Quotes

Richness of mind consists of mental receptivity, not in the accumulation of possessions. -- Carl Jung

The diversity of our opinions does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects. 

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. 

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.
-- René Descartes

The further development of mankind can only be brought about by means of symbols which represent something far in advance of himself, and whose intellectual meanings cannot yet be grasped entirely.  -- Carl Jung

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it — every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.  
-- John D. Rockefeller III

Thought is pure energy. Every thought you have, have ever had, and ever will have is creative. The energy of your thought never dies. Ever. It leaves your being and heads out into the universe, extending forever. A thought is forever. -- Neale Donald Walsch

Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you. -- William James

As heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.    - Mahatma Gandhi

The problem is that the bureaucrats, note takers, literalists, manual readers, TGIF labourers, map followers, and fearful employees are in pain. In pain because they are overlooked, underpaid, laid off, and stressed out.    -- Seth Godin
 

If all your experiences, your various states of consciousness, were weather patterns — clouds, rain, rainbows, tornados, hurricanes, or summer breezes — your consciousness would be the sky in which they take place. -- Marilyn Mandala Schlitz

A self that is only differentiated — not integrated — may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to relect complexity. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

We call “beautiful” whatever corresponds to what we demand of ourselves. Furthermore, such demanding is measured by what we take ourselves to be, what we trust we are capable of, and what we dare as perhaps the extreme challenge, one we may just barely withstand. -- Martin Heidegger

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.    -- Andy Warhol

A teacher who communicates to his students nothing but the syllabus laid down by the authorities, using methods he has learned at the teachers’ training college, can be compared to a dispenser of pills made up according to prescription, who can never be a true physician.
-- Johannes Itten

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned. 
-- Buddha

 

As of yet, almost no one in either the worldwide creativity movement or the worldwide accelerated-learning movement is aware that every technique for solving problems or for evoking creativity, can also serve brilliantly in another capacity. Each such creativity-related method is also a profoundly effective method for improving and accelerating learning, especially learning-with-understanding.    -- Win Wenger

Through second attention, you can perceive yourself as awareness itself, not as one of its products or creations.  -- Deepak Chopra

A wealth of infor­mation creates a poverty of attention. - Herbert Simon

Being busy is a form of laziness — lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. 
- Tymothy Ferris

1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it impor­tant. 
2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.   -- Tymothy Ferris

Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few criti­cally important but uncomfortable actions.   -- Timothy Ferris



People think that they can clear up profound matters if they consider them deeply, but they exercise perverse thoughts and come to no good because they do their reflecting with only self-interest at the center.   -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo (Samurai)

A man under the age of forty does not need to be prudent or sagacious. It is better that he gathers strength. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo

First, the aim of nonviolence is ultimately to bring peace to yourself, to quell your own violence; the enemy outside serves only to mirror the enemy within. Second, your ability to be nonviolent depends on a shift in consciousness. Last, if you are successful in changing yourself, reality will mirror the change back to you.   -- Deepak Chopra

  

Jesus’s doctrine of ‘the last shall be first’ was aimed at revealing a deeper truth, that spirit has been put last in the word and deserves to be first.  -- Deepak Chopra

Everyone has a “risk muscle”. You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don’t, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.  -- Roger von Oech

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.    -- Martin Heidegger

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.   --Martin Heidegger

The level of competition is fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time-and energy-consuming.  -- Timothy Ferriss

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet we learn by making mistakes.     -- Robert Kiyosaki

If you want to be boring, talk about yourself. If you want to be interesting, talk about other people. -- Hugh Macleod

Breaking habits is a bit like breaking your own bones.  --Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

To change personality means to learn new patterns of attention. To look at different things, and to look at them differently.   -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

We spend billions of dollars trying to improve our looks, but we take a fatalistic attitude toward our personal traits. Yet how we look,or how much we weigh,is more difficult to change-it’s more dependent on genetic instructions than are personality traits.   -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Master the most important skill of all, the metaskill that consists in being able to turn any activity into an occasion of flow.     -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The first step toward self-knowledge involves having a clear idea of what you spend your life doing and how you feel while doing it.     --Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Try to surprise at least one person every day.   ---Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Creative individuals delight in the strange and the unknown. And because there is no end to the unknown, their delight is also endless.    -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The bottom line of a well-lived life is the certainty that our existence is linked in a meaningful way with the rest of the universe.    -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The result will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.        -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The real story of creativity is more difficult and strange than many overly optimistic accounts have claimed.   --- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

For better or for worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.
---Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The natural history of the mind is no further advanced today than was natural science in the 13th century.    ---Carl Jung

If feeling does not come to the aid of reason, the latter is usually powerless. ---Carl Jung

The personal life of the poet can’t be held essential to his art — but at most a help or a hindrance to his creative task.      --Carl Jung

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.    --- Carl Jung

Love is metaphysical gravity.   --- Buckminster Fuller

Selfishly exploitable energy fuel strategy will inexorably destroy the atmosphere’s capability of supporting life on planet.   -- Buckminster Fuller,

Humanity is in final exam as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in universe as mind. ---Buckminster Fuller

We have now 150 supreme admirals, all trying to command the same ship. 150 nations act as 150 blood clots in blocking the flow.  --- Buckminster Fuller