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“Brain wave tests prove that when we use positive words, our "feel good" hormones flow. Positive self-talk releases endorphins and serotonin in our brain, which then flow throughout our body, making us feel good. These neurotransmitters stop flowing when we use negative words.”

Feels Self Use Body Brain Prove Negative Flow Tests Wave Feel Good Release Affirmation Hormones Self Talk Positive Words Endorphins Positive Self Negative Words Neurotransmitters

Author:Ruth Fishel

“If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent.”

Ifs Doe Self Life Is Lines Masters Flow Currents Supreme Temptation Satan Electric Invited Ceremony Electric Current Master Ceremony

Author:F. Huegel

“This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.”

Giving Self Joy Natural Wealth Support Products Flow Prosperity Riches True Wealth Self Loving

Book:Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts

Source: Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts

“We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.”

Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

“Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prision. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. It will not lead you astray. Let the beauty you seek be what you do.”

World Inspirational Made Soul Self Attention Vision This World Ocean Flow Rivers Paid Burden Made It Your Soul Streams Rise Above

Author:Rumi

“It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow.”

Self Christ Sin Flow Crosses Calvary

Book:The Complete Green Letters

Source: The Complete Green Letters

“One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain. Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer. To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.”

Ifs Knows Men World Doe Self Pain Suffering Wish Pleasure Existence Watches Flow Rivers Empty Likes Lasting One Man Dislike Void Stable Another Man Accord True Peace Likes And Dislikes

Author:Ajahn Chah

“Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which are continuously subjected to critique, rebuttal, and reexamination.”

People Self Government Opinion Succeed Flow Steady Freedom Of Speech Critique Robust Self-government Rebuttal

Author:William O. Douglas

“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.”

“Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for power and dominance, a place that could channel the fires of the global wirings, where political alliances are subject to electrical ebb and flow, and the alchemical cultivations of imagination and perception, of the self, could precail of the ideology of capital.”

“Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the American experiment in individual liberty, free enterprise and republican self-government could succeed only if power were widely distributed. And since in any society social and political power flow from economic power, they saw that wealth and property would have to be widely distributed among the people of the country. The truth of this insight is immediately apparent.”

“Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow.”

Self Action Awareness Flow Welcome Slow Down

Author:Steven Kotler

“There is a way to again be in real time with the universe, but it is not through force, imagination or manipulation. It is by finding your true Self. When you do, you will not need to manipulate life, it will simply flow.”

Way Life Needs Real Self Time Universe Force Imagination Findings Flow Manipulation True Self Manipulate

Book:White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji

Source: White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji

“When you look at your freelance career, it's really like a mall. And if you look at a mall, it's a self-contained system that has a flow and logic to it. You'll probably have one or two really bigger jobs, those are like your anchor stores.”

Ifs Looks Two Self Jobs Careers Like You Flow Logic Bigger Stores Anchors Malls Self Contained

Author:Chris Hardwick

“That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of speciesists. Tie the label Homo sapiens even to a tiny piece of insensible embryonic tissue, and its life suddenly leaps to infinite, incomputable value.... Self-styled pro-lifers, and others that indulge in footling debates about exactly when in its development a foetus becomes human, exhibit the same discontinuous mentality. Human, to the discontinuous mind, is an absolutist concept. There can be no half measures. And from this flows much evil.”

“When your fulfillment and sense of self are no longer dependent on the future outcome, joy flows into whatever you do. You do what you do because the action itself is fulfilling. Whatever you do or create in that state is of high quality. This is because it is not a means to an end, and so a loving care flows into your doing.”

Mean Ends Self States Care Action Joy Quality Flow Fulfillment Outcomes Dependent Fulfilling Sense Of Self High Quality Means To An End

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.”

Soul Self Choices Cases Flow Reincarnation Previous Life

Author:Plato

“Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.”

Men Self States Consciousness Becoming Flow Ghost Passing Passings Flux States Of Consciousness Wisps

Book:Jack London Six Pack

Source: Jack London Six Pack

“Since the only life you can have is the life of the Spirit within you, you need but permit Its radiance to flow through your thought into self-expression. You are surrounded by a dynamic force, a great surge of living power. You are immersed in and saturated with the vital essence of Life. Its presence permeates everything, binding all together in one complete whole.”

Needs Self Whole Together Spirit Force Expression Flow Essence Permit Within You Self Expression Binding Radiance Saturated Essence Of Life

Book:This Thing Called You

Source: This Thing Called You

“Everything around you, especially your home environment, mirrors your inner self. So by changing your home, you also change the possibilities in your own life. Removing the obstacles to the harmonious flow of energy in your living environment creates more harmony in your life and the space for wonderful new opportunities to come to you.”

Self Home Opportunity Energy Space Environment Wonderful Possibility Flow Harmony Mirrors Obstacles Inner Self Harmonious New Opportunity Home Environment

Book:Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Revised and Updated): Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever

Source: Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Revised and Updated): Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever

“In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.”

Has Beens Self Light Sun Cutting Conscious Flow Sacred Edges Revelations Flash Self Conscious Intervals Profane Snapshots Picture Frames

Author:Adrienne Rich

“Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated.”

World Self Style Particular Source Balance Discipline Flow Breaths Simplicity Flight Reasonable Composer Sensibility Self Discipline Spontaneity Provinces Refinement Sophistication

Author:Aaron Copland

“From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy.”

May Self Joy Loss Humility Bears Flow Mere Sorry Streams Insult Reports Self Knowledge Offense Consolation

Author:St. Catherine of Siena

“I learned that I could control my life. You are the master of your fate. . . you are the captain of your soul. I took control and went to my space. . . My space. . . the universal energy. . . I tapped into that space of divine flow, where all beings, all things are connected. That space is real. You cannot have a meaningful life without having spiritual self-reflection. Know who you are and why you are here. When you tap into that space, divine flow, that universal energy, you become untouchable in what you are called to do.”

“Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.”

Self Movement Flow Bubbles Subjective Tunnels Phenomenal Embedded

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“"Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across - permeates - the boundaries of the self.”

Self Influence Disease Flow Boundaries Italian Outbreaks Influenza

Author:Laura Mullen

“When your awareness is contracted, the flow of energy and information throughout your bodymind is hampered. You tend to stay stuck in toxic emotions such as regret, resentment, and self-pity. Non-nurturing habits such as overeating and not exercising take hold. The feedback loop between your mind and your body turns negative, and stress can hit you instantaneously or grind away at you day after day.”

Mind Self Body Turns Energy Emotion Awareness Information Regret Habit Exercise Negative Flow Stress Your Body Stuck Pity Toxic Resentment Feedback Nurturing Grind Self Pity Loops Overeating

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Love is never giving up and yet a lot of surrender. Self-care. Truth. Trust. Openness. Growth. Courage. Faith. Collaboration. Compassion. Communication. Affection. Support. Passion. Joy. Warmth. Mindfulness. Rigorous self-work. Sympatico, empathy, flow. Forgiveness.”

Giving Self Care Joy Passion Growth Love Is Compassion Support Communication Giving Up Mindfulness Empathy Flow Affection Surrender Openness Warmth Collaboration Self Care Never Giving Up

Author:Claudia Black

“Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of recent events or the flow of society.”

Wells Self Fantasy Events Creating Flow Fabric Illusory Plunder Recent Events

Author:Vera Nazarian

“Unless we're completely awake, have a degree of that. We tense against love and hold on in a way that doesn't let it flow. When that's really strong, the key piece to freeing our hearts is self-compassion.”

Way Heart Self Strong Compassion Pieces Keys Degrees Flow Awake Tense Self Compassion Against Love

Author:Tara Brach

“British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.”

Ideas Self Fashion Flow Constant Refuse British Drawing Fearless Heritage Bows Commerce New Ideas Self Confident

Author:Alexander McQueen

“Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love.”

“Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.”

Thinking May Children Has Beens War Self Enough Seems Humanity Sin Pay Race Steps Sacrifice Blood Blessing Flow Our Children Painful Punishment Every Step Self Sacrifice Ascent

Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery

“If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.”

Source: The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast

“A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.”

Persons Self Spiritual Attention Ego Flow Seeking Genuine

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception, and in which all absence is merely the obverse of a presence, all silence a modality of the being of sound, I enjoy a sort of ubiquity and theoretical eternity, I feel destined to move in a flow of endless life, neither the beginning nor the end of which I can experience in thought, since it is my living self who think of them, and since thus my life always precedes and survives itself.”

Source: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

“Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simply to be, without defenses or desires. I will appreciate the flow of life for what it is-my own true self. I will notice those moments of intimacy with myself, when I feel that “I am” is enough to sustain me forever. I will lie on the grass at one with nature, expanding until my being fades into the infinite.”

Want Feels Self Enough Moments Home Today Spiritual Lying Desire My Own Forever Safe Appreciate Flow Infinite Defense Intimacy Grass Fades True Self Expanding One With Nature

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air of freedom and forget my own petty self. In love my whole being streams forth out of the rigid confines of narrowness and anxious self-assertion, which make me a prisoner of my own poverty emptiness. In love all the powers of my soul flow out toward you, wanting never more to return, but to lose themselves completely in you, since by your love you are the inmost center of my heart, closer to me than I am to myself.”

Heart Soul Self Whole Loses My Own Forget Poverty Air Love You Return My Heart Spring Flow Breathe My Soul Streams Emptiness Gates Allowing Prisoner Anxious Petty Assertion

Author:Karl Rahner

“Hitoshi: I'll never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot stop. I haven't a choice. I go. One caravan has stopped, another starts up. There are people I've yet to meet, others I'll never see again. People who are gone before you know it, people who are just passing through. Even as we exchange hellos, they seem to grow transparent. I must keep living with the flowing river before my eyes. I earnestly pray that a trace of my girl-child self will always be with you. For waving good-bye, I thank you.”

Source: Three plays

“It seemed to Alabama that, reaching her goal, she would drive the devils that had driven her - that, in proving herself, she would achieve that peace which she imagined went only in surety of one’s self - that she would be able, through the medium of the dance, to command her emotions, to summon love or pity or happiness at will, having provided a channel through which they might flow. She drove herself mercilessly, and the summer dragged on.”

Self Might Would Be Able Goal Emotion Achieve Prove Summer Devil Flow Driven Pity Command Mediums Reaching Alabama

Author:Zelda Fitzgerald

“She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.”

Ideas Self Impossible Expression Flow Confused Desirable Self Expression

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Sometimes river flows very strong, sometimes it flows very small, but it makes no difference to the ocean because it is satisfied in itself with its own quantity of water. Similarly, when our heart is cleansed with spirituality, we find pleasure and ecstasy with our own selves that is so sweet, so wonderful and so satisfying, that the so-called pleasures of this world no longer have any values, no appeal at all.”

“Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a balanced state of being and highly intelligent. Self-consciousness inhibits this intelligent, balanced state of being. By opening, by dropping our self-conscious grasping, we see not only the surface of an object, but we see the whole way through.”

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

“A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more instructed race comes on, the sentiment becomes more and more intuitive, and a fourth, a fifth, or some subsequent one of the ever renewed attempts will ultimately succeed... To attain all this, however, rivers of blood must yet flow, and years of desolation pass over; yet the object is worth rivers of blood and years of desolation. For what inheritance so valuable can man leave to his posterity?”

Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson

“Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.”

Life Mean Self Wisdom Spiritual Moving Struggle Flow Who You Are Allowing Life Struggle Life Means

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.”

People Self Action Energy Self Esteem Ready Confidence Activity Flow Rewards Self Confidence Esteem Openness Tangible Readiness High Road Energy Flow Taking The High Road

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment with your scene partner. You don't want to let your own self-consciousness block the flow of creativity that's coming out so that you can act and react, and play what the scene is all about.”

Want Important Self Play Moments Consciousness Creativity Scene Flow Important Things Available Partners Block Coming Out Preparing Self Consciousness

Author:Gale Harold

“The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.”

Self Left Creativity Creative Capacity Flow Importance Proportion Compulsion Inverse

Author:Eric Hoffer

“We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for, processed by our women friends. Relationships are the conduits through which flows our connection with each other.”

Self Quality Lovers Flow Connections Self Worth Interaction Gauges

Author:Carrie Preston

“By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior selves. We would stem this flow if we were to shift attention too quickly either to their request or to our own desire to express ourselves.”

Ifs Self Desire Chance Attention Offers Empathy Flow Stem Interiors Maintaining Request

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg