Quotes Tagged "conflict"

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one's reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child. Love, being dependent on the relative absence of narcissism, requires the developement of humility, objectivity and reason. I must try to see the difference between my picture of a person and his behavior, as it is narcissistically distorted, and the person's reality as it exists regardless of my interests, needs and fears.

In this story I am the poet You're the poetry.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

To live is to war with trolls.

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.

Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do.

You can observe a lot by just watching.

Commitment when confronted by conflict, produces character.

Always listen to your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

Peace is not an easy prospect--it requires greater bravery than does conflict.

Although simple, peace is a highly evolved state of consciousness. It cannot live side-by-side with the ego. We choose one or the other. Peace is the predominant quality of spiritual advancement. The unassuming quality of peace wins the day when it comes to the soul’s progression. To choose peace means that we give up the rantings and ravings, demands and hurts, wants and cravings of the personal mind. The personal self feeds off injustices, imagined injustices, complaining, conflict, excitement, drama, and all the goings-on of normal human life. At some point, when we have suffered enough or have enough wisdom, we tire of the whole thing. We sincerely prefer peace.

Without self-knowledge, the god that you seek is the god of illusion; and illusion inevitably brings conflict and sorrow.

What wills to grow, will grow. What wills to flow, will flow.