September 30
September, Thoughts For…
30. Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein
29. All phenomena of existence have mind as their precursor, mind as their supreme leader, and of mind they are made. Buddha
28. Coming to an understanding of Tao is to realize a wellspring of purity within yourself. When you taste of that purity there is no comparison between the goodness of the spirit and the sins of our addiction. Deng Ming-Dao
27. We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence. Shunryu Suzuki
26. There is, however, a strong empirical reason why we should cultivate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known …
September 10
Are You Overusing Your Psychological Tools?
The Psychology Today post in this link was written a few weeks ago. (It hasn’t been very popular, but analyzing that would be another article…). Although there are some editing changes (as with any Psychology Today post), its message remains in tact. I wanted to provide an example of its application from my personal life.
This post is significant to me because, only a couple of hours after I wrote the article, my girlfriend of nearly two years ended our relationship. (This is actually ironic as well, because the example I used in the Psychology Today post was about a break-up. I …
August 31
August, Thoughts For…
31. Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions. David Borenstein
For more about this, see my article on Psychology Today
30. Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers. Thich Nhat Hanh
29. I have been ruminating about whether I am a nice guy with conditioned defenses that make me seem aggressive, or a nasty person socialized to be nice. Then I realized in truth it doesn’t matter, what matters is how I behave moment to moment. Wm. Berry
28. You may not be …
July 5
Be With Me Or Let Me Be
July 1
July, Thoughts…
31. As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it. The Dalai Lama
30. You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you. Joseph Campbell
29. No man is free who cannot command himself. Pythagoras
28. In Buddhism there is no judgement; just, the world is so constructed that that we bring joy or trouble upon ourselves. David Brazier, Zen Therapy
27. Where …
June 30
June, Thoughts….
30. Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting. Sun Tzu
29. When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed. Chuang Tzu
28. We take refuge in pride because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves. Kakuzo Okakura
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27. Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. Judy Garland
26. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows toward it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. Deng Ming-Dao
25. You can easily judge the character of a …