Category: Sayings and Quotes

“I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad. The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had”

Roland Orzabal

This is actually a line from a song called “Mad World” which I heard on the radio the other day and felt summed up a contradiction some might feel but doesn’t really exist.

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“The world can no longer control you because it’s fear that really runs you”– David R Hawkins

There is a lot to unpack in this one sentence  but I often feel once you truly understand it you are firmly on the road to enlightenment.

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“Perhaps I should spend my time trying to help those less fortunate than me in this lifetime and hopefully be pleasantly surprised when I leave” – Amazon Review

I saw this in an Amazon Review for one of those books about enlightenment and I thought it was a great philosophy because it covers two areas.

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“To see imperfection is a projection” – David R Hawkins

Projections are amazing things to watch out for. It can be, for example, where you want to do something and you justify it by saying someone else wants to do it.

You are projecting your wants onto the other person.

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“Perhaps you are waiting to hear my laments  about ‘how much one suffers’ living with a man like Diego. But I do not believe the bank of the river suffer by letting it run …” – Frida Kahlo

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“Think of my life like this:

Is it possible that all the horrors I’ve experienced have been staged for me, that I may become a playwright and depict all states of the soul and all situations. I was a playwright at age twenty. But has my life passed peacefully and tranquilly, I would have had nothing to portray” – Anon

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“I have been years seeking the ideal place and I have come to the conclusion that the only way to find it is to be it.” – Alan Watts

So many of us go through life thinking things would be better if we were somewhere else – perhaps geographically, perhaps in terms of a job or relationship.

The truth is if we ever get to that place we may be content for a while but soon enough we’ll begin to wonder if there is somewhere even better and unhappiness seeps in as we continue to search.

Accepting the present can release us from that. It doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t work to change it, that we should be lethargic, just we should avoid thinking change solve everything.

This is a book available on Amazon but it boils down to these:

1. The Practice of Living Consciously – remaining focused on what you are doing and want to achieve rather than getting distracted
2. The Practice of Self Acceptance – you are who you are
3. The Practice of Self Responsibility – stop waiting around for others to sort your life out
4. The Practice of Self Assertiveness – don’t be afraid to say what you think
5. The Practice of Living Purposefully – look to do something more than Sleep – Work – Eat
6. The Practice of Personal Integrity – if you say you are going to do something, do it.

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“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don’t know” – Source: Donald Rumsfeld

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“Its a bit like when you go into the army, the first thing we want is to take over your body so symbolically we’re going to shave off all your hair. As long as you give in on this we’ve got you. We’ve got your body.

In one sense sometimes … some churches … do the same. We’re going to tell you something unbelievable that you’ve got to believe. If you believe it then you believe that they alone control heaven, without them you cannot get into heaven and then they’ve got you. You’ve left your brains in the parking lot” – Source: John Dominic Crossan

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