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Pleasure and Pain
A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
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Healthy-Mindedness
“Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet”
William James
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I Drink Not..
“I drink not from mere joy in wine, nor to scoff at faith, no, only to forget myself for a moment, that only do I want of intoxication, that alone.”
Omar Khayyam
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Unremarkable Things
“True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.”
Eckhart Tolle
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Emotion
Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.
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Awareness
“Thinking that is not rooted in awareness becomes self-serving and dysfunctional.”
Eckhart Tolle
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Anything
Anything can, accidentally, be the cause of pleasure, pain, or desire
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Spiritual Awakening”
“Spiritual awakening is awakening from the dream of thought”
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Compulsive Thinking – Tolle
Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don’t want to be where you are. Here, Now.
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Courtesy
Courtesy, or deference (Humanitas seu modestia), is the desire of acting in a way that should please men, and refraining from that which should displease them.
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Revenge
Revenge is the desire whereby we are induced, through mutual hatred, to injure one who, with similar feelings, has injured us.
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Individual Things
There is no individual thing in nature, than which there is not another more powerful and strong. Whatsoever thing be given, there is something stronger whereby it can be destroyed.
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Where Pleasure is Derived From
“Pleasure is always derived from something outside of you, whereas joy arises from within”
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Make it a Habit
“Make it a habit to ask yourself: What’s going on inside me at this moment?”
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Thought Alone
“Thought alone, when it is no longer connected with the much vaster realm of consciousness, quickly becomes barren, insane, and destructive.”
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The Vital Step
“The single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to dis-identify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger.”
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Enlightenment
“Enlightenment is a state of wholeness, of being at one and therefore at peace.”
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Thinking
“Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction”
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Your Divine Purpose
“You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are”
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