“If you wish to be fully alive you must develop a sense of perspective. Life is infinitely greater than this trifle your heart is attached to and which you have given the power to so upset you.”Tagged: Perspective, Life Is Bigger Than You, Ego
“If you wish to be fully alive you must develop a sense of perspective. Life is infinitely greater than this trifle your heart is attached to and which you have given the power to so upset you.”Tagged: Perspective, Life Is Bigger Than You, Ego
“For when you cling, what you offer the other is not love but a chain by which both you and your beloved are bound. Love can only exist in freedom. The true lover seeks the good of his beloved which requires especially the liberation of the beloved from the lover.”Tagged: Freedom, Expand Love, Liberation
“If you experience life as a communist or a capitalist, as a Muslim or a Jew, you are experiencing life in a prejudiced, slanted way; there is a barrier, a layer of fat between Reality and you because you no longer see and touch it directly.”Tagged: Identity, Biases, The Biases of Being Alive, Belief, Coated Eyes
“What is death? A loss, a disappearance, a letting go, a saying good-bye. When you cling you refuse to let go, you refuse to say good-bye, you resist death. And even though you may not realize it, that is when you resist life too.”Tagged: Death, Dying, Loss, Defining Death
“Recall the kind of feeling you have when someone praises you, when you are approved, accepted, applauded.”Tagged: first lines of books, Good Feelings, Postive Reinforcement
“If you hold on to an idea about someone, then you no longer love that person but your idea of that person.”Tagged: strategy