“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.” HumansReasonActionDesirePassionCausesNatureChanceHabitPhilosophicalExcellenceSevenCompulsionHuman ActionsDaily HabitsMoral ExcellencePassion And DesirePassion For Excellence Author:Aristotle
“Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.” MeanSoulDesireHabitEgoLiberationGuidanceBondageCompulsionObeying Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.” MindHabitDisciplineActivityDesirableWillpowerCompulsionUndesirableHabits Of Mind Book:On Education Source: On Education
“Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.” TryingMeanFeelingsCertainHabitBusyAcknowledgeTensionManipulateCompulsionDoing Nothing Author:Sharon Salzberg