“If you see yourself in a favorable light, if your image of yourself is pleasant, if this visual concept of yourself cannot be shaken by temporary defeats, then you have reached the goal achieved by the most fortunate. Not everyone reaches this mental state; in fact, many people do not even believe it is possible. Happiness and peace of mind are a matter of consciousness. We must create the inner-harmony we desire. This type of awareness is not an accident, it comes from study and an understanding that we are truly creative.” PeopleIfsMindBelieveMatterStatesFactsLightDesireUnderstandingGoalConsciousnessCreativeStudyAwarenessTypeConceptsHarmonyDefeatAccidentsFortunatePleasantVisualsPeace Of MindTemporaryTemporary Defeat Author:Bob Proctor
“What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.” ConsciousnessDisciplineUnityGreedDefeatTechnologicalSuperiorityLawlessness Author:Toni Cade Bambara
“Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.” MenGrowthConsciousnessCourageGreaterLoversVictoryAmbitionCrisisInstinctDefeatProfitNapoleonic Author:Norman Mailer
“Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning [to] consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul?” YearsHeartTwoSoulFightingNationsConsciousnessAcceptingHundredDefeatEndlessGenerosityAcknowledgeAggressionSuccessionFamineMassacresNever SurrenderIreland And The IrishInsensibilitySmall Nations Author:Eamon de Valera
“I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.” MeanDiesCommunityLevelsConsciousnessStepsHigherDefeatExpectedTrialsRevolutionaryGasPatriotismRebellionChamberHigher LevelGas Chambers Book:Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Source: Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)