can truly command your destiny – don’t dwell on the problems you face. Don’t, on the other hand, ignore your problems. But exert your will in the full expectation that a solution to every problem can be found.”
“You’ll be amazed, if you follow this practice, how quickly the right answers come to you. You won’t behold the fences around you any longer. They’ll simply cease to exist for you. You’ll see beyond them, to the broad meadows and high mountains of expanded awareness, and expanded power.”
“At all times be solution-oriented!”
J. Donald Walters, Money Magnetism, How To Attract What You Need When You Need It, page 118 & 119.
“You can now begin to contemplate how you can deliberately will creative construction; you can do it by consciously formulating, thinking, and willing, a state of happiness, aliveness, fulfillment, truth, love, growth, both in general and in particular detail. The climate of this may first seem strange and unfamiliar. You need to acclimatize yourself to it. Picture yourself in such states and call upon the universal power within to fortify your conscious mind with the necessary creative energy. The will to happiness must be so strong that the causes for unhappiness must be seen and eliminated, and this, too, must truly be wanted. Then the creative power will grow; the divine self will inspire you and show the way. You will learn to recognize it and receive it in your conscious brain.”
Eva Pierrakos, The Pathwork Of Self-Transformation, page 222.
“But you can significantly reduce the amount of negative judging that you do, and this is a kind of forgiveness that will help to improve the quality of your life dramatically. The first thing to remember about judgments is that they do not alter anything or anyone in the universe. Just because you dislike someone or react negatively toward some behavior does not change the person or the behavior you are judging. I remind you again to keep in mind that when you judge another, you do not define that person, you define yourself. Your judgments only say something about you. They describe your likes and dislikes. They do not define the person being judged. That person is being defined by his or her own thoughts and actions. Once you recognize this, you begin replacing your inclination to judge with acceptance, and this is forgiveness in action.”
“When you accept others, you no longer experience the hurt that goes with judging them. When someone acts in a way you find disagreeable, understand that your hurt, anger, fear, or any strong emotion is how you have chosen to process that person’s behavior. If you are unable or unwilling to notice that emotion and subsequently let go of it, then it is your self that is in need of the attention. That person’s behavior has collided with something unfinished or unacknowledged in your life. Distress at the person’s behavior is your way of avoiding something inside of you. A fine distincion, perhaps, but a very significant one.”
Wayne W. Dyer, You’ll See It When You Believe It, page 276.
“…To do this requires one to have a radical trust in God at work in his life or her life. As we embrace this trust, we find that the very force that shook our world and caused it to collapse around us – the force that we first resisted, then gradually accepted, and now align with – was the force that brought us home to our true Self. We are reminded of the man who said, “I prayed to God when the foundations of my life were being shaken…only to find that it was God that was shaking them!”
“So we begin to trust the ’shakings,’ and we no longer resist the force the crumbles the structure of our life. What we once called a tragedy, we now see as an opportunity for greater freedom, wisdom, and power – not to be feared, but actually welcomed.”
Robert Brumet, Finding Yourself in Transition, Using Life’s Changes for Spiritual Awakening, page 150.
