Habits

We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly.
If you think only of yourself, only your own happiness, the result is actually less happiness.
All suffering is caused by ignorance.
You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone.
Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do.
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Go to your Highest Thought about yourself. Imagine the you that you would be if you lived that thought every day. Imagine what you would think, do, and say, and how you would respond to what others do and say.   Do you see any difference between that projection and what you think, do, and say now?  
The soul is very clear that its purpose is evolution...it is not concerned with the achievements of the body or the development of the mind. These are all meaningless to the soul.   The soul is also very clear that there is no great tragedy involved in leaving the body. In many ways the tragedy is being in the body.  
Food does not digest just from the physical process of food breakdown (a process scientific study hasn’t fully pieced together); there are also critical spiritual and metaphysical factors involved in digestion. That’s why enlightened beings on the planet employ eating techniques such as slow and thorough chewing; mindful, present eating; [continue reading...]
We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives overflowing with peace, happiness, and love.
I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. I was instantly energized because I realized that there was a science-based path that would take me from my job as a perennial 'victim' to my new position as 'co-creator' of my destiny
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The mind is the source of all suffering, and it is also the source of all happiness.
The first indication that you are disallowing your physical well-being comes to you in the form of negative emotion.
Make a decision to never allow negative emotion to linger within you
Laws change, habits dissolve, new forms and functions emerge whenever an individual or a society learns a new behavior. This is because we are all connected through what Sheldrake calls “morphogenetic fields” — organizing templates that weave through time and space and hold the patterns for all structures, but which can be altered according to our changing thoughts and actions.  
The laws of nature are not absolutes; rather, they are accumulations of habits. The law of gravity, for example, is a pretty well-fixed habit, probably owing to the trillions of beings throughout the universe who give it general assent. Yet yogis, swamis, and more than a few Catholic saints report that, in deep meditation or spiritual rapture, [continue reading...]