self awareness
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“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”
– Kurt Cobain
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“Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening you knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.”
— Tao Te Ching – Chapter 9
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“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”
— Carl Jung
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“There is another type of fiction which we create all the time to glorify ourselves and denounce others. We backbite more and praise less. We project ourselves as smarter than what we actually are and discredit the smartness of others. We cover our follies and believe that we are great, good and virtuous and brand others as evil and vicious.”
— Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts. It is made up of our thoughts. If one speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows one, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the wagon. All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts. It is made up of our thoughts. If one speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows one, like a shadow that never leaves.
— Dhammapada 1-2 / Müller & Maguire, 2002.
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Stupidity—The top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. Satanists must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid.
— Anton LaVey
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We should tell ourselves we’re ignorant | Emma Kay Tocci | TEDxNYUAD
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A Cup of Tea
Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.
Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring.
The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!”
“Like this cup,” Nan-in said, “you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”
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“In physics, a unified field theory (UFT) is a type of field theory that allows all that is usually thought of as fundamental forces and elementary particles to be written in terms of a pair of physical and virtual fields. According to the modern discoveries in physics, forces are not transmitted directly between interacting objects but instead are described and interpreted by intermediary entities called fields.”
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When a Satanist commits a wrong, he realizes that is it natural to make a mistake―and if he is truly sorry about what he has done, he will learn from it and take care not to do the same thing again. If he is not honestly sorry about what he has done, and knows he will do the same thing over and over, he has no business confessing and asking forgiveness in the first place.
— Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible
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“In philosophy, the self is the relationship of an individual’s own being, knowledge and values. Self relates the experiences of one’s inner and outer living in presence.”
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What is Soul Work? – The Path of Embodying Unconditional Love
“Soul Work is the contemplative practice of turning inwards and rediscovering our True Nature in the present moment. Quite literally, Soul Work means doing the Soul’s work of going within and coming back home to Spirit.
Every Soul has a deep yearning to find truth, freedom, love, and peace.”