its also one of the three biggest lies in the English language - along with 'the checks in the mail' and 'of course I love you baby'
Or as my buddy's dad used to say "The check's in the mail and the chopper's on the way." Obvious which part of the world he spent his formative adult years.
In truth, Kipling's politics are not mine. But then, it would be a poor sort of world if one were only able to read authors who expressed points of view that one agreed with entirely. It would be a bland sort of world if we could not spend time with people who thought differently, and who saw the world from a different place. - Neil Gaiman
"It is important to accept and experience all of our feelings, including the so called negative ones, without attempting to change them. At the same time we can create a new point of view about ourselves by embracing and loving all parts of ourselves not just the parts we already like. As we embrace and express our feelings we create an intimate and loving relationship with ourselves." - Shakti Gawain
"The Growth Mindset: People believe...their talents and abilities can be developed through passion, education and persistence. For them...it's about a commitment to learning - taking informed risks and learning from the results, surrounding yourself with people who will challenge you to grow, looking frankly at your deficiencies and seeking to remedy them." - Carol Dweck
If Britney Spears were paid $1 every time a self-loathing stranger used her as a surrogate for his own failure, she would out earn Warren Buffet in three months. This is why entertainers (and athletes) make so much revenue but are still wildly underpaid: We use them for things that are worth more than money. It's a new kind of dehumanizing slavery — not as awful as the literal variety, but dehumanizing nonetheless. - Chuck Klosterman
"Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life." - Herbert Otto
"A person is buffeted by circumstances so long as one believes themself to be the creature of outside conditions." - James Allen
"Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging." - Joseph Campbell
"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger." - Nietzsche "What doesn't kill me comes damn near killing me, makes me weaker and sicker almost to death, and leaves me with all sorts of tics, irrational fears, PTSD, and other psychological issues. How could it not?" - Me
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie
I hear ya, minstrel, Spoiler: tiny rant... for my many soul troubles, that began in my early pre-teens, took me all the way to a suicide attempt back in 2008. I'm convinced, based on my healing journey, that the basic traits common to all, is all that's required to resolve the bulk of our soul issues, regardless of how ingrained, overwhelming or mysterious they are. The main problem, again, based on experience and talking with and observing others, is our counter productive negative attitudes and beliefs towards such a journey and ourselves is the main thing stopping us from achieving permanent freedom from our inner turmoil. Here's some quotes (of many) of ideas and concepts that I've incorporated over the years to fully heal my soul. Spoiler: quotes and personal thoughts... "He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." - Lao Tzu (and by 'enlightenement, I don't mean "all knowing"; I mean one's soul is dramatically lighter by removing the mountain of turmoil, the self-harming baggage we carry around that we've accumulated from our harsh experiences) "The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough." - Denise Shekerjian "No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking." - John Pierpont Morgan "Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded." - Buddha "All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed, can wrong-doing remain?" - Buddha (and by 'wrong-doing', in this case, I mean the soul damage that causes one to suffer, the wrong-doing we subconsciously do to ourselves) "Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence." - Buddha (liberation from our internal hell) "If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't." - Denis Waitley "The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the negative beliefs we have carried with us from the past and that no longer serve us in the present." - Marianne Williamson "You most likely believe that your experiences have taught you what is real and what is true, at least for you. However, what you may not know is that your beliefs, conscious and unconscious,have determined what you would experience. Experiences do not determine what you believe. What you first of all believe is what you will experience. It follows, then, that if you wish to experience life in new ways, you need to examine your belief systems. Change your consciousness and you'll change your life." - Richard Bach "This may shock you, but I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude is that "single string" that keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there's no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me." - Charles R. Swindoll Attitude - "A manner of thinking, feeling, or behaving that reflects a state of mind or disposition." "By clinging to our pain we depower ourselves. We begin to believe we have no other choice but to feel pain. We argue for our limitations thereby adopting them and limiting ourselves." - Lynn Atkinson "People often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning." - Mahatma Gandhi "The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new." - Pema Chodron "We are all cases of self-fulfilling prophecy. Whatever we prophesize, or believe, about ourselves will come true. This is why it is very important to pay attention to our thoughts -- to make sure we don't let them go on and on unattended. Our thoughts are like misbehaved children -- we need to pay attention to them. Start listening to your self talk. Pay attention to what you're inwardly telling yourself day after day. Then if what you hear isn't prophesizing the results you want, then you can choose to change what you tell yourself." - Marie T. Russell "If you want to follow me to freedom, be prepared to swim upstream, against the river of conditioning. Be prepared to grapple continuously with the fierce flow of negative mental currents. In time our strokes will become effortless and our sense of purpose irresistible." - Buddha (freedom from our own self-harming thoughts and beliefs that cause us so much suffering) "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." - William James "Leave no stone unturned." - Euripides "I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right." - Albert Einstein "No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking." - Francois Voltaire (perseverance, longsuffering) "Eventually, meditation (Mindfullness) will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention is the essence of genius. When we have this mastery over attention in everything we do, we have a genius for life itself: unshakable security, clear judgment, and deep personal relationships." - Eknath Easwaran "Talent hits a target no one else can hit, Genius hits a target no one else can see." - Arthur Schopenhauer "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." - Martin Luther King, Jr. (personal salvation from what ails us might depend on thinking outside the box, going down paths and doing things differently from mainstream wisdom) "Mindfulness refers to keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality. It is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves." - Thich Nhat Hanh (master - self control; restore - heal, resolve, develop, improve) In closing, the extremely harsh situation I was in at the time (suicide season), and logically, all the harsh situations I experienced in the past, never changed. I changed, and now I'm free from all inner turmoil and am now havin' a deeply joyful and contented life, while still experiencing harsh, difficult or unwanted experiences, as one does in this imperfect reality.
"What's particularly frustrating about Gehry's career is that he's somehow meant to be cool, a kind of sci-fi architect for the Millennial generation, a Timothy Leary of CAD; but he's Guy Fieri, his buildings hair-gelled monsters of advanced spatial douchebaggery." Geoff Manaugh
"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." - Chinese Proverb (I think this is applicable with other emotions when they're intense)
As through this world I've traveled I've met lots of funny men Some will rob you with a six-gun And some with a fountain pen." -- Woody Guthrie, "Pretty Boy Floyd"
There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack. - Molly Ivins
"The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who starts to weep somewhere else, another stops. The same is true of a laugh. Let us then not speak ill of our generation. It is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all." -Pozzo "Waiting For Godot" -SIN
