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.
I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
Use the smallest word that does the job.
If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
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