If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so. The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.
Interpretation
Your mindset shapes your reality, and you can choose to see yourself in a more empowering light.
This quote emphasizes the power of choice in shaping our self-perception and reality. It suggests that if we see ourselves as limited or scarred, it is a choice we make rather than an absolute truth, and that we always have the opportunity to redefine our self-concept and embrace a more positive and empowered view of ourselves.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming fears and limitations.
The Buddha said that all conscious beings possess an enlightened nature. _x000D_ _x000D_ Because of that, we have this natural purity, peacefulness and power. _x000D_ _x000D_ We can rest the mind naturally because we are already in possession of these qualities. _x000D_ _x000D_ If one can rest the mind naturally, that's the best meditation.
Meditation is really quite simple. All we have to do is embrace each experience with awareness and open our hearts fully to the present moment. When we are completely at ease with our own being, the ripples of awareness naturally spread out in all directions, touching the lives of everyone we meet.
The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience.
There's no difference between what is seen and the mind that sees it.
Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart. It's always with us. It always has been, and always will be. When it arises in us, we've simply learned to see how strong and safe we really are.
It’s so easy to think that we’re the only ones who suffer, while other people are somehow immune to pain, as though they’d been born with some kind of special knowledge about being happy, that, through some cosmic accident, we never received. Thinking in this way, we make our own problems seem much bigger than they really are.
The real magic wand is the child's own mind.
There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.
You never get over losses. I've never gotten over one loss I've had in my career. They always stick with me.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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