“A free mind is a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing. Most people spend much of their time looking for reasons to be offended. An open mind is never offended because it is free of any attachments.
It is never the self that is offended but always the illusion that the self has of itself that is affected by insult! If you can really understand this, deeply grasp it’s truth, live it each day, then pain will be no more.
Next time you ‘feel’ offended look closely within yourself at yourself and ask yourself what was offended? If you remain aware you will see that it was only an image of yourself which you had become attached to, and that image did not resonate with the image contained in the insult. If you weren’t attached, if you didn’t identify with the wrong image of yourself then there would be no offence taken. You would then remain free and therefore happy.“
-— Unknown
“Everything we do is practice for something greater than where we currently are. Practice only makes for improvement.”
—- Les Brown
“Practice relaxation. When you’re relaxed, your mind and body work at their highest capacity, and your heart more easily opens to all around you.”
— William DeFoore
“We tend to see things not as they are but as we are. Becoming quiet and simple inside is the first step towards seeing things truly.”
-— Unknown
“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”
-— Malcolm Gladwell
“Practice the ‘I love…’ form of journaling. Just start each sentence with ‘I love…’ and then fill in the blank with as many things, situations, people and places as you can think of. This can be a wonderful part of your mental, emotional and spiritual fitness program.”
— William DeFoore
“Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.”
— Virginia Satir
“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversation with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”
— Thomas Moore
“You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight to our hearts.”
— Cochise
“Life is Fragile. We don’t know what tomorrow will bring. Make the most of today. Love life. Love people. Serve others. Care more.”
— Jon Gordon
“It is easy to create new things, change places or do something different. To keep that sense of newness that creates enthusiasm is more difficult.
The secret of newness in life is not to do new things constantly, but to see everything you do with new eyes, new insights and a new perspective.“
-— Unknown
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
-— Aristotle
“In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche