Personal Revolutions Quotes

“Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“Having problems doesn't make you noble or virtuous, it makes you human. Nobility and virtue comes from the way that you handle your problems and either learn to move past them or live with them if out of your control.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time and
place.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“This world is your world but that doesn't mean you can always stop it from burning.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“The first step to empathy and compassion is realising the similarities between yourself and those that are suffering; the first step to forgiveness is realising that we're all human and we all share the same capacity for fallibility and foible; the first step to growth is to recognise the value of things that are outside your current mental frameworks so that you can grow into them.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“Idealism + Inaction = Depression”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“There are two types of 'busy': 1)
Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so is
through action.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“If humans created it then it is the product of a choice that somebody made. And if it was chosen it can be changed.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“The human condition is essentially the conflict between the human need for control and a universe that provides little if any of it. Once we accept this and get into the flow of life, we are free and, paradoxically, able to get better results.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“If we go in to each situation that life throws at us with an attitude that we can
learn from it then we will never be truly defeated.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“Refuse to waste time trying to convince yourself that you don't have time, when you could be using that time to actually 'do' it.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“Whenever we find ourselves stuck, whenever we find ourselves lost or confused by the chaos of the world, we can be sure that the only way to free ourselves is to take action of some kind. Action is the only thing that ever changes anything and in a world that ever changes, it is the best way to keep ourselves in the flow of the world unfolding.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“One of the most human things that you can do is reach out for the stars knowing that you might not ever touch them; we are all perfectly imperfect, but to live knowing so is to be a fulfilled human being.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“The final lesson is that 'reality' is always the way to go and that acceptance is the only way to get there.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“It is essential to our health and happiness that we dedicate ourselves to some kind of mission or purpose that transcends the mundane hustle and bustle of daily living.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“Don't cling to your self-concept purely because your will demands it. Demand that your environment aligns as much as possible and change what you must about yourself when the outer world can’t be changed. Mental health is about mental fluidity, mental illness stems in rigidity.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“In this world, love is not always enough.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“God' is whatever is the next obvious step towards wholeness in yourself and your life; 'Ego' is whatever within you stops you taking it.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“Remember: knowing originates on the inside, knowledge on the outside. Certain facts and concepts may change, come into being, disappear, or be replaced, but what it is to be a human being will never really be all that different. Every person to ever live, now and the whole of history, has had a rich and elaborate world of inner experience, but it has mainly been flesh upon the same skeleton. We are all
born, come to terms with the world, and then come to terms with coming to terms with the world, as we go through the stages of puberty, old age, death and
making sense of it all in between. We all live the same process in different ways. Some live it longer than others and some cover more ground. But that's it.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“Our modern day, hyper-rat-race culture often leads us to mistakenly confuse
'busy' for 'success'. The truth of the matter is that if you're constantly having to tell people how busy you are and how overwhelmed with work or stressed you are, what you're really telling them is that you can't cope with what's on your plate. You're ‘failing’.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“Dig, then dig a little deeper; refusing to stop until things become real.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“Life is fragile and love is precious, but our world is built around the idea that life is forever and love is expendable.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“To open your heart you sometimes have to break it.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“If philosophy gets you lost in the labyrinth of symbols that distance us from reality, then it is part of the problem; if it motivates positive action that can create a better world, philosophy is usually a gift.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness