Shift Happens Quotes

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so,” wrote Shakespeare. For example:”
― Robert Holden, Shift Happens!: How to Live an Inspired Life...Starting Right Now!

“The fear that something is missing in you is what leads you to search somewhere else for happiness. You overlook what is already here as you chase after there; you miss the sacred now as you ponder your next step; you forget to be grateful for what is as you prey after more. You search, struggle, and strive, but you never arrive because you can’t get past the thought that something is missing.”
― Robert Holden, Shift Happens!: How to Live an Inspired Life...Starting Right Now!

“To live well, it is important to cultivate a happy relationship with your thoughts. The following five ideas are a wonderful recipe for sanity and joy:
1. Your thoughts are not real. Your thinking is not reality; it is an interpretation of reality. No thought has any more authority than what you give it. 2. All thoughts are passing thoughts. Thoughts are transient. They are like leaves in the wind. The only thoughts that stay are the ones you hold on to. 3. You choose your thoughts. No one else does! You can elect to change any thought. You can also choose whether or not to act on any thought. 4. Thoughts have no power. Thoughts are literally electrical mental toys that are powered by you. They have no power of their own. 5. You do not have to take any of your thoughts seriously. The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said, “As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.”
― Robert Holden, Shift Happens!: How to Live an Inspired Life...Starting Right Now!

“All your suffering is rooted in a single superstition which is that you believe you live in a world when in truth the world lives in you.” Imagine for a moment that the world is not a physical place that is separate from you, but rather a projection of your state of mind. If this is so, then your mind really can move mountains. There are three dominant worldviews”
― Robert Holden, Shift Happens!: How to Live an Inspired Life...Starting Right Now!

“There are three dominant worldviews in psychology and philosophy. Each worldview is represented”
― Robert Holden, Shift Happens!: How to Live an Inspired Life...Starting Right Now!