B-Real Quotes
Integration arises from intimacy with our emotions and our bodies, as well as with our thoughts.
Honesty requires that we communicate our thoughts and feelings, not our conclusions.
Someone who thinks of possessing a fountain made of a winged baby with water shooting out of its mouth must not have too many troubles.
Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life.
Dialogue can help you find out if you’ve been brainwashed or not.
The only Christian work is good work well done.
At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!
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)
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
Confidence is the quiet assurance you are enough.
Mistakes don’t make you a failure, but beating yourself up makes you feel like one.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia.
Over the years I've received thousands of e-mails looking for guidance. Some have real problems
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point.
We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we’re innately capable of.
Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff.
When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.
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
New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth.
Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views.
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”.
The only difference between holding one god as exclusive or supreme and believing in many gods specialized in function is the number.
In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept.
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.
Various visionaries through time came to see with some degree of clarity that Oneness, that intrinsic connection between Self and experienced Reality.
Josephus is the first historian to make note of Jesus having even existed – and that happened six full decades after his death.
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.
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.
People say: 'Let the facts speak for themselves'
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.
When something's fallen apart as many times as usI can't put it back together, it's not the same
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.
We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal.
It was tempting to take refuge in feelings of British superiority, although I disliked myself for it and hoped it didn't show.
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.
Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.
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.
Moments don’t last forever, but their memories do.
Somehow I get the idea that being whole is about being perfectly consistent. I'd rather we be perfectly honest.
Self-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty.
Having kids is not the same as being a parent.
When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict.
Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair.
I am a negative person by nature, and I typically shy away from anything that requires me to be having visible fun.
It is easy to climb the ladder of success if one is working on issues and aeas which are not frequented by the masses, provided one is ready to face challenges.