COMPASSION

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life
with reverence in order to give it true value.
— Albert Schweitzer

8/11/2014

Quotes

“Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.” - Buddha (via Deepak Chopra)

“If you don’t like something, change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” - Engelbreit (via ktotheb)

“Paradoxes are only conflicts between reality and your feelings of what reality ought to be.” - Richard Feynman (via Luke Palmer)

“It is not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It is because we dare not venture that they are difficult.” - Seneca

“In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness.” - Pema Chödrön

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what is not being said.” - Peter Drucker

“Speak well of your enemies. After all you made them.” - Unknown

“Your problems are just old habit patterns, asking to be released.” - Karen Bell (KB, ktotheb)

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does tend to rhyme.” - Mark Twain

“All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician and ridiculous to the philosopher.” - Lucretius

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.” - Henry David Thoreau

“What we think, we become.” - Buddha (via Garr Reynolds)

“Complexity grows incrementally. Regaining simplicity requires a revolution.” - Conal Elliott

“How much ‘ego’ do you need? Just enough so that you don’t step in front of a bus.” - Shunryu Suzuki

“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” - Christopher Columbus

“A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.” - Alan Perlis

“So often I hear ‘The Real World’ as a static notion (e.g., ‘but in the Real World …’). I’m for helping the Real World evolve.” - Conal Elliott

“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.” - Charles F. Kettering

“The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.” - John Perry Barlow

“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.” - Thaddeus Golas

“Not choice, but habit rules the unreflecting herd” - William Wordsworth

“Everything you do consciously is preserved for you: everything you do mechanically, since you did not do it, is lost.” - Maurice Nicoll (Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, volume 1, page 95)

“We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.” - Pema Chödrön

“… inherited collective mind-patterns … have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.” - Eckhart Tolle

“They belong to what is as yet a small but fortunately growing minority of spiritual pioneers: people who are reaching a point where they become capable of breaking out of inherited collective mind patterns that have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.” - Eckhart Tolle

“The future is uncertain. But such uncertainty lies at the very heart of human creativity.” - Ilya Prigogine

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” - Abraham Lincoln

“One of my favorite problem solving questions: what if what I’m trying to solve isn’t actually a problem? What if I embraced it?” - Luke Palmer

“We cannot change anything unless we accept it.” - Carl Jung

“Your happiness depends on you alone.” - Aristotl

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