| We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle
When you say to yourself, 'That's the way I am am,' you imply
there is no possibility of change. Analysis is, in this sense,
almost always pessimistic. Focusing, by contrast, is optimistic.
It is based on the very positive expectation of change. It doesn't
envision a human being as a fixed structure whose shape can
be analyzed once and for all. It envisions a person as a process,
capable of continual change and forward movement. This 'problem'
inside you are only those parts of the process that have been
stopped and the aim of focusing is to unstop them and get the
process moving again.
- Eugene
Gendlin, Focusing
It seems to me that if we can imagine the injustice then we
can imagine its opposite.
- Paul Keating, (sampled in From
little things big things grow)
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind
don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest
fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light,
not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who
am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually,
who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing
small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened
about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around
you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born
to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not
just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own
light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to
do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson, Our
Deepest Fear
You don't know me from a bar of soap.
- Popular expression
Play out of your skin.
- Popular
expression
The important thing, is to be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become.
- Charles DuBois
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
One size fits all.
- Popular phrase
Don't go to Europe to find yourself. Who told you were
over there anyway?
- Steven
Colbert
He began to think that who you are when you're with somebody
may matter more than whether you love her.
- Anne Tyler, The
Accidental Tourist
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became
that person. Or he became me.
- Cary Grant
National borders -- they're like speed bumps.
- Bruce Sterling, Make
No Decision Out of Fear (Podcast)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am for
myself only, what am I?
- Hillel
I was born in a small town.
- John Mellencamp
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had
already been dead for a year.
- Tom
Lehrer
If you try to be everything to everyone, you give everyone
a reason to love you. And hate you.
- Conversation
Dualism creates a consciousness, and with it institutions and
structures, of either/or. One is either good or bad, male or
female, strong or weak, spiritual or sensual, for example. Dialectical
consciousness is about both/and thinking, both/and relationships
... One reason why the creation tradition is so deeply grounded
in dialectical as distinct from from dualistic consciousness
is that the way in which humans see themselves as related to
nature ... 'We are nature seeing nature,' as Susan Griffin so
aptly puts it. How can separation -- which all dualism presumes
-- continue in such a situation?
- Matthew
Fox, Original
Blessing
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the
same time.
- Thomas Merton
If an ass goes traveling, he will not come home a horse.
- Thomas
Fuller
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