"Have you a plan?"
"Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence."
"Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove."
"I don't believe anything. Since we all create our habitual reality-tunnels, either consciously and intelligently or unconsciously and mechanically, I prefer to create... the happiest, funniest, and most romantic reality-tunnel consistent with the signals my brain apprehends. I feel sorry for people who persistently organize experience into sad, dreary and hopeless reality tunnels, and try to show them how to break the bad habit, but I don't feel any masochistic duty to share their misery... My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism... not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything." - Robert Anton Wilson
"We become what we think about."
"The more choices you have, the less life kicks you around. It's better to be strong than weak. And it's better to be quick than slow. Better to know than to not know." - Robert B. Parker
"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better" - Émile Coué
"It is always about you and your body. It's how you see yourself, and as a result, how you see the rest of the world. The body dictates everything. It's where it all starts. What you can make it do. What you can make it endure. How quick you can be. How precise. How quiet, and strong, and flexible and still... It is at the heart of everything you do, and you must be able to trust it absolutely..." - Greg Rucka, Critical Space
Whatever it takes.
Don't try to change other people. It's a full time job changing yourself. - Sagi Kalev
Inside you are two Abeds.
They are fighting all the time.
Which one wins?
Movie Reference.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
“People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a ‘common purpose.’ Cause pretty soon they have little hats and armbands. And fight songs. And a list of people they’re going to visit at 3am. So I dislike and despise groups of people but I love individuals. Every person you look at; you can see the universe in their eyes, if you’re really looking.” - George Carlin
"Dalton: All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it’s absolutely necessary. And three, be nice... I want you to be nice until it's time to not be nice."
"Doc: Your file says you've got a degree from NYU. What in?
Dalton: Philosophy.
Doc: Any particular discipline?
Dalton: No. Not really. Man's search for faith. That sort of shit.
Doc: Come up with any answers?
Dalton: Not too many."
"Dalton: Pain don't hurt." - Road House
"There is no tomorrow!" - Apollo Creed
"Absorb what is useful. Reject what is useless. Add what is specifically your own.""Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend." - Bruce Lee
"I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day." - Camus
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." - Hunter S. Thompson
"The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think that it's real because that's how powerful our minds are... Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question - is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us. They say 'Hey! Don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride.' And we...kill those people. Ha ha ha. 'Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride. SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and family. This just has to be real.' It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter because: it's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings, and no money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourselves off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what you can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defense each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, for ever, in peace." - Bill Hicks
"Well, guess what my friend? We will all die. We will all be in a lot of pain. It's all coming our way. It's inevitable. It's part of life. But in the meantime you might as well be a fucking savage and live your life the way you want to live. And you might as well put your best effort and your best foot forward and train like a motherfucker." - Mark Bell
'"Listen," he said. "It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do." The world is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality. Although you can express reality here if you wish. You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or to tear the pages."
"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you."
"Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness, listen to it carefully."
“You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however.”
“I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. ”
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.”
“Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -- even if what is published is not true.”
“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you have a problem.”
"Everything in this book may be wrong." - Illusions, Richard Bach
THE 6 HUMAN NEEDS ARE:
1. Certainty: assurance you can avoid pain and gain pleasure
2. Uncertainty/Variety: the need for the unknown, change, new stimuli
3. Significance: feeling unique, important, special or needed
4. Connection/Love: a strong feeling of closeness or union with someone or something
5. Growth: an expansion of capacity, capability or understanding
6. Contribution: a sense of service and focus on helping, giving to and supporting others
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" - Epicurus
"I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that." - Lloyd Dobler
"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration — that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather." - Bill Hicks
"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organise a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organise it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallised; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
"With all the horrible shit that your priest is pumping into your kid's head, his dick should be the least of your worries, honestly. That's just a little mouthwash and a few years of therapy'll get rid of that. That Jesus shit will torture you for a lifetime." - Doug Stanhope
"They say if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, but if you teach a man to fish.... then he's gotta get a fishing license, but he doesn't have any money. So he's got to get a job and get into the social security system and pay taxes, and now you're gonna audit the poor cocksucker, cuz' he's not really good with math. So he'll pull the IRS van up to your house, and he'll take all your shit. He'll take your black velvet Elvis and your Batman toothbrush, and your penis pump, and that all goes up for auction with the burden of proof on you because you forgot to carry the one, cuz' you were just worried about eating a fucking fish, and you couldn't even cook the fish cuz' you needed a permit for an open flame. Then the health department is going to start asking you a lot of questions about where are you going to dump the scales and the guts. 'This is not a sanitary environment', and ladies and gentlemen if you get sick of it all at the end of the day... not even legal to kill yourself in this country. Thanks again John Ashcroft you weird bible addict, can't even handle your own drug. You were born free, you got fucked out of half of it, and you wave a flag celebrating it. The only true freedom you find, is when you realize and come to terms with the fact that you are completely and unapologetically fucked, and then you are free to float around the system." - Doug Stanhope
"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind, there are no limits..." - John Lilly
"There is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all One, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life, just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are far more than you imagine. You are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone else, too! It's all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor. Don't worry, just be happy. You are already free!"
Breathe and Relax. Here and Now. – Dan Millman
"ELIMINATE FEAR. CONQUER WORRY. AVOID ANGER. OMIT DEPRESSION. SHUN HATE. STUDY CHEERFULNESS. CULTIVATE HOPE. DEVELOP COURAGE. EXHIBIT CONFIDENCE. ASSUME SUCCESS. LIVE SIMPLY. MAINTAIN BUOYANCY. CONTROL SELF. THINK HEALTH YOURS... CULTIVATE HAPPINESS. Do all you can to make yourself and others truly happy. This will soon reflect itself in your life."
"Step by step and the thing is done." - Charles Atlas
"I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention... To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. Completely... I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me. Learning about what you're made of is always time well spent, and I have found no better teacher. The Iron had taught me how to live. Life is capable of driving you out of your mind. The way it all comes down these days, it's some kind of miracle if you're not insane. People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole... I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind. The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back. The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you're a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds." - Henry Rollins
7 Principles of HunaThe world is what you think it is.There are no limits.Energy flows where attention goes.Now is the moment of power.To love is to be happy with (someone or something).All power comes from within.Effectiveness is the measure of truth. - Serge King
You must constantly study, understand and immerse yourself in that which brings you power. Avoid all that weakens you. – James Ray
"Looked at the sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever, and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later... There is nothing else. Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us." - Rorshach
"The Veidt Method: An Introduction
UNDERSTANDING THE SELF
Both the body and the mind are parts of a biological robot that our immaterial souls inhabit. Like any machines, they can be tuned, improved and made to run more efficiently, as long as one understands the process for doing so. Through meditation and intellectual exercise, we may come to use our minds in ways that we never thought possible. In this first chapter of our manual we will discuss lateral thinking, Zen meditation and the power of dreaming and the subconscious, along with other useful techniques for the advancement of the mind and intellect. Though not a religion, there are powerful spiritual disciplines behind the Veidt Method that must be understood if the student is to proceed.
HEALTH AND THE BODYIn our second chapter, we explore the connection between body and mind, and learn how this helps us to conquer pain and illness without recourse to drugs and medicines. We will show you, step by step, a number of techniques for focusing the mind's healing power upon any ailing part of the body. In relation to this, we also examine how the actions of the body can be used to aid and focus the mind, taking into account Yogic doctrines and martial training.CREATING A NEW YOUOur third and longest chapter presents a carefully coordinated series of physical and intellectual exercise systems which, if followed correctly, can turn YOU into a superhuman, fully in charge of your own destiny. All that is required is the desire for perfection and the will to achieve it. No special equipment or other hidden cash extras are necessary. The Veidt Method paves the way for a bright and hopeful future in which anyone can be a hero.YOU AND THE WORLDJust as you are a whole organic being, complete unto yourself, so are you also a part of a larger social organism consisting of the people around you, the people you work with and ultimately the whole world. When you yourself are strong and healthy in mind and body, you will want to react in a healthy and positive way to the world around you, changing it for the better if you are able, and improving the lot of both yourself and your fellow man. Our final chapter will help you to understand the organism that is the world and your part in it. You will learn that one can either surrender responsibility for one's action to the rest of the social organism, to be pulled this way and that by society and predominating tension, or that one can take control by flexing the muscles of the will common to us all, affecting our environment positively and responsibly."- Adrian Veidt, Watchmen
Mencken's Creed'I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty...I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech...I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run.I believe in the reality of progress.I - But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.'Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority... The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure."It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty... I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom.The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.A man may be a fool and not know it — but not if he is married.God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos...Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - H.L. Mencken
What matters is compassion, kindness, taking ourselves less seriously, and waking up to the gift of life in each passing moment. - Dan Millman
"We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary." - Malcolm X
"Think for yourself and question authority. And if you can think for yourself, what do you need authority for?"
"Kate: It's like nothing I do means anything.
Angel: It doesn't.
Kate: Doesn't what?
Angel: Mean anything. In the greater scheme or the big picture, nothing we do matters. There's no grand plan, no big win.
Kate: You seem kind of chipper about that.
Angel: Well, I guess I kinda - worked it out. If there is no great glorious end to all this, if - nothing we do matters, - then all that matters is what we do... 'cause that's all there is. What we do, now, today. - I fought for so long. For redemption, for a reward - finally just to beat the other guy, but... I never got it.
Kate: And now you do?
Angel: Not all of it. All I wanna do is help. I wanna help because - I don't think people should suffer, as they do. Because, if there is no bigger meaning, then the smallest act of kindness - is the greatest thing in the world.
Kate: Yikes. It sounds like you had an epiphany.
Angel: I keep saying that. But nobody's listening."
To Change How You Feel, Change Your Physiology, Focus or Language.
To Effect Lasting Change
Raise Standards
Change Limiting Beliefs
Change Strategy
3 Decisions That Control and Determine Your Destiny
The decision about what to focus on
The decision about what things mean to you
The decision about what to do to create the results you want
“DON’T THINK. DO.”
“You don’t “find” time to do what is important. You MAKE TIME. GO.”
“Blah blah blah blah DO WORK.”
“You’re not going to find happiness. You have to make it. So get out there and make some happiness.”
“Discipline is your best friend. It will take care of you like nothing else can.”
“Do not take the easy way out. Do not give up based on instinct. Take the step. Step aggressively toward your fear.”
“If you can say the word good, guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing. And if you’re still breathing, well then hell, it means you still have some fight left in you. So get up, dust off, reload, recalibrate, re-engage, go out on the attack.”
“Discipline is the root of all good qualities.”
“The idea isn’t going to execute itself…You have to do and do it now.”
“Ego clouds and disrupts everything.”
“Step aggressively toward your fear and that step toward your fear is the step toward bravery.”
“Discipline Equals Freedom.”
“Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.”
“Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.”
“No more. No more. NO MORE. No more excuses. No more: “I’ll start tomorrow.” No more: “Just this once.” No more accepting the shortfalls of my own will. No more taking the easy road. No more bowing down to whatever unhealthy or unproductive thoughts float through my mind. No. No more. No more waiting for the perfect moment and no more indecision and no more lies. No more weakness. No. No more. Now is the time for strength. And through strength— and through will— and through unwavering discipline— I will become what I want to be. I will become who I want to be. And then—and only then—will I rest and say: No more.”
“Is this what I want to be? This? Is this all I’ve got—is this everything I can give? Is this going to be my life? Do I accept that?”
“Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished—you will likely fall short.”
“People ask me, “How do I get tougher?” BE TOUGHER. “How can I wake up early in the morning?” WAKE UP EARLY. “How can I work out consistently every day?” WORK OUT CONSISTENTLY EVERY DAY. “How can I stop eating sugar?” STOP EATING SUGAR.”
“DISCIPLINE. POWER. POSITIVITY. WILL.”
“With myself, I have to hold the line. There are areas within myself where I CANNOT compromise. I am going to work hard. I am going to train hard. I am going to improve myself. I am not going to rest on my laurels. I am going to own my mistakes and confront them. I am going to face my demons. I’m not going to give up, or give out, or give in. I’m going to stand. I am going to maintain my self-discipline. And on those points there will be No Compromise. NOT NOW. NOT EVER.”
“The only person you can control is you. So focus on making yourself who you want to be: Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.”
“You have to decide that you are going to be in control, that you are going to do what YOU want to do. Weakness doesn’t get a vote. Laziness doesn’t get a vote. Sadness doesn’t get a vote. Frustration doesn’t get a vote. NEGATIVITY doesn’t get a vote. ”
How do I handle those days when I’m just not ‘feeling it’? Those days when I am tired or worn out or just sick of the grind…What do I do on those days? I GO ANYWAY. I GET IT DONE.
Quality Conversation
Listening
Eye Contact
Don't do something else at the same time
Listen to feelings
Observe Body Language
Refuse to interrupt
Cultivate
Discipline
Power
Positivity
Will
Love
Gratitude
Curiosity
Excitement
Passion
Determination
Flexibility
Confidence
Cheerfulness
Vitality
Contribution
NLP Notes
The map is not the territory
The subjective nature of our experience never fully captures the objective world.
Behind every behavior is a positive intention
There is no failure, only feedback
Choice is better than no choice (and flexibility is the way one gets choice) - The ability to change the process by which we experience reality is more often valuable than changing the content of our experience of reality.
The meaning of your communication is the response you get
Meaning is in the eye of the recipient.
Multiple descriptions are better than one
If you always do what you've always done, you will always get what you always got
Use whatever works
How one stands, walks, moves, breathes, and holds muscle tensions, will have an impact on a person's emotional state.
Objective reality is only subjective consensus - for further information please consult your pineal gland.
"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives" - William James
"The only rules are paradox, humor and change."
Understand that there is no requirement that you play whatever game is presented to you.
What you focus on with feeling manifests.
Really want to know my secret? In one word -- and it's a word nobody likes -- discipline... I want to maintain what I am and I want to become more and the only way to achieve those goals is to do what I must -- to discipline myself.
It is a matter of religion.
Which? Buddhism? Shinto? Taoism? Zen?
None of them. It is his own - a religion he alone practices.
Oh, come on! A one man religion?
There is no other kind.
If the universe is benevolent, why is there evil? Or if the universe is evil, how can men be good? Do men have souls or are we merely bundles of biochemical reactions? Is there a god? And if there isn't, why has the idea of a god been a part of every known culture? Is religion merely mythology? Is mythology religion? Is there any essential difference between the two? If we know through our senses and our senses are imperfect, how can we know anything? But if we don't know through our senses, how do we know? And if we know through our senses, how can we know abstractions like truth and justice and even the American way? Too tough? Here's one that's closer to home -- who were my mother and father? Who am I? Who are you? Or the one those inscrutable Asians like... what was your face before your parents were born? I'm afraid of [those questions] too. At least some of them. That's why I've got to keep asking them. Or punching people. Depends on my mood.
"...quit wasting so much time on trivia. Going back to the same websites ten times a day isn't helping anything except to take the edge of your boredom. Practice more instead."
Saint Bruce, help me kick ass. Amen.
