Collected Wisdom

Substantial preference on the part of young children for savanna over all other biomes.

Prospect refers to having a grand view, an overview, as it were of the landscape. Refuge refers to having a safe place to hide, a place from which one can see without being seen.

Dominance is signaled in day-to-day life through a variety of nonverbal gesture recognizable cross culturally.

Low dominants smile more often, less likely to infringe on another’s personal space, and more likely to look away from the gaze of others, eyes downcast.

Submissive tend to exhibit a drawn in, slouching posture, dominants tend to have an upright bearing, shoulders straight and head through back, and to move with a general ease and freedom of body movements.

Traditional societies look to their healers for authority, or charisma, attention to their symptoms and personal history, knowledge of their condition, and the power to provide restoration to health.

Women are sexually attracted to men who displace traits that are reliably correlated with Social dominance. Size and physiognomy, social traits such as kinship relationships and political alliances, individual behavioral traits, such as self-confidence, body language, and aggressiveness.

High dominance Personality

Bright, initiating, self-assured, decisive, muscular, assertive, persuasive, and ambitious.

Psychotherapy is so ancient that it has a prior claim to be designated as the oldest profession. It is a form of social grooming which probably arose out of the care-givining/care-receiveing aspects of the parent-child bond.

Love should not blind truth.

We read our own meaning into the fates of others.

The generous are often ill-treated.

He who tries to please everybody pleases nobody.

The insatiable are the procurers of their own untimely ends

Schemes of ambition, without proper talent, always end in disgrace

A two-faced man makes no friends

In death, the rich and the poor meet together

The deceitful reveal their true motives in the illogic of their schemes

Evil tendencies are shown in early life.

The mentality of the apes in 1925 which was first ignored and then disparaged, but that now stands as a classic in evolutionary cognition.

Anyone who intends to conduct experiments on animal cognition should first spend a couple thousand hours observing the spontaneous behavior of the species in question.

Biologically Prepared Learning: each organism is driven to learn those things it needs to know in order to survive.

There is a great survival value in communication about things that are absent or events that have happened or are about to happen. You can let others know that there is a lion over the hill, or that your neighbors have picked up weapons.

Wild orangutans communicate future travel routes. Orangutans are such loners that their encounters in the canopy have been described as ships passing in the night.

Consciousness arises in the number and complexity of neural connections.

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

When the motives of artist are profound, when they are at their work as a result of deep consideration, when they believe in the important of what they are doing, their work creates a stir in the world. It may be that it will rouse two kinds of men to bitter antagonism, and the artist may be more showered with abuse than praise, just as Darwin was in the start, because he introduced a new idea into the world.

I believe the great artists of the future will use fewer word, copy fewer things, essays will be shorter in words and longer in meaning. There will be a battle against obscurity. Effort will be made to put everything plain, out in the open.

We must paint only what is important to us, must not respond to outside demands. They do not know what they want, or what we have to give

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. If your attitude is negligent, if you are not awake to the possibilities you will not see them. Nature does not reveal herself to the negligent.

Energy, vitality and unity are the essential things about man. The strength of a wild horse lies in its unity.

The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.

It beats all the things that wealth can give and everything else in the world to say the things one believes, to put them into form, to pass them on to anyone who may care to take them up.

Everywhere freedom must be the sign of reason. We are living in a strange civilization. Our minds and souls are so overlaid with fear, with artificiality, that often we do not even recognize beauty.

How little opportunity we give any people for casting off fear, for living simply and naturally. When they do, first of all we fear them, then we condemn them. It is only if they are great enough to outlive our condemnation that we accept them.

Humans have a strong aversion to killing at close range. The most resistance is against hand-to-hand combat with a knife or bayonet.

The deepest trauma is not the fear of being killed. It’s doing the close-up, individuated killing.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Testosterone makes people overconfident and overly optimistic, with bad consequences. Testosterone made subjects more likely to think their opinion was correct and to ignore input from their partner. Testosterone makes people cocky, egocentric, and narcissistic.

Testosterone boosts impulsivity and risk taking, making people do the easier thing when it’s the dumb ass thing to do.

Fearless, overconfident, and delusionally optimistic sure feels good. No surprise, then, that testosterone can be pleasurable.

Testosterone makes us more willing to do what it takes to attain and maintain status.

2/3rds of everyday conversation is gossip. Gossip is a weapon of the weak against the powerful.

It’s all about social memory, emotional perspective taking, impulse control, empathy, ability to work with others, self-regulation.

Once high status achieved, maintaining it is all about social smarts—knowing with coalitions to form, how to intimate a rival, having sufficient impulse control to ignore most provocations and to keep displacement aggression to a reasonable level.

One who is engaged in my pure devotional service. free from the contaminations of previous activities and from mental speculation, who is friendly to every living entity, certainly comes to me

There are three gates leading to this hell - lust, anger, and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul

One who is not envious but who is a kind friend to all living entities, who does not think himself a proprietor, who is free from false ego and equal both in happiness and distress, who is always satisfied and engaged in devotional service with determination and whose mind and intelligence are in agreement with me - he is very dear to me

Foods in the mode of goodness increase duration of life, purify one’s existence and give strength, health, happiness and satisfaction. Such nourishing foods are sweet, juicy, fattening, and palatable

One who is beyond duality and doubt, whose mind is engaged within, who is always busy working for the welfare of all sentient beings, and who is free from all sins, achieves liberation in the Supreme

The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well

A person is said to be still further advanced when he regards all the honest well-wisher, friends, and enemies, the envious, the pious, the sinner and those who are indifferent and impartial with an equal mind

He should live alone in a secluded place and should always carefully control his mind. He should be free from desires and feelings of possessiveness

Humility, pridelessness, nonviolence, tolerance, simplicity, approaching a bonafide spiritual master, cleanliness, steadiness and self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification, absence of false ego, the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; non attachment to children, wife, home and the rest, and even mindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events; constant and unalloyed devotion to me, resorting to solitary places, detachment from the general mass of people; accepting the importance of self-realization and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth - all these I thus declare to be knowledge, and what is contrary to these is ignorance

Every endeavor is covered by some sort of fault, just as fire is covered by smoke. Therefore one should not give up the work which is born of his nature, O son of Kunti, men of such work is full of fault

There are neural networks that are shaped by your interactions with your environment. Because of neuroplasticity, we have the opportunity to reshape our brains throughout our lifetimes by changing the input and the environment we choose.

If positive experiences are intense enough, novel enough, occur often enough, and if we direct our focus attention to them long enough, they will strengthen the brain’s “happiness” neural pathways and therefore make it easier for us to feel positive emotions

Too much negative stimulation produces excess amounts of the stress hormone cortisol, which causes the amygdala to become overly sensitive to negative. Consciously focusing on positive experiences and putting your full, sustained attention on them, dopamine release to the amygdala can be postponed, which will increase your sensitivity to the happiness that comes your way.

Overstressed, overstimulated, urbanized mind can find greater relief in the more subtle perceptions of a park, a forest, a beach, or a riverbank than it can from almost any human-produced environment.

People distracted by incoming email and phone calls saw a Ten-point reduction in their IQ

Sea of over-stimulation that exhausts physically, mentally, and emotionally. Human brain copes with clutter by going into overdrive.

Physical clutter distracts the brain, creates greater stress, overloads the senses, and makes it more difficult to process information.

Intensity and the novelty of an experience increases the formation of new synapses in the hippocampus and the creation of new neural structures.

Hard and rough leads to psychological inflexibility and a decline in creativity. Straight and firm diminishes creativity and intellectual performance.

The list of intellectual and artistic breakthroughs sparked by a wander or a swim is long indeed.

It’s easier to be happy when you’re surrounded by happy people. How you spend your time and who to avoid: Are you outgoing? Are you a good listener? Are you upbeat and supportive? Are you willing to engage in meaningful conversations? Do you engage in gossip or do you stand up for your friends when they’re not there?

Try to set up your life so you’ll spend more time with people you enjoy — those people who make you healthier and happier and less time with people who spread negativity.

A few active relationships with good friends can have a bigger impact on your health and happiness than a lot of casual acquaintances. It’s important that you surround yourself with the right kinds of friends, though, their thoughts and behaviors can be contagious.

Smiling trusting, and giving others your time have been shown by research to create happiness.

Know your purpose

Get out of your comfort zone

Lots of research has shown that the happier people have good relationships.

The human species has changed its electromagnetic background more than any other aspects of the environment. The density of radio waves around us is now 100 Million or 200 Million times the natural level reaching us from the sun.

Electro pollution can trigger profound and dangerous changes, even if we don't know exactly how and when.

People living near overhead high-voltage lines seemed more prone to depression than others. Magnetic fields averaged 22 percent higher at suicide addresses than at the controls, and areas with the strongest field contained 40 percent more fatal locations than randomly selected houses.

Electromagnetic fields vibrating at about 30 to 100z interfere with the cues that keep our biological cycles properly timed; chronic stress and impaired diseased resistance result.

Regulation of cellular growth processes is impaired by electro-pollution, increasing cancer rates and producing serious reproductive problems.

Cancer is hardly a novel illness, but its prevalence is new. In the mid-1960’s roughly a quarter of the U.S. population could expect to develop it. By the mid-1970’s, that figure had risen to one third, and it's now even higher.

The childhood death rate from leukemia, lymph node cancer, and nervous system tumors in the high-current homes was more than double the rate in low-current homes.

The first step toward averting disaster, we must halt the introduction of new sources of electromagnetic energy while we investigate the biohazards of those we already have with completeness and honesty.

Clear evidence that an electric field only slightly stronger than earth’s background stimulated growth of all bacteria and increased their resistance to antibiotics.

Relaxed attention to any mildly involving stimulus, such as a movie or TV program, produces a hypoid state, in which the mind becomes especially receptive to suggestion.

The only real adventure remaining for each individual is the exploration of his own unconscious. The ultimate goal of such a search is the forming of a harmonious balanced relationship with the self.

Everything remains the same if you give it a new name.

The animal does not rebel against its own kind. Consider animals: how just they are, how well-behaved, how they keep to the time honored, how loyal they are to the land that bears them, how they hold to their accustomed routes, how they care for their young, how they go together to pasture, and how they draw one another to the spring. There is not one that conceals its overabundance and lets its brother starve as a result. There is not one that tries to enforce its will on those of its own kind. Not one mistakenly imagines that it is an elephant when it is a mosquito. The animal lives fittingly and true to the life of its species, neither exceeding nor falling short of it.

The most masculine man needs women, and he is consequently their slave. Become a woman yourself, and you will be saved from slavery to woman.

Through becoming a woman you attain freedom from their tyranny. The acceptance of felinity leads to completion.

Go to the meetings of scholars and you will see them, these lamentable old men with their great merits and their starved souls famished for recognition and their thirst which can never be slaked. The soul demands your folly, not your wisdom.

Humankind is masculine and feminine, not just man or woman. You can hardly say of your soul what sex it is.

The most masculine man has a feminine soul, and the most feminine woman has a masculine soul.

Only he who does not comprehend the darkness fears the night.

Through comprehending the dark, the nocturnal, the abyssal in you, you become utterly simple.

In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we cretics must face is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risk something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends.

Animators have been trained to be observant—they know that viewers subconsciously register even the most subtle motions and that those, in turn, trigger recognition.

It’s extremely difficult to create something out of nothing.

What is the nature of honesty? I everyone agrees about its importance, why do we find it hard to be frank?

Mistakes are a part of creativity. We would strive to face them without defensiveness and with a willingness to change.

Mistakes are the inevitable consequence of doing something new. And, as such, should be seen as valuable, without them, we’d have no originality. Embracing failure is an important part of learning.

Failure is an opportunity for growth.

Left to their own devices, most people don’t want to fail. Fail early and fail fast.

Failure is like learning how to ride a bike. You are not able to do it without making mistakes.

Self-interest guides opposition to change, but lack of self-awareness fuels it even more.

In the struggle for survival the fittest win out of the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

The important thing is to keep calm, I can only afford success. Don't hurry. Make it right…Patience is going to be the secret, and strength

You must either cultivate your own ruling faculty, or external things; you must either exercise your skill on internal things or on external things; that is, you must either maintain the position of a philosopher or that of a common person. The condition and characteristic of a philosopher is this: he expects all advantage and all harm from himself.

The physical and psychological factors rapidly erode each other, which is why it is so important to pace yourself, rest frequently, and stay hydrated.

One of the most basic human needs, beginning at birth, is to be gazed upon by another.

Standard fire order: stay alert, keep calm, think clearly, act decisively.

Leadership, order, routine

The creative arts are among both the most intellectually advanced and most ephermal of human endeavors. “The arts are true to the way we are and were”.

The most successful member of a stable society has a strong sense of empathy. It can see what others see, feel what they feel, and gauge its response with precision—when to advance and when to retire, whom to groom and whom to avoid, whom to challenge and whom to placate.

A clear definition of human nature is the key to understanding the human condition as a whole.

Morality, conformity, religious fervor, and fighting ability combined with imagination and memory to produce the winner.

A group with members who could read intentions and cooperate among themselves while predicting the action of competing groups, would have an enormous advantage over others less gifted.

Innovation of style and metaphor, by its aesthetic surprise, by the lasting pleasure it gives.

Serious art, holds and distracts you long enough to lead your mind away through the remainder of its content—perhaps to understand the whole intended meaning. The overall feel of creative work may come at the beginning or at the end.

Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. It pays to be socially smart.

People must have a tribe. It gives them a name in addition to their own and social meaning in a chaotic world. It makes the environment less disorienting and dangerous.

The ideal vantage point is on a rise looking down, a vista of parkland comprising grassland sprinkled with treats and copses, and proximity to a body of water, whether stream, pond, lake, or ocean.

Both emotions and stimuli evoke the same energy. Emotions can now be equated with measurable energy

It is clear that memories and emotions are a most important factor in the human organism. They can have a considerable influence on emotional and physical health

They do not seem to affect well balanced people

It should be emphasized that the electrodynamic field is a united organism and the abnormalities in one area affect the field as a whole. We can see; therefore how fear - real or imaginary and whether consciously held or not can have deleterious effects on the whole organism

Most subtle electric and elastic spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies by the force and action of which spirit all sensation is excited and the members of animal bodies move namely by the vibrations of the spirit

He can now begin to appreciate for the first time that, far from being alone, he is in the company of every living thing: each affecting the other, each showing its own individuated response to the general pattern laid down by the universal law

The electric force, short for electromagnetic force, is the only force we will need to talk of. Along with gravity, it is the only force we normally experience. The forces between atoms are electrical. When we touch someone, the pressure of our touch is an electric force. We see, hear, smell, taste, and touch with electric forces. The neurological processes in our brains are electrochemical, and therefore ultimately electrical.

All animals have to protect themselves from dangerous situations in order to survive: withdrawl, immobility, defensive aggression, freezing and submission.

Fear conditioning. A sound comes on followed by a brief mild shock. Every time the subject hears the sound, the subject goes into fear paralysis

Freezing is a built-in response that can be activated by natural or learned triggers.

Fear conditioning is quick, it is also very long lasting.

Anxiety is usually distinguished from fear by the lack of an external stimulus.

Anxiety has also been described as unresolved fear.

Fear and anxiety are normal reactions to dangers(real or imagined) and are not themselves pathological conditions. When fear and anxiety are more recurrent and persistent than what is reasonable under the circumstances, and when they impede normal life, then a fear/anxiety disorder exists.

Phobias are fears of specific stimuli or situations that in excess of the actual threat posed.

Obsessive compulsive disorder involves intrusive, repetitive, and persistent thoughts and/or repetitive behaviors that are performed in a very precise way in response to obsessive thoughts.

The infant learns to be afraid of the snakes by seeing its mother acting afraid.

A weak ego does not gain substantial strength from being persistently bolstered. A strong ego, secured in its identity by a strong society, does not need and in fact is immune to any deliberate attempt at artificial inflation. Its tendency is toward the testing of what feels real, the mastery of that which works, the understanding of that which proves necessary, the enjoyment of the vital, and the overcoming of the morbid.

Marie Jahoda’s definition of healthy personality: actively masters his environment, shows a certain unity of personality, and is able to perceive the world and himself correctly.

The counterpart of intimacy is distention: the readiness to repudiate, to isolate, and if necessary, to destroy those forces and people whose essence seems dangerous to one’s own.

Most of our tensions and frustration stem from compulsive needs to act the role of someone we are not.

Simple and straightforward ratings of feelings of being loved are significantly related to health status.

A less drastic obstacle to experiencing flow is excessive self-consciousness. A person who is consistently worried about how others will perceive her, who is afraid of creating the wrong impression, or of doing something inappropriate, is also condemned to permanent expulsion from enjoyment. So are people who are excessively self-centered. A self-centered individual is usually not self-conscious, but instead evaluates every bit of information only in terms of how it relates to her desires.

To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances.

Malcolm X, who in his early life followed the behavioral script for young men in the slum, fighting and dealing drugs, discovered in jail, through reading and reflection, a different set of goals through which to achieve dignity and self-respect. He invented an entirely new identity.

Animals suffer just as we do when their biologically programmed goals are frustrated.

The person whose attention is immersed in the environment becomes part of it — she participates in the system by linking herself to it through psychic energy. This, in turn, makes it possible for her to understand the properties of the system, so that she can find a better way to adapt to a problematic situation

Great music, architecture, art, poetry, drama, dance, philosophy, and religion are there for anyone to see as examples of how harmony can be imposed on chaos. Yet so many people ignore them. Expecting to create meaning in their lives by their own devices. To do so is like trying to build up material culture from scratch in each generation.

To arrive at this level of self-assurance one must trust oneself, one’s environment, and one’s place in it.

Activity and reflection should ideally complement and support each other. Before investing great amounts of energy in a goal, it pays to raise the fundamental questions: is this something I really want to do? Is it something I enjoy doing? Am I likely to enjoy it in the foreseeable future? Is the price that I and others will have to pay worth it? Will I be able to love with myself if I accomplish it?

We are biologically programmed to find other human beings the most important objects in the world. Because they can make life either very interesting and fulfilling or utterly miserable, how we manage relationships with them makes an enormous difference to our happiness.

In that sense one would call them self-assured, yet at the same time, their egos seem curiously absent: they are not self-centered; their energy is typically not bent on dominating their environment as much as on finding a way to function within it harmoniously. This attitude occurs when a person no longer sees himself in opposition to the environment.

Chickens that lose a fight and descend in the pecking order withdraw from social engagement and act submissive, thereby reducing further attacks by chickens higher in the hierarchy.

The alpha male, who gets essentially all the matings, has bright blue testicles. Until, that is, he loses a fight with another male. Then he huddles into a ball, rocks, withdraws, and acts depressed as his testicles turn a dusky gray. Price interprets these changes s signals of “involuntary yielding”. John Price

Depressive episodes are precipitated by failure to a accept a loss in a status competition. They view low mood as a normal response to losing a competition and depression as a the result of continuing useless status striving—“failure to yield”.

They interpret diverse stressful life events as a loss of status, and they observe that many patients recover when they give up an unwindable status competition.

Mood depends on surroundings.

Modern man is estranged from being, from his own being, from the being of other creatures in the world, from transcendent being. He has lost something—what, he does not know; he only knows that he is sick unto death with the loss of it”. The mysterious, absent element is a deep and abiding immersion in communal ties. In all of its varied and protean forms, love is the tether binding our whirling lives.

When one accepts the solitariness of his journey there is no companions possible and he is in that existential world where things simply “are”. In this realm there is no happiness or unhappiness in the usual sense but only that state of being that is correctly called Ecstasy.

Creativity in a man is directly linked with his inner feminine capacity for growth and creation. Genius in a man is his interior feminine capacity to give birth; it is his masculinity which gives him capacity putting that creativity into form and structure in the outer world.

A man creates out of his restlessness; a woman creates by knowing what always was

One form of seduction is to wring pleasure from an experience in advance. The origin of the word is instructive: happiness stems from the root verb to happen, which implies that our happiness is what happens. Simple people in less complicated parts of the world function in this manner and exhibit happiness and tranquility that is a puzzle to us. How can a peasant in India with so little be happy about be so happy? These people know the art of happiness, contentment with what is.

To feel is the sublime art of having a value structure and a sense of meaning—where one belongs, were one’s allegiance is, where one’s roots are. To mood is to be in the grips of the feminine part of our nature, to be overwhelmed by an irrational element that plays havoc with a man’s outer life. The feminine side of a man is to connect him within the depths of his inner being and to make a bridge to his deepest self.

Please be good to your own hermit quality or the born hermit in your circle of friends.

The meaning is very clear; it is the meaning of all religious practice. The individual, through prolonged psychological disciplines, gives up completely all attachment to his personal limitations, idiosyncrasies, hopes and fears, no longer resists the self-annihilation that is prerequisite to rebirth in the realization of truth, and so becomes ripe, at last, for the great atonement.

His personal ambitions being totally dissolved, he no longer tries to live but willingly relaxes to whatever may come to pass in him; he becomes, that is to say, an anonymity. The Law lives in him with his unreserved consent.

Many are the figures, particularly in the soil and mythological contexts of the orient, who represent his ultimate state of anonymous presence.

Sometimes a fool, sometimes a sage, sometimes possessed of regal splendor; sometimes wandering, sometimes as motionless as a python, sometimes wearing a benignant expression; sometimes honored, sometimes insulted, sometimes unknown—thus lives the man of realization, ever happy with supreme bliss. Jus as an actor is always a man, whether he puts on the costume of his role or lays it aside, so is the perfect knower of the Imperishable always the Imperishable, and nothing else. - Shankaracharya

Or do ye think that ye shall enter the garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed away before you?

The gods only laugh when men pray to them for wealth. - Japanese proverb

All things are in process, rising and returning. Plants come to blossom, but only to return to the root. Returning to the root is like seeking tranquility. Seeking tranquility is like moving toward destiny. To move toward destiny is like eternity. To know eternity is enlightenment, and not to recognize eternity brings disorder and evil.

Belief is critical to a person’s health. As she points out, virtually everyone who has had contact with the medical world knows at least one story of a patient who was sent home to die, but because they “believed” otherwise, they astounded their doctors by completely recovering.

Their bodies responded not to reality, but to what they were imagining as reality. The group spent 75% visualizing and 25% training, they saw the greatest improvement in performance.

When we stop seeing illness as something operate and instead view it as part of a larger whole, as a milieu of behavior, diet, sleep, exercise patterns, and various other relationships with the world at large, we often get better.

In nine double-blind placebo studies comparing placebos to aspirin, placebos proved to be 54% as effective as the actual analgesic. In six double-blind studies placebos were found to be 56% as effective as morphine in relieving pain.

Another factor is the attitude the doctor conveys when he prescribes the placebo

Drugs such as alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine are also detrimental to the brilliant, healthy colors of the aura and create “etheric mucus”. Potent drugs such as chemotherapy clog the entire field. A person’s psychological condition is also reflected in their energy field.

Certain talents and abilities seems to be related to the presence of specific frequencies in a person’s energy field. She has found that when the main focus of a person’s consciousness is on the material world, the frequencies of their energy field tend to be in the lower energy rate.

People who have frequencies above 900 are what Hunt calls mystical personalities. Whereas psychics and trance mediums are often just conduits of information, mystics possess the wisdom to know what to do with the information. They are aware of the the cosmic interrelatedness of all things and are in touch with every level of human experience. they are anchored in ordinary reality, but often have both psychic and trance abilities. Mystical traditions have often referred to highly spiritual individuals possessing a “higher vibration” than normal people.

The body is a kind of microcosm, a universe unto itself reflecting all of the different factors that a person is dealing with and trying to integrate

Never, never get angry at your body or your internal organs. Only send them positive messages.

The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas.

You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction

Getting lots of ideas from lots of different sources creates the best of all innovation worlds.

They simply recombined the ideas they had collected in new ways.

The person holds deep expertise in one knowledge area but actively acquires knowledges broadly across different knowledge areas. Importing an idea from another field into his area of deep expertise. Exporting an idea from his area of deep expertise to one of the broad fields he is exploring where he as shallow knowledge.

Force new associations

ASK QUESTIONS — What if and challenge the status quo.

Who what when where and how.

Are you willing to look stupid.

You reveal the answers by finding the right question.

The investor cannot enter the arena of the stock market with any real hope of success unless he is armed with mental weapons that distinguish him in kind from the trading public.

One possible weapon is indifference to market fluctuations. He must be relatively immune to optimism and pessimism and impervious to business or stock-market forecasts. In a word, he must by psychologically prepared to be a true investor and not a speculator masquerading as an investor. If he can meet this test, he will be a member not of the public at large but of specialized and self-disciplined group.

If the investor is bargain-minded he might as well be on the lookout continuously for individual bargains, instead of seeking to operate in leading stocks.

Their most familiar argument is that a stock should be bought because it has advanced and should be sold because it has declined. If true investment has one fundamental principle, it is likely to be the opposite of that one.

By pricing we mean the endeavor to buy stocks when they are quoted below their fair value and to sell them when they rise above such value.

There is a great advantage for the young capitalist to begin his financial education and experience early.

The activities characteristic of the enterprising investor may be classified under four heads:

The aggressive investor should obtain the best available estimates of what a number of stocks are worth, apart from their market price.

Frequently we find a discrepancy between price and value which arises from the public’s failure to realize the true situation of a company—this in turn being due to some complicated aspects of accounting or corporate relationships.

The largest theoretical gains in the stock market are to be made not out fo the continuously prosperous companies but out those which experience wide visited—by buying their stocks at their depths and selling them at their heights.

You write a script twice. The first time you pour out all your passion, anger, energy, and frustration. Then you go back and write it with your head.

The climax is the point at which the protagonist and the antagonist slug it out.

There is a problem, the protagonists go on a journey, they find the solution, they return, and the problem is solved.

Good storytelling never gives you four, it gives you two plus two…don’t give the audience the answer; give the audience the pics and compel them to conclude the answer. Audiences have unconscious desire to work for their entertainment . They are rewarded with a. Sense of thrill and delight when they find the answers themselves.

A viewer loves being immerse din a new, confusing and possibly dangerous world that he will never see. He likes not knowing every bit of vernacular or idiom. He likes being trusted to acquire information on his terms, to make connections, to take the journey with only his intelligence to guide him. Most smart people cannot watch most TV, because it has generally been a condescending medium, explaining everything immediately, offering no ambiguities, and using dialogue the simplifies and mitigates against the idiosyncratic ways in which people in different world actually communicate.

When two opposites are juxtaposed correctly, an explosion occurs, and story comes alive.

KULESHOV EFFECT: if an audience is presented with disparate images it will assemble them into a meaningful order. It’s a truth on which all film grammar is based.

Two opposites are placed side by side; art is rendered form juxtaposition. That interpretation is art.

The test of first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Post midpoint the protagonist has to learn how to integrate the now dominant new self with toehold one. It’s not enough for them to assume an entirely new personality—they have to learn how to merge the good from the new tithe good from the old. Then as the journey nears its end, the two sides are brought into balance.

Similar but different. Consistent but unique.

Things that catch on, then wether in music, fashion, or any other domain, often hit this goldilocks range(middle porridge), similar enough to what is already out there to evoke the warm glow of familiarity, but novel enough to seem new and not just derivative of what came before.

Similarity shapes popularity because it makes novel things feel familiar.

High-impact scientific research is grounded in proper work with a sprinkling of unusual combinations of prior ideas.

The right blend of familiarity and novelty also drives what becomes popular.

Classical music is more likely to be popular if the transitions between notes are somewhat similar to classical music in general, but different enough from music composed at that time.

A great deal of research has shown that people are more likely to associate with similar others.

Moderately similar things blend the old and the nee. The novel and the familiar. But they also satisfy our need to be optimally distinct.

Humans strive for validation.

We want to be a part of something. Being similar to, or doing the same thing as, others gives us confidence we are doing something right.

The true agenda of the old is the agenda of the left. More fairness and less profit; more restoration and less development; community care, not more prescriptions, restoration of nature, not more harvesting form it, less wrangling over medicare and more genuine nursing; more public transportation, fewer private enclaves, more friendliness with people rather than user-friendly electronics, and peace not guns.

Evil basically consists in arrogant, selfish narcissism, or supreme willfulness.

Supreme willfulness was known to the Greeks as hubris, overweening pride.

All absurd behavior has its roots in early childhood.

Hitler actually succeeded in transferring the trauma of his family life onto the entire German nation.

The whole course of world history could have been altered by early therapeutic intervention in that obscure Austrian household.

Keep to the limits of the world, staying alive proudly is ambition enough.

The concept of investing for a lifetime and focusing largely on asset allocation and diversification has gotten lost in the noise of short-term, even daily and sometimes minute-by-minute movements of the volatile stock market. I can only restate my warning that “the stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing.

Long-term value, not short-term price, rules the world, simply reinforcing the classic Graham principle about the voting machine and the weighing machine.

Consider a 50/50 stock bond balance, and then raise the stock allocation if:

You have years remaining to accumulate wealth.

The amount of capital you have at stake is modest.

You have little need for current income.

You have the courage to ride out booms and busts with reasonable equanimity.

As you age, lower your stock allocation accordingly.

The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one great thing. The fox—artful, sly, and astute—represents the financial institution with investment professionals who know many things about complex markets and sophisticated strategies. The hedgehog—whose sharp spines give it almost impregnable armor when it curls into a ball—is the financial institution that knows only one great thing: longe-term investment success is based on simplicity.

The wily foxes of the financial world justify their existence by propagating the notion that an investor can survive only with the benefit of their artful knowledge and professional expertise. Their assistance, alas, does not come cheap. The costs it entails tend to consume any value that even the most cunning of foxes can add. Result: the annual returns earned for investors by financial intermediaries such as actively managed mutual funds have averaged less than 80 percent of the stock market’s annual return— a huge loss when compounded over decades.

The possession of knowledge, unless accompanies by a manifestation and expression in Action, is like the hoarding of precious metals - a vain and foolish thing. Knowledge, like wealth, is intended for use. the Law of use is universal, and he who violates it suffers by reason of his conflict with natural forces

The masters, knowing the rules of the game, rise above the plane of material life, and placing themselves in touch with the higher powers of their nature, dominate their own moods, characters, qualities, and polarity, as well as the environment surrounding them and thus become movers in the game, instead of pawns.

The masses of people are carried along, obedient to their environment; the wills and desires of others stronger than themselves; the effects of inherited tendencies; the suggestions of those about them; and other outward causes; which tend to move them about on the chess board of life like mere pawns. By rising above these influencing causes, the advanced Hermetists seek a higher plane of mental action, and by dominating their moods, emotions, impulses, and feelings, they create for themselves new characters, qualities, and powers.

Universes are created; reach their extreme low point of materiality; and then being their upward swing. Suns spring into being, and then their height of power being reached, the process of retrocession begins, and after aeons they become dead masses of matter, awaiting another impulse which starts again their inner energies into activity and a new solar life cycle is begun. And thus it is with all the things of shape and form; they swing from action to reaction; from birth to death; from activity to inactivity- and then back again. Thus it is with all living things; they are born, grow, and die- and then are reborn. So it is with all great movements, philosophies, creeds, fashions, governments, nations, and all else - birth, growth, maturity, decadence, death, and new birth. The swing of the pendulum is ever in evidence.

There is no such thing as absolute rest, or cessation from movement, and all movement partakes of Rhythm

Every thought, emotion or mental state has its corresponding rate and mode of vibration.

Under, and back of, the universe of time, space, and change, is ever to be found the substantial reality, the fundamental truth

Substance means: that which underlies all outward manifestations; the essence

He sees all things evolving from other things, and resolving into other things, a constant action and reaction, inflow and outflow; building up and tearing down; creation and destruction; birth, growth, and death. Nothing endures but change.

Gender is in everything; everything has its masculine and feminine principles; gender manifests on all planes

All humans are engaged simultaneously in two tasks: They seek to know more about the world, and they wish to protect themselves form the world. Especially from information that might prove upsetting.

To be open to information about the disbelief system, is to have an open mind.

If you are chronically insecure or anxious or frightened, you cling desperately to your belief system, and you are too busy defending yourself against real or imagined threats to take in information about the disbelief system.

A nation believing the only way to secure peace and dignity is through armed strength, may embark on a huge armaments program. The program arouses the fears of neighboring nations, so that too increase their armaments to match those of the first nation,.

When scientist work with a minimum of interference from financial or political influences—when, that is, they are free to pool their knowledge with their co-workers all over the world and to check the accuracy of one another’s maps by observations independently made and freely exchanged, without regard to whether their hypotheses fit preconceived expectations—they make rapid progress.

-Aimless playfulness for its own sake, like that of a happy child

-The ability to become so deeply absorbed in an activity that you lose track of time, external events, and all your worries, often whirling, humming, or talking to yourself absentmindedly A child’s innocent curiosity An observant, nonjudgmental style

-Willingness to look foolish, make mistakes, and laugh at yourself Open-minded acceptance of criticism of yourself

-An active imagination, daydreams, mental play, and conversations with yourself

Part of the mind’s effect on health is direct and conscious. The extent to which we love ourselves determines whether we eat right, get enough sleep, smoke, wear seat belts, exercise, and so on. Each of these choices is a statement of how much we care about living. These decisions control about 90% of the factors that determine our state of health.

The abujmarhia tribe of central India enjoy a pollution-free environment, a wholesome natural diet, abundantly loving sexual relationships beginning primarily in early adolescence, relaxed but occasionally strenuous work in the fields by day, dancing and storytelling in the evening, and plenty of rest. Cancer is absolutely unknown among them.

Cancer risk incurred by the personality type for whom life’s meaning comes entirely from people or things outside the self. Cancer is a symbol, as most illness is, of something going wrong in the patients life, a warning to him to take another road.

I was a flower child, in love with the world, and my parents said, “grow up”, so I grew up and got cancer. Loving doesn't mean one hasn't grown up. Being childlike is not childish.

He was a saint why him? The truth is that compulsively proper and generous people predominate among cancer patients because they put the needs of others ahead of their own. Conditional givers. They are giving only in order to receive love. If their giving is not rewarded, they are more vulnerable to illness than ever.

Do you love yourself enough to take care of your body and mind? The answer is contained in your lifestyle. Do you eat moderately? Are there plenty of fresh fruits and vegetable in your diet? Do you avoid most processed, additive-laden food? Do you smoke? Do you eat a good breakfast and get adequate rest? Do you exercise? Are you self-motivated? Most centenarians have been self-employed for much of their lives. Do you seek activities that give you joy and satisfaction?

There is something deeper that differentiates him, something that exhibits his character and makes him visible from a long way off. This guy has the confidence of royalty—the way he holds his head, his casual swagger: he is made of kingly stuff. And it is clear that the others acknowledge his royal rank as his position is reinforced every time he struts up to the watering hole to drink.

This is the paradox of power structures: they bind people together.

Oxytocin shields pair-bonds from equal adventures with outsiders.

When married men are given oxytocin in a nasal spray, they feel uncomfortable around attractive women and prefer to keep their distance

Predators exude a cool self-confidence whereas prey animals know fifty shades of fear. They live in terror, and they startle at every unexpected movement, sound, or smell.

Large income disparities tear the social fabric apart by reducing mutual trust, stirring up social tensions, and creating anxieties that compromise the immune system of both the rich and poor.

Humans seek to level the playing field and if efforts to achieve this are blocked for too long ,we may bring in the guillotine

People in a wealthy nation do not feel any better than those in a poor one. It is not wealth per se that enhances well-being but relative wealth. Feelings of happiness depend on how our income stacks up against that of others.

Being an orphan seriously hurts an individuals ability to empathize.

The truth as it set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may know bliss, be it only a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features of the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him. The loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities.

Being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.

The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all

Everyone has his own specific vocations or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment, which demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

Mental health is based on a certain degree of tension between what one has already achieved and what one still out to accomplish, our that gap between. What one is and what one should become. What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.

It is well know that an enforced community life, in which attention is paid to everything one does at all times, may result in a na irresistible urge to get a way, at least for a short while.

Honesty

An angry temperament was studied as a function of those who tend to yell at bad drivers. Those who just let it go tend to be more than two times happier and wealthier compared to those who don’t.

Worrying too much ranked number one worst habit

Both alpha and beta brain waves have beneficial effects.

Those who read seven or more books per year are more than 122% more likely to be millionaires

Those who seek solitude are up to 92.3% more likely to have an advanced college degree.

The lack of an advanced education ranked as the all time top regret.

Those with a master’s degree are about 144% more likely to be saving 10% of their money as opposed to being in debt and those with a doctorate degree are 319% more likely.

People without a college degree are more likely to earn less than $50,000.

The #1 Me goal was to get closer to God.

Certain environmental factors can regulate the process to dramatically affect the rate at which new neurons are produced. For example, physical activity, environmental enrichment, and learning tasks enhance the proliferation of neural stem cells and, in some cases, promote the survival of newborn neurons, whereas stress, certain types of inflammation, and sensory deprivation have the opposite effect.

Just as weightlifter leads to an enlargement of muscle tissue, so too can mental training expand corresponding parts of the brain.

Researchers suspect that their increasing us of satellite navigation devices Ould lead to a gradual deterioration of the hippocampus.

Intensive training alters the brain in such a way that it begins to execute the appropriate functions more efficiently.

Since all pleasurable activities enhance dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens, they, too, can become addictive, and there is now evidence that activities such as gambling, sex, and shopping can lead to similar brain changes, causing people to perform them compulsively.

Your brain is, to a large extent, unique, custom-built from the life experiences you have had since being in your mother’s womb, to meet the demands you place on it today.

Nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:10

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. Ephesians 5:11

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on things of the flesh, but those who live according to the spirit set their minds on the things of the spirit. Romans 8:5

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals” 1 Corinthians 15:33

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 1 Peter 2:11

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

But test everything; hold fast what is good. Thessalonians 5:21

And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your father in heaven may forgive your sins Mark 11:25

Get rid of all bitterness, rage, and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in christ God forgave you. Ephesians 4:31

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness. Galatians 5:22

The top five regrets of the dying

I wish that I’d let myself be happier

I wish I’d stayed in touch with my friends

I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings

I wish I hadn't worked so hard

The most common: I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me

Mastery is a pursuit that keeps giving, because it’s a path that never ends. Jigoro Kono, the founder of judo. According to legend, as kano approached death, he called his students around him and asked to be buried in his white belt.

No one succeeds alone and no one fails alone. Pay attention to the people around you. Seek out those who will support your goals, and show the door to anyone who won’t. The wrong people in your environment can most certainly dissuade, deter, and distract you from the productivity course you've set out on. The individuals in your life will influence you and impact you, probably more than you give them credit for.

Multitasking leads to mistakes, poor choices, and stress. Workers who use computers during the day change windows or check email or other programs nearly 37 times an hour. Being in a distractible setting sets us up to be more distractible. Multitasking slows us down and makes us slower witted.

Why would we ever tolerate multitasking when we’re doing our most important work? Just because our day job doesn’t involve bypass surgery shouldn't make focus any less critical to our success or the success of others. Your work deserves no less respect.

Originality is what everybody wants, but there’s a sweet spot. If it’s not original enough, it’s boring or trite. If its too original, it may be hard for the audience to understand. The goal is to push the envelope, not to tear the envelope

The most important thing you can do, is do a lot of work. Do a huge volume of work.

The personality trait most associated with an interest in the arts is called openness, the tendency to seek out novelty and variety in intellectual, aesthetic, and emotional pursuits

False negatives are common in the entertainment industry. Studio executives passed on hits ranging from Star Wars to E.T. Pulp Fiction. In publishing, managers rejected the Chronicles of Narnia, the diary of Anne Frank, Gone with the Wind, Lord of the Flies, and Harry Potter. The Xbox was almost buried at Microsoft, the laser printer was nearly canceled at Xerox for being expensive and impractical. The author of the initial report on the Seinfeld pilot felt it was on the border between “weak” and “moderate”.

As we gain knowledge about a domain, we become prisoners of our prototypes. Test audiences are no better than managers at predicting the success of new ideas: focus groups are effectively set up to make the same mistakes as managers. The truth is most pilots don't test well. Audiences don't have enough experience: they simply haven’t seen a lot of the novel ideas that landed on the cutting-room floor. There is one group of forecasters that does come close to attaining mastery: fellow creators evaluating one another’s ideas. When artists addressed one another’s performances, they were about twice as accurate as managers and test audiences in predicting how often the videos would be shared. Compared to creators, managers and test audiences were 56 precent and 55 percent more prone to major false negatives.

On average, the combined forecasts of all 120 circus managers were no better than a typical single creator’s predictions. Instead of attempting to assess our own originality, we ought to turn more often to our colleagues. We are drawn to peer evaluations because they provide the most reliable judgments.

Shapers are independent thinkers: curious, non-conforming, and rebellious

Nobel Prize winners were dramatically more likely to be involved in the arts than less accomplished scientists

It is when people have moderate expertise in a particular domain that they're the most open to radically creative ideas

Highly creative adults move to new cities much more frequently than their peers in childhood, which gave them exposure to different cultures and values, and encouraged flexibility and adaptability

Primates find great comfort in each other’s company. Getting along with others is a critical skill because survival chances outside the group—where there are predators and hostile neighbors—are dismal. Primates who find themselves alone meet a quick death. This explains why they spend an extraordinary amount of time—up to 10 percent of the day—servicing social ties by grooming others.

Field studies have shown that female monkeys with the best social connections have the most surviving offspring.

Rhesus monkeys normally punish anyone who vioaltes the rules of their strict society but Azalea was able to get away with the gravest blunders, such as threatening the alpha male due to her “down syndrome”

Looking without looking, and understanding without speaking. Postures and body mimicry—the ancient animal language of connection

A charging gorilla male is prepared to die for his family

A male gorilla is a born protector.

The mighty silverback was the most sensitive and comforting, directly responding to signs of distress.

Win over friend without being too submissive, because without some level of assertiveness, one will end up at the bottom of the pecking order or worse. Success will require that, the person neither be a bully nor a doormat.

There’s a great need for us to stay young at heart. Homo Ludens: the playful ape. We play games until we die, we dance and sing, and we add to our knowledge by reading nonfiction or taking senior university classes.

If monkeys hate unfair treatment, why shouldn’t wee?

Mammals, including us, become friendly, playful, curious, and creative when they feel safe, satisfied, and connected. You can still be strong and determined, asserting yourself, pursuing your goals with enthusiasm, standing up to injustice, living with passion, making love, creating art, cheering on your children, and howling happily at the moon on a good night with friends.

When the subjects responses to a stimulating, plant-filled, homey setting and a grim, institutional one were contrasted, the only reaction they all shared was a decline in vigorous activity and increased feelings of fatigue in the austere environment.

A good or bad environment promotes good or bad memories, which inspire a good or bad mood, which inclines us toward good or bad behavior. We needn’t even be consciously aware of a pleasant or unpleasant environmental stimulus for it to shape our states. On some level, states and places are internal and external versions of each other.

Getting over a habit, whether it’s a lost love or a drug, requires environmental reconditioning

You can't recover if you sit around in your old haunts. To condition yourself to health, you have to break past associations and respond to the positive stimuli of new things and places, which will generate even more good stuff.

The city simply provides too much stimulation of almost every kind, bombarding us so relentlessly that in self-protection, we tune out and turn off.

Eskimo men lost 30% of their muscle strength, because of modern labor-saving devices. You have to be careful what you invent, because it also invents you.

Human beings resonate with one another in the dimension of spirit, analogous to the way a vibrating turning fork induces another one near it to vibrate at the same rate. Whatever the mechanism, there is no question that the people you choose to associate with can raise or lower your spirits, make you happy or sad, calm or anxious, comfortable or uncomfortable.

People whose lives are broken up into lots of short segments and appointments have higher rates of suicide and heart disease because they're overloaded with contacts. We can't even learn from our experiences unless we have refractory periods to digest them in. In general, the best approach is to try to live your life at any given moment as if you were part of a group of twelve.

Overall, participants int the salary group showed many of the characteristics of the market: they were more selfish and self-reliant; they wanted to spend more time alone; they were more likely to select tasks that required individual input rather than teamwork; and when they were deciding where they wanted to sit, they chose seats farther away from whoever hey were told to work with. Indeed, just thinking about money makes us behave as most economists believe we behave - and less like the social animals we are in our daily lives

And yet, for all this electronic chatter and focus in print, we find ourselves again and again in the same predicament as my students — failing over and over to reach our long-term goals. Why? because without pre-commitments, we keep on falling for temptation

Only 27 out of 1,097 put money into Bell’s open violin case and only 7 stopped to listen for more than a minute.

Across many domains of life, expectations play a huge role in the way we end up experiencing things. As it turns out, positive expectations allow us to enjoy things more and improve our perception of the world around us.

If we’re going to try to understand human behavior and use this knowledge to design the world around us, including institutions such as taxes, education systems, and financial markets, we need to use additional tools and other disciplines, including psychology, sociology, and philosophy. Rational economics is useful, but it offers just one type of input into our understanding of human behavior, and relying on it alone is unlikely to help us maximize our long term welfare.

Great managers are not philosophers, entertainers, or doers. They are engineers. They see their organizations as machines and work assiduously to maintain and improve them.

Like great musicians, all great managers have both creativity and technical skills.

When you catch someone violating your rules and controls, make sure that everybody sees the consequences.

Know what your people are like and what makes them tick, because your people are your most important resource.

A higher percentage of the population than you might imagine will cheat if given the opportunity.

Most people call something bad if it is bad for them or bad for those they empathize with, ignoring the greater good.

Nature optimized for the whole, not for the individual.

Typically, people’s conflicting beliefs or conflicting interests make them unable to see things through another’s eyes.

To be good, something must operate consistently with the laws of reality and contribute to the evolution of the whole; that is what is most rewarded.

You reach a point in all relationships when you must decide whether you are meant for each other— that’s common in private life and in any organization that holds very high standards.

His entire spiritual education had come from within and was induced by fasting and vigil. In all matters of emergency or great decision the Indian sought solitude. He went alone to some high place, built a small campfire, planted about him a circle of prayer plumes, smoked a ceremonial pipe, and waited through the long hours of the night for the “voices.

Understanding is the unifying source and misunderstanding is the dividing force. Each human being advances the universal destiny to the degree that he overcomes within himself the impulses to divide and separate

Religion is the spiritual part of learning, philosophy the mental part, and the sciences, including the arts and crafts, the physical part.

Purity of life, kindliness of manner, peace, and brotherhood

Permanent progress results form education, and not from legislation

Progress of society always demands that the human being as a person be in advance of the institutions which he creates.

Religion, science, and philosophy are the three parts of essential learning. A government based upon one or even two of these parts must ultimately degenerate into a tyranny, either of men or opinion.

Thomas Paine did more to win the independence of the colonies with his pen than George Washington accomplishes with his sword.

The creative person, in the inspirational phase of the creative furor, loses his past and his future and lives only in the moment. He is all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter in hand. This ability to become “lost in the present” seems to be a sine qua non for creativeness of any kind. But also certain prerequisites of creativeness - in whatever realm - somehow have something to do with this ability to become timeless, selfless, outside of space, of society, of history. It has begun to appear strongly that this phenomenon is diluted, more secular, more frequent version of the mystical experience.

Maslow realizes that the creative attitude and the ability to have peak experiences depends upon being free of other people; free, especially, from neurotic involvement, from ‘historical hangovers from childhood’, but also free of obligations, duties, fears, and hopes.

We become much more free of other people, which in turn means that we become much more ourselves, our Real Selves, our authentic selves, our real identity.

The earth assumes a smiling countenance; and, although this may be no more than a projection of the inner bliss of the subject, there is a sense in which feeling that all is right with the world may actually promote a better adjustment to it. All the world loves a lover, and lover loves all the world. Being in love is a state of mind closer to ecstasy than it is orgasm.

Creatures who are more or less perfectly adjusted to the environment could be called ‘happy’.

Creativity usually consists of forming new links between formerly disparate entities, the union between opposites decreed by Jung. This linking process is obvious in scientific creativity, in which a new hypothesis reconciles or supersedes ideas which we previously thought to be incompatible.

Combining opposites can also be demonstrates in the visual arts and in music. Our delight is related to the skill with which the composer creates a new unity out of themes which at first appeared quite separate.

The creative process continues throughout life. No creator is ever satisfied with what he has done. New problems constantly occur which compel him to seek new solutions.

At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that I and you are one and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.

Jung and Freud almost abandoned interest in psychotherapy in favor of ideas and theories about human nature.

For man the most important stressors are emotional, especially those causing distress.

In chickens, overcrowding definitely dimities egg production.

Overcrowding leads to increase important of social rank within the community.

It is not to see something first, but to establish solid connections between the previously known and the hitherto unknown that constitutes the essence of scientific discovery.

The basic premise is that, like other social animals, human physiologic homeostasis and ultimate health statue are influenced not only by the physical environment but also by the social environment.

From such a biopsychosocial perspective, individual biology, psychological functioning and interpersonal and social relationship work together, each influencing the other.

Adaptiveness is the capacity to respond to external stressors without rigidity, with flexibility and creativity, without excessive anxiety and without being overwhelmed by emotion.

The words that were presented more frequently were rated much more favorably than the words that had been shown only once or twice.

Easily pronounced words evoke a favorable attitude. Companies with pronounceable names do better than others for the first week after the stock is issued.

Cognitive ease is associated with good feelings.

When uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.

To survive in a frequently dangerous world, an organism should react cautiously to a novel stimulus, with withdrawal and fear. Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

The link between positive emotion and cognitive ease in system 1 has a long evolutionary history.

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.

Caring about someone deeply is exhausting. Somewhere between 10 and 15 people is when we begin to overload.

Most of human evolution took place before the advent of agriculture when men lived in small groups, on a face-to-face basis. As a result human biology has evolved as an adaptive mechanism to conditions that have largely ceased to exist. Man evolved to feel strongly about few people, short distances, and relatively brief intervals of time; and these re still the dimension of life that are important to him.

The Law of the Few says that Connectors, Mavens, and Salesman are responsible for starting word-of-mouth epidemics.

Translators take ideas and information from highly specialized world and translate them into a language the rest of us can understand.

Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement.

If you look at any species of primate, the larger the neocortex is, the larger the average size of the groups they live with.

We are mistaken if we think we must hold on to something in the external world to succeed in life.

Only being true to oneself, as cinderella is, succeeds in the end.

For one’s inner security and feeling of self-worth, no externals compensate for not having basic trust in infancy. We can gain basic trust through changes in the inner structure of the mind and personality, never through things that look good.

One must leave home to find one’s kingdom; that it cannot be gained immediately; that risks must be taken, trials submitted to; that it cannot be done all by oneself, but that one needs helpers; and that to secure their aid, one must meet some of their demands

The difficulties one encounters on life’s voyage: coming into sexual maturity, gaining independence and self realization. Dangers must be overcome, ordeals endured, decisions made; but the story tells that if one reminds true to oneself and one’s values, then, despite how desperate things may look for a while, there will be a happy ending.

There is no greater threat in life than that we will be deserted, left all alone. Psychoanalysis has named this—man’s greatest fear, separation anxiety, and the younger we are, the more excruciating is our anxiety when we feel deserted.

Naive as it may seem. The prince and princess getting married and inserting the kingdom, ruling it in peace and happiness, symbolized to the child the highest possible form of existence because this is al he desires for himself: to run his kingdom—his own life—successfully, peacefully, and to be happily united with the most desirable partner who will never leave him.

Every child at some time wishes he were a prince or princess—and at times, in his unconscious , the child believes he is one, only temporarily degraded by circumstances.

One succeeds in gaining independence only by working through one’s inner conflicts, which children usually try to project onto their parents.

One gains selfhood through learning to understand and master the inner as well as the outer world.

Pare down to the essence, but don’t remove the poetry. Keep things clean and unencumbered, but don’t sterilize. Emotionally warm, never cold.

Sober, modest, heartfelt intelligence

Intimate —small and compact, quiet, and inward-oriented. Get close, touch, relate.

Wabi-sabi state of mind is often communicated through poetry, because poetry lends itself to emotional expression and strong, reverberating images that seem “larger” than the small verbal frame that holds them.

Unpretentious. Understated and unassuming, yet not without presence nor quiet authority.

It is best if the creator is of no distinction, invisible, or anonymous.

Social currency-laden, triggered, emotional, public, practically valuable, but don’t forget to hide your message inside.

High concept pitches are Hollywood’s version of core proverbs. They tap the power of analogy.

Story works by posing questions and opening situation

A person’s knowledge of details is often a good proxy for her expertise.

What’s what emotion does for an idea—it makes people care.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories

Get me some poets as managers. Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world turns. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, our our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow’s new business leaders.

Childhood inspires moral clarity because it allows us to think back to a time before morality became complicated. As we mature, our moral decisions acquire the baggage of compromise and conflicting principles.

The right hemisphere operates in a simultaneous, contextual, and symphonic manner

Self-made millionaires are four times more likely to be dyslexic. Dyslexic struggle with L-Directed Thinking and the linear, sequential, alphabetic reasoning at its core. They are intuitive and excel at problem-solving, seeing the big picture, and simplifying.

Artistry, empathy, taking the long view, pursuing the transcendent — will increasingly determine who soars and who stumbles.

Candles are a 2.4 billion a year business — for reasons that stretch beyond the logical need for luminosity to a prosperous country’s more inchoate desire for beauty and transcendence.

It’s more right brain…I see us being in the art business. Art, entertainment, and mobile sculpture, which, coincidentally, also happens to provide transportation

Most of our experience, our knowledge, and our thinking is organized as stories.

We’re designed to be active and engaged. And we know that the richest experiences in our lives aren’t when we’re clamoring for validation from others, but when we’re listening to our own voice, doing it well, and doing it in the service of a cause larger than ourselves

We defined intelligence as how well an individual adapts to his or her particular environment.

A relationship involved repeated encounters over time, where each interaction is affected by memory of past interaction and expectation about future interactions.

Relationships are patterns of coordination among individual animals.

Group-living animals must give up part of their individual freedoms in order to be a functioning part of the group.

Sociality, then, refers to “the compromises that individuals make, the mechanisms they use, and the means by which they maintain these social groups.

Across species, cooperation and affiliation are the major governing principles of animal sociality.

The development of knowledge may depend on maintaining an influx of the naive and the ignorant, and…competitive victory does not reliable go tot he properly educated. Groups that are too much alike find it harder to keep learning.

I could find no studies that showed an important advantage for expertise.

Number of studies have concluded that non psychologists, for instance, are actually better at predicting people’s behavior than psychologists are.

Experts decisions are seriously flawed. They are more likely to disagree as to agree.

Medical pathologists judgments was just .5, meaning that a pathologist presented with the same evidence would, half the time, offer a different opinion.

Physicians, nurses, lawyers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and investment bankers all believed that they knew more than they did.

Independence of opinion is both a crucial ingredient in collectively wise decision and one of the hardest things to keep in tact.

The smartest groups are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.

Above all there might be apprehension that social stabilization would too greatly interfere with the free action of individuals. As repeatedly emphasized, however, steady states in a society as a whole and steady states in its members are closely linked.

Just as social stabilization would foster the stability, both physical and mental, of the members of the social organism, so likewise it would foster their higher freedom, giving them serenity and leisure, which are the primary conditions for wholesome recreation ,for the discovery of a satisfactory and invigorating social milieu, and for the discipline and enjoyment of individual aptitudes.

They recognize that the social organism, like the bodily organism, cannot be vigorous and efficient unless its elements are assured the essential minimal conditions for healthful life and activity.

The organism suggests that stability is of prime importance. It is more important than economy.

The single-cell organism, living in a flowing stream, is dependent immediately on its surroundings; it has no means of controlling the environment and must submit wholly to what the environment imposes on it. Only when cells grow in masses do they acquire the possibility of developing an internal organization, capable of separating them from the disturbances due to shifts of external circumstances.

When cells grow in masses they still remain living units. Like the isolated single cell each cell in a complex organism has its own life processes.

Dramatic, entertaining, and psychologically true.

Every hero needs both inner and outer problems.

The mythological approach to story boils down to using metaphors or comparisons to get across your feelings about life.

Those who are put off by outward appearances cannot enter the special world, but those who can see past surface impressions to the inner reality are welcome.

A hero doesn’t have to be likable, but they must be relatable.

Many stories are about the journey to heal a wound and to restore a missing piece to a broken psyche.

Pride and arrogance is hubris. Nemesis is the goddess of retribution.

Scripts often fail because the stakes simply aren’t high enough.

A single word or theme i.e., Love, trust, betrayal or you can’t cheat an honest man, love conquers all etc.

Theme is close in meaning to the latin word premise—something set before.

It was much easier to reach a few thousand people who really need our product than try to compete for the attention of millions of scattered individuals.

Cut throat competition means your profits will be zero.

Once you create and dominate a niche market, then you should gradually expand into related and slightly broader markets.

Every startup should start with a very small market. The reason is simple: It’s easier to dominate a small market than a large one.

Eighty-nine sources, arranged alphabetically by name

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man

Man by nature is a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precede the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd

It is not wealth but character that lasts

Clear eyes. Full Hearts. Can’t lose.

It is from understanding that power comes. Nothing can live well except in a manner suited to the way the power of the world lives and moves to do its work

The power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round.

The woman is the life of the flowering tree, but the man must feed and care for it.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough, and the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The way it’s currently funded and evaluated, we’re learning more and more about less and less, and science is becoming our enemy instead of our friend.

Dispassionate philosopher inquiring into nature from the sheer love of knowledge, single-minded alchemist puttering about a secluded basement in search of elixirs to benefit all humanity. These ideals no longer fit most scientists.

Rare is it to be born a human; rarer still is it to have heard of enlightenment; and most rare is it to pursue enlightenment.

When one drops the desire to gain fame and fortune, one rises above the vulgar, when one no longer sets one’s mind on morality and righteousness, one enters sage hood.

The character that is like clear sky in broad daylight is generated in dark rooms under leaky roofs. The statesmanship that can right the course of the cosmos is born of probing profound depths and of treading on thin ice.

If there is beauty, then inevitable there is ugliness in opposition. If I take no pride in my beauty, who can call me ugly? Integrity is the opposite of corruption. If I do not covet integrity, who can call me corrupt?

When you let others crave things and don’t mind their intoxication with them; when you are calm and composed and don’t boast of your loftiness, then you fulfill the Buddhist dictum: “not being trapped by the Dharma and not being caught by the void leads to liberation of both body and mind.”.

The calm supremacy of the spirit over its circumstances.

A well-rounded man is an artist, warrior, and philosopher

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm

The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging our relationships

This idea that the whole world is wired together is mass death. Every biologist knows that a small group in isolation evolve fastest. You put a thousand birds on an ocean island and they’ll evolve very fast. You put ten thousand on a big continent, and their evolution slows down. Now, for our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt, and everybody on earth knows that innovation only occurs in small groups. Put three people on a committee and they get something done. Ten people, and it gets harder. Thirty people, and nothing happens. Thirty million, it becomes impossible. That’s the effect of mass media - it keeps anything from happening. Mass media swamps diversity. It makes every place the same- Bangkok or Tokyo or London: there’s a McdDonald’s on one corner, a Benetton on another, a Gap across the road. Regional differences vanish. All differences vanish. In a mass-media world, there’s less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity-our most necessary resource? That’s disappearing faster than trees. But we haven’t figured that out, so now we’re planning to put five billion people together in cyberspace. And it’ll freeze the entire species. everything will stop dead in its tracks. Everyone will think the same thing at the same time. Global uniformity.

What matters most is what you think about yourself. You must find the part in life that fits you and then give up acting; your profession is being.

It is love that moves the suns and stars

Those individuals which took the greatest pleasure in society would best escape various dangers; while those that cared least for their comrades and lived solitary would perish in greatest numbers. The very idea of humanity, as far as I could observe, was new to most Gauchos of the Pampas. This virtue, one of the noblest which man is endowed, seems to arise incidentally from our sympathies becoming more tender and more widely diffused, until they are extended to all sentient beings. As soon as this virtue is honored and practiced by some few men, it spreads through instruction and example to the young, and eventually through public opinion

So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it—perhaps as much more valuable as roots are more vital than grafts. It is good that new ideas should be heard, for the sake of the few that can be used, but it is also good that new ideas should be compiled to go through the mill of objection, opposition, and contumely; this is the trial heat which innovations must survive before being allowed to enter the human race. It is good that the old should resists the young, and that the young should prod the old; out of this tension, as out of the strife of the sexes and the classes, comes a creative tensile strength, a stimulated development, a secret and basic unity and movement of the whole.

The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

I have friends in overall whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world

We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you failure

I start where the last man left off

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it

Any fool can know. The point is to understand

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change

If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

You never fail until you stop trying

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science

I now bask in that solitude which was so painful to me in my youth

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how for one can go

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing

Chop your own wood and it will warm twice

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success

Success is 99% failure

None of our men are experts. We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the expert state of mind a great number of things become impossible.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy

To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large

If only you could love enough, you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world

To wear the world like a loose garment

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority

I am for doing good to the poor, but I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became powerless. And, on contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment

When you are finished changing, you’re finished

Life’s biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none

You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him to find it within himself

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

There are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand. And there are those who have the truth with them, but they tell not in words

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distills a poison in the wine. And if you sing through as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that denies whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen

I love those who yearn for the impossible

Talent develops itself in solitude; character in the stream of life.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take

A concise guide for spiritual living in the modern world. Stop worrying. Stop trying to dominate and posses your friends and relatives. Moderate ambition. Do not accumulate more than you need. Learn to relax. Cultivate a sense of humor. Find a reason for your own existence. Never intentionally harm any other person. Beware of anger. Never blame others for your own mistakes.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.

The lambs are led to slaughter by virtue of their innocence, which is simultaneously their weakness and their strength.

If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eight of it being above water. a writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand

When you stop doing things for fun, you might as well be dead

The first draft of anything is shit

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for a better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

When we step into farm fields, the vegetation becomes very quiet. Thanks to selective breeding, our cultivated plants have, for the most part, lost their ability to communicate above or below ground. Isolated by their silence, they are easy prey for insect pests.

The founding fathers were sages, scientists, men of broad cultivation, many of them apt in classical learning, who used their wide reading in history, politics, and law to solve the exigent problems of their time

One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude

It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling…

Sit down before fact like a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

I now intend to play the game of life, being receptive to whatever comes to me, good and bad, sun and shadow forever alternating, and, in this way, also accepting my own nature with its positive and negative sides. Thus everything becomes more alive to me. What a fool I was? How I tried to face everything to go according to the way I thought it ought to

Action will delineate and define you

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates

Real artists ship

The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.

To whom much is given, much is expected

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The Rebels, The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written. Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

And, my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you. And that, is what is going to happen to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.

If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.

Don’t think, feel

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge; it has to do with freedom. Trying to be what you are does not expend all your energy. Being what you are doesn't require any effort. When you become wise, you don’t have to use all those images you created; you don't have to pretend to be something else. You accept yourself the way you are, and the complete acceptance of yourself becomes the complete acceptance of everyone else. You no longer try to change other people or impose your point of view. You accept your body and your own humanity with all the instincts of your body. There is nothing wrong with being an animal. We are animals, and animals always follow their instinct. We are humans, and because we are so intelligent, we learn to repress our instincts; we don't listen to what comes from the heart. That’s why we go against our own body and try to repress the needs of the body or deny they exist. When you become wise, you respect your body, you respect your mind, you respect your soul. When you become wise, your life is controlled by your heart, not your head. You no longer sabotage yourself, your own happiness, or your own love. You no longer carry all the guilt and blame; you no longer hold all those judgments against yourself, and you no longer judge anyone else. Surrender all those ideas about being what you are not, and become what you really are. When you surrender to your nature, to what you really are, you no longer suffer. When you surrender to the real you, you surrender to Life, you surrender to God. Once you surrender, there is no longer a struggle. Being wise, you always go for the easy way, which is to be yourself, whatever you are. Suffering is nothing but resistance to God. The more you resist, the more you suffer.

Everything the soul endeavors or endures under the guidance of wisdom ends in happiness.

If people know how are I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of making, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way. The enjoyments of life are sufficient to make it a pleasant thing, when they are taken en passant, without being made a principal object. Once make them so, and they are immediately felt to be insufficient. They will not bear scrutinizing examination. Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat, not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life. Let your self-consciousness, your scrutiny, your circumstanced you will inhale happiness with the air you breathe, without dwelling on it or thinking about it, without either forestalling it in imagination, or putting it to flight by fatal questioning

A mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, and a Hell of Heaven.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

I walk down the street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I fall in.

I am lost…I am helpless

It isn’t my fault.

It takes forever to find a way out.

I walk down the same street

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I pretend I don’t see it.

I fall in again.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants

He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

When we are alone and quiet we are afraid that something will be whispered in our ear, and so we hate the silence and drug ourselves with social life

My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us. One is fear. It carries anxiety, concern, uncertainty, hesitancy, indecision and inaction. The other is faith. It brings calm, conviction, confidence, enthusiasm, decisiveness, excitement and action. Which wolf wins? The one you feed

Do not seek to much fame,

But do not seek obscurity.

Be proud.

But do not remind the world of your deeds.

Excel when you must,

But do not excel the world.

Many heroes are not yet born.

Many have already died.

To be alive to hear this song is a victory.

The worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon turns ashes - or it prospers; and anon, like snow upon the desert’s dusty face. Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice

Art is the lie that helps us see the truth

A true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever

If the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way.

By concentrating the thoughts, one can fly; by concentrating the desires, one falls. Only through contemplation and quietness does true intuition arise.

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the grain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies; and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of day is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retainers her. With all thy getting, get understanding.

I bargained with life for a penny

And life would pay no more

However I begged at evening

When I counted my scanty store

For life is just employer

He gives what you ask

But once you have set the wages

Why you must bear the task

I worked for a menials hire

Only to learn dismayed

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

I cannot believe the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all

Curvaceous women have leveraged this power to manipulate even the most accomplished, disciplined men for as long as anyone’s been around to notice. Empires have fallen, wills have been revised, millions of magazines and calendars sold, Super Bowl audiences scandalized…all in response to the mysterious force emanating from what are, after all, small bags of fat.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear

A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

How much is there in the world that I do not want

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man. The free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

In the beginners mind, there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few.

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment...”

Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.”

“All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”

When we speak of man, we have a conception of humanity as a whole, and before applying scientific methods to the investigation of his movement we must accept this as a physical fact. But can anyone doubt to-day that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and characters constitute an entity, a unit? Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them. I cut myself in the finger, and it pains me: this finger is a part of me. I see a friend hurt, and it hurts me, too: my friend and I are one. And now I see stricken down an enemy, a lump of matter which, of all the lumps of matter in the universe, I care least for, and it still grieves me. Does this not prove that each of us is only part of a whole? For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring peace and harmony among men, but as a deeply founded truth. The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one. Metaphysical proofs are, however, not the only ones which we are able to bring forth in support of this idea. Science, too, recognizes this connectedness of separate individuals, though not quite in the same sense as it admits that the suns, planets, and moons of a constellation are one body, and there can be no doubt that it will be experimentally confirmed in times to come, when our means and methods for investigating psychical and other states and phenomena shall have been brought to great perfection. Still more: this one human being lives on and on. The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains. Therein lies the profound difference between the individual and the whole.”

What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth and the elimination of that fanatic devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride, which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife.

Simplify! Simplify! And, indeed, simplification is one mark of real genius.

There are people who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded

Tom had discovered a great law of human action namely, that in order to make man covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing

Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you're writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddam death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you've got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for god’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t have to

When you get what you want in your struggle for self

And the world makes you king for a day

Just go to the mirror and look at yourself

And see what that man has to say.

For it isn’t your father, or mother, or wife

Whose judgment upon you must pass

The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life

Is the one staring back from the glass.

He’s the fellow to please – never mind all the rest

For he’s with you, clear to the end