Bet On It! Food For Thought - 47 - The Story We Tell Ourselves

1. My Reaction To Events Is Not Caused By The Event But By My Conditioning. 2. My Conditioning Is Caused By My Culture, Past Events & Modeling Of Authority Figures. 3. My Conditioning Has Caused A Self Image To Be Created. 4. This Self Image Is Known As The Ego. 5. The Ego Is An Accumulation Of Stories I Have Told Myself About My Identity. 6. Each Story I Have Told Is Based On A Lie About Myself That Hides My True Nature. 7. Releasing The Story, I Return To My True Nature. 8. My True Nature Is Peace. 9. Therefore I Will Be At Peace With What Is - Brett Jones
It Is Not The Pursuit Of Greater & Greater States Of Happiness & Bliss That Leads To Enlightenment, But The Yearning For Reality & The Rabid Dissatisfaction With Living Anything Less Than A Fully Authentic Life - Adyashanti
You Don't Need A Reason To Help People.
It Was Apparent That Materialism Was In Control Of The Economic Structure, The Final Objective Of Which Was For The Individual To Become Part Of A System Providing An Economic Security At The Expense Of The Human Soul, Mind & Body
We Can Only Escape From The World By Outgrowing The World. Death May Take Man Out Of The World But Only Wisdom Can Take The World Out Of The Man. As Long As The Human Being Is Obsessed By Worldliness, He Will Suffer From The Karmic Consequences Of False Allegiances. When However, Worldliness Is Transmuted Into Spiritual Integrity He Is Free, Even Though He Still Dwells Physically Among Worldly Things- Manly P. Hall
Time Decides Who You Meet In Life, Your Heart Decides Who You Want In Your Life, Your Behavior Decides Who Stays In Your Life.
If You Want To Be Powerful In Life, Educate Yourself, Master Yourself.
Be Mindful. Be Grateful. Be Positive. Be True. Be Kind - Roy T. Bennett
What Do You Regard As The Lowest Depths Of Misery? Living In Fear - David Bowie
The Pendulum Of The Mind Oscillates Between Sense & Nonsense, Not Between Right & Wrong - C.G. Jung
Train Hard, Sweat, Finish, Bow & Say 'Thank You' For The Opportunity To Sweat - Shojiro Koyama
To Understand The Immeasurable, The Mind Must Be Extraordinarily Quiet, Still - Jiddhu Krishnamurti
Live Simply. Love Generously. Speak Truthfully. Breathe Deeply. Do Your Best. Do What You Love. Let Shit Go.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Imagine How Much Better Our World Would Be If We Were Taught From A Young Age It Was Our Responsibility To Make The World Better. And Not, As We Are Taught That We Should Cast A Vote Once Every Few Years For Someone Else To Take Care Of That - Steve Beson
I, For One, Will Join In With Anyone - I Don't Care What Color You Are - As Long As You Want To Change This Miserable Condition That Exists On This Earth - Malcolm X
Truth Has To Be Repeated Constantly, Because Error Also Is Being Preached All The Time, & Not Just By A Few, But By The Multitude. In The Press & Encyclopedias, In Schools & Universities, Everywhere Error Holds Sway, Feeling Happy & Comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority On Its Side - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Once The Storm Is Over, You Won’t Remember How You Made It Through, How You Managed To Survive. But One Thing Is Certain. When You Come Out Of The Storm, You Won’t Be The Same Person Who Walked In. That Is The Reason For The Storm - Haruki Murakami
Truth Does Not Change Because It Is, Or Is Not, Believed By A Majority Of The People - Giordano Bruno
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time & space. He experiences himself, his thoughts & feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires & to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures & the whole of nature in its beauty. - Albert Einstein
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself ... the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment ... & this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others - Leonardo da Vinci
Love All, Trust A Few, Do Wrong To Known - William Shakspeare
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice & without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking -Leo Tolstoy
You must unlearn what you have been programmed to believe since birth. That software no longer serves you if you want to live in a world where all things are possible -Jacqueline E. Purcell
All truth passes through 3 stages: 1st, it is ridiculed; 2nd, it is violently opposed; & 3rd, it is accepted as self-evident- Arthur Schopenhauer