“There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love...Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self-love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.” LoveTryingSelfHateUniverseNamesAwarenessSelf LoveCallingOneselfConvictionConvincedFrustrationWarmthFormulasImpossibilityCondemnationLove Everyone Author:Shunryu Suzuki
“....religion may be best be described as an emotion resting on a conviction of a harmony between ourselves and the universe at large.” MayUniverseEmotionHarmonyConviction Author:J. M. E. McTaggart
“What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his stand,and from it philosophy starts in its study of the universe of mind as well as the universe of nature.” MenMindWellsReasonPhilosophyRealityUniverseStudyPhilosophicalPhilosopherConvictionRationalRealism Book:Philosophy of right Source: Philosophy of right
“No one really can have any idea if it's luck or happenstance or timing or fate or the universe or just smart choices that grant you a good life, a happy one. All we can do is decide to own our choices no matter what, to honor them and ourselves as best we can. That whatever is within our control (and there is plenty that is not) is ours. Mine. Responsibility. Conviction.” IfsIdeasMatterChoicesUniverseCan DoResponsibilityFateMinesHonorSmartNo Matter WhatLuckConvictionPlentyGrantsGood LifeTimingOur ChoicesHappenstanceSmart Choices Author:Allison Winn Scotch