“Habits are formed so slowly that most of us don’t realize what is happening until the habits are too strongly entrenched to be broken. Seldom can one pattern of behavior be eliminated without replacing it with another. It has been said that nature abhors a vacuum and will always find something to fill a void. The best way to thin out the “weeds,” or faults in your character, is to identify those traits with which you are dissatisfied and replace them with their positive counterparts. If you have a tendency to lose your temper, for example, find a replacement for your anger. Neutralize it with a positive expression or affirmation, such as, “No one can make me angry unless I let them. I will not let anyone else control my emotions.” “
— Napoleon Hill
“As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Be thankful that life is a mystery.There is so much we can never know.Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.There is much that we do not have to know in order to live joyfully.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know)is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.”
— Isaac Asimov
“Mystery creates wonder,and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.”
— Neil Armstrong
“You have the ability, the strength, and the honesty to look clearly and openly. You have nothing to fear. Whatever reveals itself as the truth is your friend. Whatever reveals itself as the illusion, that’s part of clarifying the truth. The truth that releases the illusion is your friend. To know what is true and what is not true is liberation.”
— John Morton
“You are a holistic being with both nondualistic energy and the energy of the physical plane as a part of your being at your disposal.”
— Wayne Dyer
“Give your difference, welcome my difference, unify all difference in the larger whole — such is the law of growth. The unifying of difference is the eternal process of life — the creative synthesis, the highest act of creation.”
— M. P. Follett