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most of us only change when the pain of holding on to what we’re attached to is greater than the fear of the unknown
We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change. —Sheryl Sandberg
Through understanding yourself and how your experience of life is created in the mind, you can find peace.
The only constant in life is change; growth is inevitable. And so no matter who you are, where you’re from, what you have or haven’t done, what you have or don’t have, I know from the depths of my soul that you can find peace, unconditional love, fulfillment, and an abundance of joy in life.
what we hold on to perpetuates our reality what we let go of creates new possibilities
In other words, pain is unavoidable, but how we react to that pain is up to us, and that reaction will dictate whether or not we suffer.
how long are you going to keep holding on to the story you don’t want to keep reliving?
One who looks around him is intelligent; one who looks within him is wise. —Matshona Dhliwayo
“Thought is not reality, yet it is through thought that our realities are created.”
Reality is what is happening right now. It is the objective circumstance that is occurring without any meaning or judgment attached to it. And so what we experience is not reality itself but our perception of reality. Any meaning or thinking we give something is self-created and our choice.
The root cause of our suffering is our own thinking.
Event + Same thinking = Same experience Event + New thinking = New experience
I think and think and think, I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. —Jonathan Safran Foer
Today, the question isn’t whether we will survive but whether we are happy with the time we are alive. Our quality of life is determined by the peace, fulfillment, and joy we feel on a daily basis.
A simple way to recall the distinction between thoughts and thinking is to remember that thought is a noun and isn’t something that we do but something we have.
Thoughts create. Thinking destroys.
The goal is to minimize the time we spend thinking about our thoughts so that eventually, we can get to the point where we spend most of our day not caught up in our thinking and live in a harmonious state more often.
We are only ever one moment away from remembering that we always have in our possession an infinite well of clarity, love, joy, and peace.
I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Most of our destructive habits and behaviors come from the avoidance and suppression of emotions. When we ignore or fight our feelings, we only make our suffering worse.
Anxiety is thought without control. Flow is control without thought. —James Clear
We only hesitate, are reluctant, and have doubts when we begin thinking and overanalyzing.
There are two sources of goals: goals created out of inspiration and goals created out of desperation.
if you want to stay alive nourish your body if you want to feel alive nourish your soul
Instead of looking for right or wrong, good or bad, look for truth without judgment.
We all know the only constant is change, yet we spend most of our energy trying to fight what is natural and inevitable and wonder why we are suffering so much. It is not change that we should fear but staying the same.
It’s not about trying to force things to happen a certain way but about trusting that you will be okay no matter what happens.
Other people may not agree with your decisions, but you are not here to sacrifice your peace for other peoples’ preferences. You are here to learn, grow, and love—and many times, doing what will help you grow the most will make others around you uncomfortable because they are not ready for it.
Don’t let them stop you from doing what makes you feel alive and inspired.
Don’t think. It complicates things. Just feel, and if it feels like home, then follow its path. —R. M. Drake
The practice of non-thinking is about being deeply present and holding a space of non-judgment for everything that is happening in the world around us and within our minds.
to the person who is at peace with the feeling of fear the whole Universe yields
courage is not the absence of fear but the presence of love in the midst of fear
transformation is not a result to be achieved but a byproduct of letting go to be experienced
