Quotes

• He who lives with purity considers no the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver

• Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

• I may not be the best, but I'm trying my best.

• Your subconscious mind is 30,000 times more powerful than your conscious mind.

• Fools take a knife and stab people in the back. The wise take a knife, cut the cord, and free themselves from the fools

• Self-awareness is riot self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. "Know thyself" is not a narcissistic pursuit -- Marianne Williamson

• An unhealed person can find offense in pretty much anything someone does. A healed person understands that the actions of others has absolutely nothing to do with them. Each day you get to decide which one you will be.

• You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

• Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

• Do not watch the clock. Do what it does. Keep going.

• When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.

• You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

• The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

• If you think you don't have any power it is because you gave it away.

• Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

• A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value one puts on oneself.

• Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

• The question isn't "who is going to let me"; it's "who is going to stop me".

• Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

• No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

• Times will change for the better when you change.

• Trusting yourself is trusting the infinite energy that created you.

• Don't let the fear of the unknown hold you back. Go beyond it and break free.

• You become what you believe.

• When you minimize everything and everyone you too shall be minimized.

• Your mind is like a garden, protect it from negativity and only sow seeds of positivity.

• Don't judge other's choices when you don't know the reasons and especially when you do know their reason.

• Success is when you can inspire others to grow.

• The only thing worse than being blind is having sight with no vision.

• We are all born ignorant, one must work so very hard to remain stupid.

• Health is the epitome of wealth.

• Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools speak because they have to say something.

• If you're not making someone's life better your time on earth is wasted.

• The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

• If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

• We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

• Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

• We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.

• The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

• A shaman was asked: What is poison? Anything beyond what we need is poison. It can be power, laziness, food, ego, ambition, vanity, fear, anger or whatever.

• In the Divine Consciousness: Be a Learned Ignorant person (humble) instead of Ignorant Learned person (arrogant)

• To Love without knowing how to love wounds the person we Love, to control in the name of love minimizes our love

• Healthy self = heal thy self

• Train tirelessly to defeat the greatest enemy, yourself, and to discover the greatest master, yourself. -- Shi Su Yan 30th generation "Tiger of Shaolin Temple"

• Interesting facts about the subconscious mind

  • It records everything.
  • Always alert and awake.
  • It controls 95% of our lives.
  • It's built on habituation.
  • It speaks to you in dreams.
  • It has no verbal Language.
  • It takes everything Literally.
  • It can do a trillion things at once.
  • It's not Logical; it's the feeling mind.
  • It is one million times powerful than the conscious mind.

• 10 to Zen

  1. Let go of comparing.
  2. Let go of competing.
  3. Let go of judgments.
  4. Let go of anger.
  5. Let go of regrets.
  6. Let go of worrying.
  7. Let go of blame.
  8. Let go of guilt.
  9. Let go of fear.
  10. Have a proper belly laugh at least once a day.

• To Protect My Energy

  1. It is okay to change my mind.
  2. It is okay to cancel a commitment.
  3. It is okay to take a day off.
  4. It is okay to not answer that call.
  5. It is okay to not share myself.
  6. It is okay to do nothing.
  7. It is okay to be alone.
  8. It is okay to sleep in.
  9. It is okay to speak up.
  10. It is okay to move on.
  11. It is okay to change.

Tags: zen, subconscious mind, wisdom, health and wellbeing, life, challenges