Quotes by Speakers - Page 49

The realm of liberation is absolutely incommensurable with the relativities of higher and lower, better and worse, gain and loss, since these are all disadvantages of the ego.
Alan W. Watts
If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering.
Jeff Goins
That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
Bob Goff
Some people will never know how close they really were to success because they threw in the towel right before their big break.
Dawn Gluskin
Keep a relentless eye on your goals! Perseverance, joyful dedication, and unwavering focus will get you there!
Amy Leigh Mercree
Where you are today and where you want to be lies a gap. That gap is the price you have to pay to get to the top.
Oscar Bimpong
The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection with everything. I was just a tiny speck of consciousness, and yet I was consciousness itself.
Roz Savage
Each person is a vast territory of undiscovered mystery as nebulous and uncharted as the deepest oceans and expanses of space.
Bryant McGill
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way
Alan W. Watts
For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
Alan W. Watts
If we get rid of all wishful thinking and dubious metaphysical speculations, we can hardly doubt that – at a time not too distant – each one of us will simply cease to be. It won’t be like going into darkness forever, for there will be neither darkness, nor time, nor sense of futility, nor anyone to feel anything about it. Try as best you can to imagine this, and keep at it. The universe will, supposedly, be going on as usual, but for each individual it will be as if it had never happened at all; and even that is saying too much, because there won’t be anyone for whom it never happened. Make this prospect as real as possible: the one total certainty. You will be as if you had never existed, which was, however, the way you were before you did exist – and not only you but everything else. Nevertheless, with such an improbable past, here we are. We begin from nothing and end in nothing. You can say that again. Think it over and over, trying to conceive the fact of coming to never having existed. After a while you will begin to feel rather weird, as if this very apparent something that you are is at the same time nothing at all. Indeed, you seem to be rather firmly and certainly grounded in nothingness, much as your sight seems to emerge from that total blankness behind your eyes. The weird feeling goes with the fact that you are being introduced to a new common sense, a new logic, in which you are beginning to realize the identity of ku and shiki, void and form. All of a sudden it will strike you that this nothingness is the most potent, magical, basic, and reliable thing you ever thought of, and that the reason you can’t form the slight idea of it is that it’s yourself. But not the self you thought you were.
Alan W. Watts
Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matter in terms of the metaphysical.When the question is, "Master, what is the fundamental principle of Buddhism?" Then he replies, "There is enough breeze in this fan to keep me cool." That is answering the metaphysical in terms of the everyday, and that is, more or less, the principle zen works on. The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.
Alan W. Watts
A journey of a thousand mile begins with a SMiLE
Bernard Kelvin Clive
I fell in love... she caused a type of smile within me that nothing else can or has.
Steve Maraboli
All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed.
Bryant McGill
Since the human mind is the primary weapon of the human being, it is also therefore the primary and most significant instrument of violence.
Bryant McGill
We are all a part of a culture of violence that dominates every aspect of our lives.
Bryant McGill
We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning.
Bryant McGill
Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.
Bryant McGill
The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of violence and every affair as well as each organized religion and every method of self-help.
Vironika Tugaleva
Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth.
Bryant McGill
The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.
Bryant McGill
Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves.
Bryant McGill
Violence can be a gift. Violence belongs to everyone.
Bryant McGill
Love surrounds, softens and tires violence and force.
Bryant McGill
Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.
Bryant McGill
TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged.
Bryant McGill
Be an active bystander because sooner or later you or someone you love could be a victim too.
Shahla Khan
Not one person on earth is immune to crime and trauma.
Shahla Khan
But many people do not fully realize that there are terrible consequences when people becoming things. Self-image is deeply affected. The self-esteem of girls plummets as they reach adolescence partly because they cannot possibly escape the message that their bodies are objects, and imperfect objects at that. Boys learn that masculinity requires a kind of ruthlessness, even brutality. Violence becomes inevitable.
Jean Kilbourne
You ironically have to have a very strong ego structure to let go of your ego. You need to struggle with the rules more than a bit before you throw them out. You only internalize values by butting up against external values for a while.
Richard Rohr
Our value is mirrored back to us through success only when we share the treasure we already are.
Bryant McGill
Love is the compass which keeps every other value from becoming lost.
Bryant McGill
Living on purpose and serving a higher purpose breathes life into you every day and gives you the desire to reach your goals. You need to live each day congruently by living within your beliefs and values. Unleashing your inspired life starts with living your life’s purpose.
Thomas Narofsky
You will either have value, or be grist for the mill — nothing more.
Bryant McGill
Evolving and bettering yourself is wonderful, but not if the set of standards and values you adopt smothers you into oblivion in the process.
Bryant McGill
Believe it or not, you and your enemies want many of the same things and share values.
Bryant McGill
Be a peacemaker who values peace and takes peace everywhere you go.
Bryant McGill
By mindfully deciding how to act in line with my values instead of mindlessly applying my rules, I was better able to make the decisions that supported my happiness.
Gretchen Rubin
Selfish Apologies Aren’t Apologies at All
Miles Anthony Smith
Show Us, Don’t Tell Us
Miles Anthony Smith
Be a Strong Leader, Even If You Follow a Weak Leader
Miles Anthony Smith
You Either Trust Someone or You Don’t
Miles Anthony Smith
Abdication Isn’t Empowerment
Miles Anthony Smith
Whether it be in the sun, the rain, or the snow,You should always have fun, wherever you go.Think of all the amusing things you can do,To bring much laughter and happiness too.
Susanne Alexander-Heaton
If Everything’s a Rush, Nothing Is
Miles Anthony Smith
Amazingly, if God calls us to do something, He will help us accomplish it. We may doubt or we may simply believe. God chooses us for a particular reason. He is STRETCHING us from the inside out....to reach the lost, to provide hope, to be like Jesus on earth.
Dana Arcuri
Macromanage, Not Micromanage
Miles Anthony Smith
Overoptimism Is More Dangerous Than Overpessimism
Miles Anthony Smith
Don’t Give Someone Responsibility without Requisite Authority
Miles Anthony Smith
Build Icebergs, Not Skyscrapers
Miles Anthony Smith
Adversity Isn’t to Be Avoided
Miles Anthony Smith
Be Chris LeDoux, Not Garth Brooks
Miles Anthony Smith
We all have something to offer, and we must choose to focus on what we do have to offer, not what we don’t. And remember the dirty little secret is that those who are acting like they have it all together really don’t.
Miles Anthony Smith
Being others-focused instead of self-focused changes your worldview. Living in a selfless manner and seeking to help others enriches our very existence on a daily basis. Get your hands dirty once in a while by serving in a capacity that is lower than your position or station in life. This keeps you tethered to the real world and grounded to reality, which should make it harder to be prideful and forget where you came from.
Miles Anthony Smith
If you can’t handle others’ disapproval, then leadership isn’t for you.
Miles Anthony Smith
Life is beautiful...but occasionally it could use a bit of makeup!
Gilda Evans
What could you achieve if you took the energy you spend on things you cannot change and invested it in things you can.
Tina Hallis
Today is a brand new beginning for me!
Joyce Meyer
External beauty is certainly cool to admire, but when worshipped - it eclipses internal shine.
T.F. Hodge