I Was Learning Quotes
Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).
Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.
The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.
The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.
Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.
It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.
Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.
We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.
No practice exists in isolation.
Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.
Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that.
As a human being, I know of no greater example of success than someone who is self-sustaining through using his passion in the service of others.
Health, wealth, reputation, and status are all mere ingredients of happiness. The key to true well-being is being able to manage them capably.
The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing.
It was my letting go that gave me a better hold.
A man has only so much life, and must diversify his efforts according to his values.
A life of joy awaits the man who sits alone quietly in a room and determines what he himself believes rather than simply adopting the values of another.
Our social contract is becoming an exchange of free thought for mindless stimuli.
If something’s existence is contingent upon the existence of another entity, can we truthfully call them separate beings?
Fear is contagious. Fortunately, so is courage. Learning to become fearless will touch everyone around you, and best of all, you'll find it's a gift that keeps on giving.
...story is a powerful stimulant with tremendous influence over how we think and act. Like meth, only safer.
When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong usefulness in any communicative context.
The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves.
The most obvious, most absurdly recognizable phenomena in day-to-day life often become the hardest to remain consciously aware of.
Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought.
You have become more and therefore expect more, but never become too purpose-driven to step back and realize just how far you have progressed.
People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.
Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.
If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.
The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'.
You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.
Constantly re-evaluating your purpose is the best way to ensure that you are pursuing the goals of who you are and not who you used to be.
The very fact that you can observe this thinking mind is proof that you are not this thinking mind.
Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is.
...new life starts in the dark. Whether it is a seed in the ground, a baby in the womb, or Jesus in the tomb, it starts in the dark.
Moving on is not about forgetting the past
The inner encounters I have with animals—and will be teaching you to have— are exchanges of meaning.
Let's live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows.
Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.
When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.