When seeking guidance, don't ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessing, cajole them, but do not follow their advice.
Interpretation
Seek guidance from those with a broad perspective and avoid the negative influences of small-minded individuals.
This quote emphasizes the importance of choosing the right sources when seeking advice or guidance. It suggests that instead of allowing the small-minded or 'tiny-hearted' people to sway your decisions, it's better to be compassionate towards them without letting their limited views dictate your path. True wisdom comes from those who encourage growth and positivity, not from those who are mired in negativity.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire individuals to trust their intuition over negative feedback.
Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.
Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.
Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success.
Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.
There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.
To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.
Leave your front door and your back door open. _x000D_ Allow your thoughts to come and go. _x000D_ Just don't serve them tea.
Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second.
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