Week 2021-46: Kevin Michel - Collected Quotes

 "Achieve complete clarity as to what you intend to achieve, and develop a real 'knowing' of exactly where you would like to be in your life." (Kevin Michel, "Moving Through Parallel Worlds to Achieve Your Dreams", 2013)

"Every conscious thought you have, every moment you spend on an idea, is a commitment to be stuck with that idea and with aspects of that level of thinking, for the rest of your life. Spending just 10 seconds focusing on a topic that does not serve your interests is to invest your energy along a path that will continue to draw from you and define you." (Kevin Michel, "Moving Through Parallel Worlds to Achieve Your Dreams", 2013)

"Every hour of your life that ticks by, there are numerous points and moments when you can choose to pause - and be aware of your mental and physical state. At any given point, you can freeze the flow that is your life, and be fully conscious for a moment." (Kevin Michel, "Moving Through Parallel Worlds to Achieve Your Dreams", 2013)

"It is well understood in psychology that the subconscious mind has the dominant influence on human decision making, and therefore the pivotal role of the subconscious, for you to achieve success, is inescapable." (Kevin Michel, "Moving Through Parallel Worlds to Achieve Your Dreams", 2013)

"Our consciousness and awareness, which includes our choices as to where we place our focus, alters the paths of our lives, and creates a split in reality, leading to the creation of two or more worlds at any moment in time." (Kevin Michel, "Moving Through Parallel Worlds to Achieve Your Dreams", 2013)

"Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism; we must see the implications of a theory for what they are and not for what we would like them to be." (Kevin Michel, "Moving Through Parallel Worlds to Achieve Your Dreams", 2013)

"Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result." (Kevin Michel, "Moving Through Parallel Worlds to Achieve Your Dreams", 2013)

"The subconscious mind is shielding or showing numerous potential paths, based on what it determines would represent a consistent reality for you." (Kevin Michel, "Moving Through Parallel Worlds to Achieve Your Dreams", 2013)

"To strengthen the connection between your conscious mind and your subconscious mind is to gain access to a map and compass to help you move towards your dream. To gain access to the subconscious mind is to gain the ability to see and create the future, the ability to shift the present, and the ability to alter your own perceptions of the past." (Kevin Michel, "Moving Through Parallel Worlds to Achieve Your Dreams", 2013)

Week 2021-45: Joseph O'Connor - Collected Quotes

 "Any single person's viewpoint will have blind spots caused by their habitual ways of perceiving the world, their perceptual filters [...] How can we shift our perceptions to get outside our own limited world view?" (Joseph O'Connor & John Seymour, "Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People", 1990)

"Emotions make excellent servants, but tyrannical masters." (Joseph O'Connor & John Seymour, "Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People", 1990)

"Free your expectation of the future from the grip of past failure." (Joseph O'Connor & John Seymour, "Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People", 1990)

"If you go through the world looking for excellence, you will find excellence. If you go through the world looking for problems you will find problems." (Joseph O'Connor & John Seymour, "Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People", 1990)

"Once a response becomes a habit, you stop learning. Theoretically, you could act differently, but in practice you do not. Habits are extremely useful, they streamline the parts of our lives we do not want to think about. [...] But there is an art to deciding what parts of your life you want to turn over to habit, and what parts of your life you want to continue to learn from and have choice about. This is a key question of balance." (Joseph O'Connor & John Seymour, "Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People", 1990)

"Questions are also interventions. A good question can take a person's mind in a completely new direction and change his life. For example, ask yourself frequently, 'What is the most useful question to ask now?" (Joseph O'Connor & John Seymour, "Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People", 1990)

"The best way to find out what you are capable of is to pretend you can do it. Act 'as if' you can. What you can't do, you won't. If it really is impossible, don't worry, you'll find that out. (And be sure to set up appropriate safety measures if necessary.) As long as you believe it is impossible, you will actually never find out if it is possible or not." (Joseph O'Connor & John Seymour, "Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People", 1990)

"True learning involves learning other ways of doing what you can do already." (Joseph O'Connor & John Seymour, "Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People", 1990)

"We all have beliefs and expectations from our personal experience; it is impossible to live without them. Since we have to make some assumptions, they might as well be ones that allow us freedom, choice and fun in the world, rather than ones that limit us. You often get what you expect to get." (Joseph O'Connor & John Seymour, "Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People", 1990)

"When we believe something, we act as if it is true." (Joseph O'Connor & John Seymour, "Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People", 1990)

"Words are anchors for sense experience, but the experience is not the reality, and the word is not the experience. Language is thus two removes from reality. To argue about the real meaning of a word is rather like arguing that one menu tastes better than another because you prefer the food that is printed on it. [...] To come to believe that the external world is patterned by the way we talk about it is even worse than eating the menu - it is eating the printing ink on the menu. Words can be combined and manipulated in ways that have nothing to do with sensory experience." (Joseph O'Connor & John Seymour, "Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People", 1990)

Week 2021-44: Jianzhi Sengcan - Collected Quotes

"Do not search for the truth; Only cease to cherish opinions." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"Do not try to drive pain away by pretending it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own accord." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing clings to us and we hold nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's power." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"If you want to realize the truth, don't be for or against. The struggle between good and evil is the primal disease of the mind." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"In the 'Not Two' are no separate things, yet all things are included." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without distinction. To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection. To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"Pursue not the outer entanglements;
Dwell not in the inner void;
Be serene in the oneness of things;
And dualism vanishes by itself." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"Return to the root and you will find the meaning." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"Step aside from all thinking, and there is nowhere you can't go." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"The mind, the Buddha, living creatures - these are not three different things." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"The more you think and talk, the more you lose the Way." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"The two exist because of the One,
But hold not even to this One;
When the one Consciousness -is not disturbed,
The ten thousand things offer no offence." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower they go, and clinging cannot be limited: even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray. Just let things be in their own way and there will be neither coming nor going. Obey the nature of things (your own nature), and you will walk freely and undisturbed." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences... If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. " (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind. The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"The great way is not difficult if you don't cling to good or bad. Just let go of your preferences; and everything will become perfectly clear." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"The one is none other than the All, the All none other than the One." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"There is no need to seek truth, only stop having views." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"To follow the path look to the master follow the master walk with the master see through the master become the master." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"When mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend it ceases to exist in the old way. When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist." (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?" (Jianzhi Sengcan)

"When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity." (Jianzhi Sengcan)