Adam B

“The goal of monk thinking is a life free of ego, envy, lust, anxiety, anger, bitterness, baggage.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“In relation to therapeutic issues where we are manufacturing our own pain, the pain must be understood as a failure of creativity. The response to a certain situation has rigidified. We have lost our ability to create new responses for new situations. We do not understand how we have participated in creating our pain. We are no longer able to recognize new situations when they occur.”
― Greg Johanson, Grace Unfolding: Psychotherapy in the Spirit of Tao-te ching

“You once told me that the human eye is god’s loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn’t even know there’s another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty. Opening the front door to the first snowfall of my life, you whispered, “Look.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourself to be, is the ability and the power to do whatever you need to do to be happy and successful. Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs. Just as quickly as you can dehypnotize yourself from the ideas of “I can’t,” “I’m not worthy,” “I don’t deserve it” and other self-limiting ideas.”
― Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life