thoughts

November 2020

“Have you ever heard of a creature at once present and absent?…

It is I, in the midst of society, while my inner-self has gone far beyond it.”

-K.Sa’di.

December 2020

there is “das ding an sich”

_ a thing as it is _

and

there is “das ding fur uns”

_ a thing as we know it _

-Immanuel Kant.

January 2021

“Re-programming one’s own mind-brain is within the conscious action of self-observing its non-stop activity, and to think upon what it was never thought before.

Re-programming and improving one’s own mind-brain’s non-stop activity is within the conscious effort of making what is difficult, and attempting to what it’s believed as to be almost impossible.”

-Durga Noe Miller.

February 2021

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

-George Bernard Shaw.

March 2021

“Adversity offers an opportunity to be aware of what it isn’t properly working.

To prevail in spite of adversity is within the conscious effort of focusing the attention on overcoming obstacles.”

-Durga Noe Miller.

April 2021

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”

-Japanese Proverb.

May 2021

“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our daily states of awareness.”

-Lao Tzu.

June 2021

“Morals are the set of values that sustain the threading of solidarity in society. Ethics are the individual expression of morality.”

-Durga Noe Miller.

July 2021

“The proliferated dissapearence of social standards for truth, wherein an objective conscious view is less influencial than the subjective interpretations of emotional thinking or beliefs, reflects either a collective unconscious manifestation, or an intentionally deliberated distortion of facts to persuade public opinion.”

-Durga Noe Miller.

August 2021

“The collective unconscious is a stream, a single involuntary flow of social crossover manifestation, which influences us from an unknown perspective.”

-Durga Noe Miller.

September 2021

“The fact is that unconscious archetypal images are so packed with meaning in themselves that we never think of asking what they really do mean…”

-C.G.Jung.

October 2021

“We can deny an impartial view of reality, but, we cannot negate the consequences of having denied it.”

-Durga Noe Miller.

November 2021

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

-Ernest Hemingway.

December 2021

“Remember: upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.”

-Alexander the Great.

January 2022

“Wisdom begins with wonder”

-Socrates.

February 2022

“In the midst of chaos there is also opportunity”

-Sun Tzu.

March 2022

“Courage is taking action upon one’s own fears”

-Durga Noe Miller.

April 2022

“Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield”

-Alfred Lord Tennyson. “Ulysses”.

May 2022

“The gratest Wealth is Health”

-Virgil.

June 2022

“If we do not end war, war will end us”

-H.G.Wells.

July 2022

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plug into it, move with it, and join the dance”

-Alan Watts.

August 2022

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it”

-Marcus Aurelius. Meditations.

September 2022

“Beauty awakens the soul to act”

-Dante Alighieri.

October 2022

“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Nobember 2022

“Vision without action is a daydream”

-Japanese Proverb.

December 2022

“Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world”

-Immanuel Kant.

January 2023

“I think my desire to always get better, to always want more, to always be my top critic, and accepting the good and the bad is a trait that accounts for my succes…”

-Lionel Messi.

February 2023

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals”

-Henry David Thoreau.

March 2023

“Confronting at any given moment one’s inner-Self reality in relation to the external circumstances, is what gives meaning to existence in a fundamental way.”

-Durga Noe Miller.

April 2023

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”

-Walt Whitman.

May 2023

“Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times”

-Chinese Proverb.

June 2023

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value”

-Albert Einstein.

July 2023

“Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits.”

-Laozi.

August 2023

“It always seems impossible until it’s done”

-Nelson Mandela.

September 2023

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best”

-Oscar Wilde.

October 2023

“What is to give light must endure burning”

-Anton Wildgans.

November 2023

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious”

-Albert Einstein.

December 2023

“Reflect on your present blessings, -of which every person has many-, not on your past misfurtunes, -of which all humans have some-”

-Charles Dickens.

January 2024

“Be so busy improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.”

–Unknown.

February 2024

“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things”

-Peter F. Drucker.

March 2024

“To increase your effectiveness, make your emotions subordinate to your commitments”

-Brian Koslow.

April 2024

“A wise person smiles in times of trouble, gathers strength from distress and grows brave by reflection”

-Thomas Paine.

May 2024

“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand”

-Confucius.

June 2024

“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool”

-William Shakespeare.

July 2024

“Experience builds upon action. Conscious experience builds upon attention”

-Durga Noe Miller.

August 2024

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, the unconscious will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

-Carl Jung.

September 2024

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement”

-Helen Keller.

October 2024

“If you want to improve your self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.

-Tim Fargo.

November 2024

“Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.”

-Lao Tzu.

December 2024

“Very little is needed to make a happy life, it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking”

-Marcus Aurelius.

January 2025

“Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life”

-Proverbs 4.23.

February 2025

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving”

-Albert Einstein.

March 2025

“Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

-Mark Twain.

April 2025

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems”

-Rainer Maria Rilke.

May 2025

“Our challenge isn’t to control social media or information, our challenge is to prepare people to become critical thinkers to understand what is going on in the world around us today”

-Pope Leo XIV.

June 2025

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come”

-William Shakespeare.

July 2025

“Only put off untill tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”

-Pablo Picasso.

August 2025

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started”

-Anonymous.

September 2025

“The whole future lies in uncertainty. Live immediately”

-Seneca.

October 2025

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task”

-William James.

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