introspection

Now, it__ undeniably true that male writers (including yours truly) are generally and commercially allowed to write about __irl stuff_ without being penalized for doing so. In part this is the same old shit it__ always been ... I__e said before that men who write mostly about men win prizes for revealing the human condition, while women who write about both men and women are filed away as writing __omens_ issues._ Likewise, in fantasy, the imprimatur of a dude somehow makes stuff like romance, relationship drama, introspection, and adorable animal companions magically not girly after all.In a sense, we male fantasists are allowed to be like money launderers for girl coo

I found myself thinking that perhaps there was something inexorable about the way events unfolded, as if my life--which had begun to seem something not my own but rather something into which I found myself blindly toppling--was indeed something living, that existed without my knowledge but that pulled me along in its strong, insistent undertow.

A positive attitude is most easily arrived at through a deliberate and rational analysis of what__ required to manifest unwavering positive thought patterns. First, reflect on the actual, present condition of your mind. In other words, is the mind positive or not? We__e all met individuals who perceive themselves as positive people but don__ appear as such. Since the mind is both invisible and intangible, it__ therefore easier to see the accurate characteristics of the mind through a person__ words, deeds, and posture.For example, if we say, __t__ absolutely freezing today! I__l probably catch a cold before the end of the day!_ then our words expose a negative attitude. But if we say, __he temperature is very cold_ (a simple statement of fact), then our expressions, and therefore attitude, are not negative. Sustaining an alert state in which self-awareness becomes possible gives us a chance to discover the origins of negativity. In doing so, we also have an opportunity to arrive at a state of positiveness, so that our words and deeds are also positive, making others feel comfortable, cheerful, and inspired.

Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else.

Who am I to judge me?

Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!

What if deep down inside you...you knew you were more amazing and magnificent than you thought you were?

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.

I mean No is power. No says, "I'm in charge." Think about how many times you've said yes in the past year, and how many times you would've liked to have said no instead. Maybe being able to say no is the one thing that keeps us sane. Some people go through their whole lives saying yes over and over again--yes to things they don't want to do but feel obliged to; yes to things that allow other people to take advantage of them, just because that's the way things are, the way things have always been. Some people need to learn how to say no. Because every time they say yes, they say no to themselves.

There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.

No one has direct access to your mind like you do. That's why introspection remains a valid technique even after the invention of brain scanners.

The mind is a miraculous mirror through which we see the world, but it can also see from within.

A marijuana high can enhance core human mental abilities. It can help you to focus, to remember, to see new patterns, to imagine, to be creative, to introspect, to empathically understand others, and to come to deep insights. If you don__ find this amazing you have lost your sense of wonder. Which, by the way, is something a high can bring back, too.

How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?

When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all__ecause all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.

When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in this life and it is the only thing we take with us to the grave__nowledge. If you only understood that concept then your heart wouldn__ break so bad. Jealousy or revenge wouldn__ be your ambition. Stepping on others to raise yourself up wouldn__ be a goal. Competition would be left on the playing field, and your freedom from what other people think about you would light the pathway out of hell.

How can you follow your heart, unless you know why you have allowed it to be empty for so long and didn't have the courage to fix it?

The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?