Your own thinking comes back at you

 

The world in which we live and work,
is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
- Earl Nightingale

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie

A person experiences life as
something separated from the rest -
a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
Our task must be to free ourselves
from this self-imposed prison,
and through compassion,
to find the reality of Oneness.
- Albert Einstein

Life is for each of us
a solitary cell
whose walls are mirrors.
- Eugene O'Neill (paraphrase)

Once we are destined to live out our lives
in the prison of our mind,
our duty is to furnish it well.
- Peter Ustinov

Further reading: Are You a Prisoner?

Life is a Mirror

s Being a Reflection

How We See Things
    

Prisoner of Our Own Mind

The world in which we live and work,
is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
- Earl Nightingale

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie

A person experiences life as
something separated from the rest -
a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
Our task must be to free ourselves
from this self-imposed prison,
and through compassion,
to find the reality of Oneness.
- Albert Einstein

Life is for each of us
a solitary cell
whose walls are mirrors.
- Eugene O'Neill (paraphrase)

Once we are destined to live out our lives
in the prison of our mind,
our duty is to furnish it well.
- Peter Ustinov

Further reading: Are You a Prisoner?

Life is a Mirror

Being a Reflection

How We See Things
    

Prison of Our Mind

 

The world in which we live and work,
is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
- Earl Nightingale

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie

A person experiences life as
something separated from the rest -
a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
Our task must be to free ourselves
from this self-imposed prison,
and through compassion,
to find the reality of Oneness.
- Albert Einstein

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
- Eugene O'Neill

Once we are destined to live out our lives
in the prison of our mind,
our duty is to furnish it well.
- Peter Ustinov

Further reading: Are You a Prisoner?

Life is a Mirror

Being a Reflection

How We See Things
    

Our Attitudes and Expectations

 

The world in which we live and work,
is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
- Earl Nightingale

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie

A person experiences life as
something separated from the rest -
a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
Our task must be to free ourselves
from this self-imposed prison,
and through compassion,
to find the reality of Oneness.
- Albert Einstein

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
- Eugene O'Neill

Once we are destined to live out our lives
in the prison of our mind,
our duty is to furnish it well.
- Peter Ustinov

Further reading: Are You a Prisoner?

Life is a Mirror

Being a Reflection

How We See Things
    

A Mirror of Our Attitudes and Expectations

The world in which we live and work,
is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
- Earl Nightingale

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie

A person experiences life as
something separated from the rest -
a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
Our task must be to free ourselves
from this self-imposed prison,
and through compassion,
to find the reality of Oneness.
- Albert Einstein

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
- Eugene O'Neill

Once we are destined to live out our lives
in the prison of our mind,
our duty is to furnish it well.
- Peter Ustinov

Further reading: Are You a Prisoner?

Life is a Mirror

Being a Reflection

How We See Things
    

Self-Inflicted Prison

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free
and realizing you were the prisoner!
- Max Lucado

A man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
- George Savile

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
- Sol LeWitt

The worst prison would be a closed heart.
- Pope John Paul II

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
- Ben Jonson

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create.
You're jailed up inside of yourself.
- Edie Brickell

Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Prisoner of Habit

Fly Free

Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
     

Think For Yourself

Let today be a day to take life less seriously.
Take the weight of the world off your shoulders.
Choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
- Rita Mae Brown

If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson

Further reading: A Foolish Consistency

How to Deal with Rejection

Being Your Own Person

Thinking for Yourself
    

Reject Mindless Conformity

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
- Rita Mae Brown

Let today be a day to take life less seriously.
Take the weight of the world off your shoulders.
Choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Thinking for Yourself

A Foolish Consistency

My Own Person

How to Deal with Rejection
    

Break the Prison of Habit

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
- Mike Murdock

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living,
new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
- Henry Van Dyke

Most of us are prisoners of habit, and don't even notice that we do the same things, think the same things, want the same things each day - mostly without conscious thought.

Today, examine your beliefs, your actions, your wants, to determine whether they still represent your highest purpose.

Further reading: Life Choices

How to Break Your Bad Habit

Discipline

Habits - Like Water to a Fish

Getting Better
     

Prison of a Closed Heart

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free
and realizing you were the prisoner!
- Max Lucado

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
- Sol LeWitt

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
- Ben Jonson

A man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
- George Savile

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create.
You're jailed up inside of yourself.
- Edie Brickell

The worst prison would be a closed heart.
- Pope John Paul II

Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Fly Free

Prisoner of Habit

Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
     

Solitary Cell

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
- Eugene O'Neill

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie

The world in which we live and work,
is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
- Earl Nightingale

A person experiences life as
something separated from the rest -
a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
Our task must be to free ourselves
from this self-imposed prison,
and through compassion,
to find the reality of Oneness.
- Albert Einstein

Once we are destined to live out our lives
in the prison of our mind,
our duty is to furnish it well.
- Peter Ustinov

Further reading: Are You a Prisoner?

Being a Reflection

Life is a Mirror

How We See Things
    

Prison of the Closed Heart

The worst prison would be a closed heart.
- Pope John Paul II

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free
and realizing you were the prisoner!
- Max Lucado

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create.
You're jailed up inside of yourself.
- Edie Brickell

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
- Ben Jonson

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
- Sol LeWitt

A man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
- George Savile

Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Prisoner of Habit

Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

Fly Free
 

Presidents' Day 2016

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln (16th United States President)

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy (35th President of the United States)

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd President of the United States)

We hold these truths to be self-evident:
that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights,
among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson (third President of the United States)
[Declaration of Independence, and inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial]

Further reading: Being a Leader

Don't Borrow Trouble

Difference of Opinion

Killing Each Other's Children
    

Choice, Not Obligation

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation.
Live wild, life free, live as master of your own fate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be of service because you CHOOSE to be,
never because of a feeling of obligation.

Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus

To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Choose the whole of your environment, things and events,
based upon the value, meaning and function they hold.
Do not allow obligation or immediacy
to bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Social Obligations (in contrast to legal or moral obligations)

Your To-Do List

Expectations are Demands

Gifts freely given are never obligations

Question Every Assumption and Expectation

 

Are You a Prisoner?

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free
and realizing you were the prisoner!
- Max Lucado

The worst prison would be a closed heart.
- Pope John Paul II

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create.
You're jailed up inside of yourself.
- Edie Brickell

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
- George Savile

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
- Ben Jonson

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
- Sol LeWitt

Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading:  Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

Prisoner of Habit

Fly Free

Prisoner

Jailer

Obligation

Forgiveness

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation.
Live wild, life free, live as master of your own fate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie