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“Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.”

Mind Mean Doe Real Suffering Causes Enjoy Understanding Cold Becoming Overcoming Contrary Fulfillment Attachment Indifferent Enjoy Life Relaxed

Book:How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)

Source: How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)

“In a sense, sexual harassment lawsuits are just the latest version of the female selection process allowing her to select for men who care enough for her to put their career at risk; who have enough finesse to initiate without becoming a jerk and enough guts to initiate despite a potential lawsuit. In the past, though, the process of his overcoming her barriers was called 'courtship.' Now it is called either 'courtship' or 'sexual harassment'.”

Men Enough Care Past Process Careers Risk Becoming Female Overcoming Versions Despite Guts Barriers Allowing Who Cares Selection Select Jerk Harassment Courtship Initiate Lawsuit Finesse

Author:Warren Farrell

“The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.”

Firsts Term Becoming Overcoming Barack Accomplishment Historic American Politics Blackness Everest Mt Everest

Author:Randall Kennedy

“For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the many leaders who played a key role in abolishing slavery, protecting civil rights and, hopefully one day, becoming a nation where all life from conception to natural death is protected.”

“When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-, 60-year-old men and women. This big, Victorian mental house. There were like five boys in there, all my age, looked after by this woman who was 22 or 23. And it was like "Empire of the Sun" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"-type of arrangement where you've got this young boy overcoming and becoming heroic in the face of this awful place.”

“Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.”

Moments Pain Past Suffering Becoming Overcoming Focused Overcoming Fear Resisting Physical Pain

Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“The gospel of the Savior is not simply about avoiding bad in our lives; it also is essentially about doing and becoming good. And the Atonement provides help for us to overcome and avoid bad and to do and become good. Help from the Savior is available for the entire journey of mortality - from bad to good to better and to change our very nature.”

Helping Our Lives Journey Becoming Overcoming Available Mortality Savior Avoiding Atonement

Author:David A. Bednar

“At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that’s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn’t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom.”

Source: Nothing by chance: a gypsy pilot's adventures in modern America

“The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.”

“By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the dichotomy between current evolutionists who see no design in evolution, and creationists who often propose and anthropomorphic God as creator.”

Understanding Design Expression Evolution Becoming Conscious Overcoming Universal Currents Creator Propose Dichotomy

Book:Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

Source: Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

“The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining others in a common task; and to bring for the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.”

People Giving Purpose Chance Common Existence Becoming Needed Ego Tasks Overcoming Coaching Goods Faculty Joining Goods And Services Centeredness

Author:E. F. Schumacher