You, and you alone, get to determine whether you are going to react positively about something or negatively about something - or, interestingly, have no reaction at all. Your emotions are entirely under your control. Your feelings are what you want them to be.
Interpretation
You have the power to control your emotional responses to situations.
This quote emphasizes the importance of personal agency in how we respond to various events in our lives. Neale Donald Walsch highlights that our emotions are not dictated by external factors but are within our control, encouraging us to take responsibility for our feelings and reactions.
In practice
In a motivational seminar about personal growth, you could use this quote to inspire attendees to take charge of their emotional lives.
What you hope, you will eventually believe. _x000D_ What you believe you will eventually know. What you know, you will eventually create. What you create, _x000D_ you will eventually experience. What you experience, _x000D_ you will eventually express. What you express, _x000D_ you will eventually become. _x000D_ This is the formula for all of life.
Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.
Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.
Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.
When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.
Giving up is not the answer. Neither is giving in. Stand your ground. There is a way of doing that without having to be combative. There is a way of hanging on to your true self, and demonstrating it, without resorting to aggression. But giving up and giving in is not the way. Simply and quietly claiming your right to be You is the way.
Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.
I see what you mean. It must be a huge relief, and an easy way out, to think the devil is always outside of us. (…) we would stop looking for Sheitan outside and instead focus on ourselves. What we need is sincere self-examination. Not being on the watch for the faults of others.” (p. 257).
Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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