B-Real Quotes
When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict.
When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it’s often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves.
Having kids is not the same as being a parent.
Self-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty.
Somehow I get the idea that being whole is about being perfectly consistent. I'd rather we be perfectly honest.
Moments don’t last forever, but their memories do.
It was my first dead body and I waited for the appropriate feelings. I didn't know what feelings to expect, which was worse than realising that I had none.
Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.
The American Club was for those who preferred to have dinner at six and brunch on a Sunday and avoid the stress of dealing with Greeks and their language.
It was tempting to take refuge in feelings of British superiority, although I disliked myself for it and hoped it didn't show.
We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal.
I'm a seeker who writes about what I find. And maybe, on just the right day, I can help you flatten your learning curve. If I've got anything to say, it's this: you are the authority on you.
When something's fallen apart as many times as usI can't put it back together, it's not the same
For the first few months I went round in a linguistic fog. Often I only realized what someone had said minutes or even days or weeks afterwards.
People say: 'Let the facts speak for themselves'
The gospels, never meant to report, butrather to convince, are in no sense objective and dispassionate biographies. They are glowing accounts meant to persuade people of the writers’ convictions.
That means 19 or 20 of the books of the NT (New Testament) are anonymous. Many are blatantly pseudepigraphic (forgeries, see next section), with famous names applied to artificially promote veracity.
Josephus is the first historian to make note of Jesus having even existed – and that happened six full decades after his death.
Various visionaries through time came to see with some degree of clarity that Oneness, that intrinsic connection between Self and experienced Reality.
You encounter, at its core, a subjective Reality, one based on meaning and value reflective of your own Self, not an objective universe, cold, particle-based and indifferent as science projects.
In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept.
The only difference between holding one god as exclusive or supreme and believing in many gods specialized in function is the number.
It is vital to see not only what Christianity asserts, but where its precepts came from – how they evolved from primitive, superstitious metaphysical claims into “Gospel Truth”.
Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views.
New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth.
If you say I hide things because I'm shy, that can't be right. I've finally realized it's for a different reason-- that I don't want to see the darkness that lies in my heart
When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.
Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff.
We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we’re innately capable of.
Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point.
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
Over the years I've received thousands of e-mails looking for guidance. Some have real problems
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia.
Mistakes don’t make you a failure, but beating yourself up makes you feel like one.
Confidence is the quiet assurance you are enough.
You are real! Everyone has to be different or the world would be really boring. If we all looked the same, then no one could tell us apart. -Janelle
I don't know anyone who remembers meeting their parents when they were a baby so i'm just like everybody else. -Zoey (100% Real)
At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!
The only Christian work is good work well done.
Dialogue can help you find out if you’ve been brainwashed or not.
Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life.
We are hard-wired to engage with those we trust, and this hard-wiring has led to a constant push for greater interaction and connection on the Web.
When we don’t allow setbacks to defeat us, they become opportunities for learning, acceptance, flexibility, and patience.
Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment
Every time we forget to breathe or our minds wander or we’re hijacked by feelings or sensations, we gently bring ourselves back to the breath, again and again.
I can never ‘un-love’ you, Marcus. You are mine, all of you. Your faults are now my own, and all of your secrets are now mine to keep.
Without trust, no company can ever hope for excellence.
Trust is like blood pressure. It’s silent, vital to good health, and if abused, it can be deadly.