Adam B

“In relation to therapeutic issues where we are manufacturing our own pain, the pain must be understood as a failure of creativity. The response to a certain situation has rigidified. We have lost our ability to create new responses for new situations. We do not understand how we have participated in creating our pain. We are no longer able to recognize new situations when they occur.”
― Greg Johanson, Grace Unfolding: Psychotherapy in the Spirit of Tao-te ching

“Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourself to be, is the ability and the power to do whatever you need to do to be happy and successful. Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs. Just as quickly as you can dehypnotize yourself from the ideas of “I can’t,” “I’m not worthy,” “I don’t deserve it” and other self-limiting ideas.”
― Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

“You have a choice. Live or die.
Every breath is a choice.
Every minute is a choice.
Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“The goal of monk thinking is a life free of ego, envy, lust, anxiety, anger, bitterness, baggage.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday