"The best predictor of someone's future behavior is their past behavior"
Request: I just heard this in an interview of Jordan Peterson by Piers Morgan.
Quotes
“The ones that love us never really leave us”
Request: quote from Harry Potter, said by Sirius Black.
writer Heidi Priebe on love and grief (quote)
Priority request.
Kierkegaard, on the power of walking
Priority request. The following quote from theologian and philosopher Soren Kierkegaard is calibrated.
"The desire to let it go must be equal to that which created it in the first place"
Request: Said by Doc in the video just after 7:30.
To err is human, to forgive divine
Alexander Pope said it.
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise"
Priority request: Benjamin Franklin quote.
level: life is suffering
Request: "…that’s clear. There is no more basic, irrefutable truth. It’s basically what God tells Adam and Eve, immediately before he kicks them out of Paradise" -- 12 Rules for Life, Jordan Peterson.
"well, that's just your opinion, man"
A version of "Yeah? Well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man," from The Big Lebowski. Exhibits a posture that can be helpful in preserving psychic boundaries.
"Picture life exactly as you'd like it to be..."
"...then let go of all the blocks to it being that way." Priority request: Doc said this at the start of one lecture right after saying "nothing is causing anything" (which he always said). It surprised me when he said it because it sounds very law of attraction-y to me.
Quote by Epictetus...
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
Tony Robbins on change...
"Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change." Priority request.
“Disregard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen..."
"...and you need not search for truth; truth will find you” -- Nisargadatta Maharaj.
"The world is the theatrical stage for the comedy of the absurd"
Hawkins, from Reality, Subjectivity & Modern Man, 2008. Post includes an article with a spiritual practice at 595.
"The magic you're looking for is in the work you're avoiding"
Request: Not magic as magical... I would assume in the meaning of the beauty and the wonders of life you expect are things that you would access if you go [beyond] your own limits?