“Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.” IfsMindStatesFactsHappensPainCourageWonderfulBrokenBraveMiseryFinancialIllnessThings HappenReactionsInevitableControlledState Of MindWoeBe BraveWonderful ThingsAlteredOptionalPhysical PainBroken Relationship Author:Barbara
“Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or you? What’s causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. It’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. We might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind.” TryingMindHumansMadeFeelingsProblemRealityMightPainSleepStupidFineRainNegativeTablesAddBusyReactionsKneesHuman MindKeep TryingBumpsPicnicsNegative Feelings Book:Awareness: Conversations with the Masters Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard and to imagine the actions and reactions in your head, but it's a completely other thing to hear actors speaking your words, to see their bodies bringing the fullness of emotion, need, desire and pain to life right in front of you. It's amazing.” NeedsWritingBodyActionPainFilmDesireActorsEmotionImagineOne ThingFrontsSceneReactionsFullnessKeyboardsAction And Reaction Author:Dee Rees
“Since the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them - i.e., reflecting - if you can develop a knee-jerk reaction to pain that is to reflect rather than to fight or flee, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving.” IfsThinkingWayLifeProblemPainFightingGrowthSolutionsPersonal GrowthInvestingPainfulReactionsEvolveKneesRapidsReflectingJerkKnee Jerk ReactionsThinking Deeply Author:Ray Dalio
“Islam has taken everything from its wretched believers. They are robbed from their identity and self pride. All they have now is Islam. That is why Islam for Muslims is more than just a religion. It is their identity. When you criticize Islam, they perceive it as an attack on their identity and cringe with pain. They take that not only as an insult but also as an assault on their person. Like a corned animal they become vicious and fight back with all their might - a fight of survival. That is why you see such a violent reaction to a few silly cartoons.” PersonsSelfMightPainFightingAnimalTakenIdentityPrideSurvivalIslamBelieverSillyViolentReactionsPerceiveInsultCriticizeCartoonAssaultViciousWretchedCringe Author:Ali Sina