Thoughts Emerge From Consciousness “Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?” — Sigmund Freud Quick! What are you going to think next? Yes, it was a trick question since you’re unlikely to know what thoughts will emerge in your mind until they do. Yet identifying with thoughts is an unsupportive habit, given they seem …
Consider Opposing Views “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” — Aldous Huxley Perception is a remarkable phenomenon which explains our past conditioning. In keeping with this idea, I invite you to participate in the following thought experiment to test this model. Suppose you are …
Happiness Is A Choice, Not An Unattainable Goal “There is no passion in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela “The givens of life are gifts because they are the ingredients of character, depth and compassion,” writes author David Richo in The Five Things …
What Do You Hope To See? “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” — Leo Tolstoy “I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.” “Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starve till you are forty-five?” “I am. …
Change Is The Principle Of Life “You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever “the old” means for you.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach “In order to be who you are, you must be willing to let go of who you think you are,” asserts Michael Singer in his …
“To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them,” declared William Shakespeare. Helen Keller contracted what is believed to have been meningitis or scarlet fever at the age of 19 months and was …
