Playing with Perspectives

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Could you be using skepticism as a defense mechanism? What is good-quality skepticism?

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Don't confuse having talked extensively about a subject with understanding it. These are two different domains. 

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The truth isn't about yourself! - it might even go against your agenda, wishes, beliefs, and expectations. Given that, avoid falling into the trap of self-importance.

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Practice differentiating between perception, thought, and feeling within your experience.

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If you don't change course, you might end up where you're headed.

- Attributed to Lao-tzu.

 

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Encountering a person rather than your notions about them fosters a more present and dynamic relationship. In contrast, interacting with your concepts of them buries the conscious being before you beneath layers of opinion, preference, past associations, and the like.

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What is it to be in relation to?

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How you speak, and the language you employ, reveals the way you think and experience things. 

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How do discovery and invention differ?

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Where is pain to be found? Try to locate it.

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The social domain, which includes culture, is lived as an objective reality, something existing out there independent of us, as if it were a hidden "person" or realm operating on its own.

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If you don't write of things

Deep in your own heart,

What's the use

Of churning out so many words?

— Ryokan.

 

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Why is it easier to destroy than to create? What forms of destruction do you often engage in? What would you like to create?

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What are the components of powerful communication?

• Being present, as if "behind" the communication itself.
• Being at the source of your experience - and grounded in it.

Edited Saturday at 08:13 PM by UnbornTao

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True creativity is inventing something that didn't existed before. What often passes as creativity in our culture consists of putting things together--and adding some of your "personality" to the mix. 

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It is what we don't know that hurts us. There is no such thing as being in conscious pain, if you’re in pain it’s because you’re unconscious, that means you don’t see something, you don’t understand something.

So freedom from pain and suffering and confusion can only come by you knowing what you are all about and it can be done.

– Vernon Howard.

 

Edited May 25 by UnbornTao