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“The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.”

Life Self Achieve Behavior Shadow Profound Rewards Shadow Work

Book:Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life

Source: Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life

“When we react to life from the head without joining forces with the heart, it can lead us into childish, inelegant behavior that we don't respect in ourselves. If we get the head in sync with the heart first, we have the power of their teamwork working for us and we can make the changes we know we need to make.”

Ifs Knows Life Inspirational Needs Firsts Heart Force Inspirational Life Behavior Teamwork Joining Sync

Author:Doc Childre

“The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.”

Life Persons Science Order Decision Situation Special Behavior Madness Strategy Schizophrenic

Author:R. D. Laing

“To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.”

People Thinking Knows Life Inspirational Pay Behavior Philosophical Regard

Author:George Santayana

“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”

People Life Trying Situation Behavior Ordinary Assuming Smallest Ordinary People Disagreeable Expenditures

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.”

“Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.”

Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

“Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.”

Men Life Firsts Soul Science Animal Progress Behavior Survival Ethics Intelligent Instinct Primaries Ethical Ingenuity Ethical Behavior

Author:Charlie Chaplin