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[aspiritualwarrior]

“The difference between suffering and liberation is the difference between being the thinker of thoughts and being the awareness of thinking.”

— Jeff Foster

[aspiritualwarrior]

“So then, when you’re in the way of waking up and finding out who you really are, what you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call here and now. You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around: the real, deep down you is the whole universe.”

— Alan Watts

[aspiritualwarrior]

“Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you’re flexible, when you’re spontaneous, when you’re detached, when you’re easy on yourself and easy on others.”

— Deepak Chopra

[aspiritualwarrior]

“Be as simple as you can be: you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

[vajrakali]

“Whatever teachings one takes, it is very important to meditate on them. This will enable one to develop great qualities in Dharma. Without meditation, no matter how much teaching one hears, no matter how much teaching one writes down, no matter how much teaching one records on tape, one will never be able to develop the qualities of Dharma.”

- Thinley Norbu Rinpoche

[aspiritualwarrior]

“Know yourself as nothing. Feel yourself as everything.”

— Alan Watts

[russianfolklore]

Russian caricature of the German Emperor Wilhelm II. 

The text reads: “Cat Vas’ka from Prussia is the enemy of Russia.”

The caricature was made in lubok style.

A lubok (plural lubki, Russian: лубо́к) is a Russian popular print, characterized by simple graphics and narratives derived from literature, religious stories, and popular tales. Early examples from the late 17th and early 18th centuries were woodcuts, then engravings or etchings were typical, and from the mid-19th century lithography. They sometimes appeared in series, which might be regarded as predecessors of the modern comic strip. Cheap and simple books, similar to chapbooks, which mostly consisted of pictures, are called lubok literature. Both pictures and literature are commonly referred to simply as lubki. The Russian word lubok derives from lub - a special type of board on which pictures were printed.

[russianfolklore]

“Skarapeya” by Boris Zabirohin.

Skarapeya (Russian: cкарапея) is a magical snake who reigns over the other snakes. If a mortal will eat skarapeya then he’ll get an ability to understand animals, birds and herbs.

The snake knows whereabouts of buried treasures, but always protects them. Also it can open locks, cure and spread diseases, protects from magic.

[alrauna]

N. Bukanova

“Myths and Legends of Ancient Slavs’, 2007

[alrauna]

Natalia Alexandrova

[allyouneediswall]

[thedailyzen]

Balance reigns supreme. Every action has a reaction. Every event has a consequence.

You cannot will an idea without simultaneously creating its opposite. All dualities, like “good” or “evil” are defined by each other in perfect harmony.

[thedailyzen]

Part of being present means taking the present with a grain of salt. What seems important now will not necessarily seem important later. What seems trivial now may become less so as time goes on.

[aspiritualwarrior]

“When you think about the mind, when you’re thinking about the thoughts then you’re giving it energy. When you just observe and just watch and leave it alone and do nothing where does the energy come from? There is no energy to give it. So you ignore the mind by observing it Then you will find out that there is no mind. You’ve been wasting your time for years observing something that doesn’t exist. So why would you want to do that? All this talk about observing minds, watching minds. The truth is there is nothing to watch, there is nothing to observe. I’m just sitting here telling you these things because you want to hear me talk. But there is nothing to do. There is nothing to observe, there is nothing to watch. Who watches, who observes? The one who believes they are a body, a doer. When you get rid of the misconceptions you’re a doer or a watcher you’ll have nothing to watch and nothing to do. But as long as you believe that you are the doer then you will think of all kinds of practices that you want to do. You’ll practice yoga meditation, japa, mantra, pranayama. You do all of these things because you think you are the doer. But when the realisation comes to you that you’re not the doer then you do not have to do anything, there is nothing to do. So know the truth about yourself. I am not the doer therefore I have absolutely nothing to do. I’m at peace with myself and the whole universe and all is well. You see my friends nothing really exists. You don’t exist, I don’t exist nothing really exists. Everything is an illusion. Everything is an appearance. It appears to exist but it doesn’t exist. Everything that you see is hallucination. You’ve been hallucinating for years. It’s time you stop.”

— Robert Adams

[buddhaprayerbeads]

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[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Errors in Thinking that Create Anxiety

1. All-or-nothing thinking: Looking at things in black-or-white categories, with no middle ground (“If I fall short of perfection, I’m a total failure.”)

2. Overgeneralization: Generalizing from a single negative experience, expecting it to hold true forever (“I didn’t get hired for the job. I’ll never get any job.”)

3. The mental filter: Focusing on the negatives while filtering out all the positives. Noticing the one thing that went wrong, rather than all the things that went right.

4. Diminishing the positive: Coming up with reasons why positive events don’t count (“I did well on the presentation, but that was just dumb luck.”)

5. Jumping to conclusions: Making negative interpretations without actual evidence. You act like a mind reader (“I can tell she secretly hates me.”) or a fortune teller (“I just know something terrible is going to happen.”)

6. Catastrophizing: Expecting the worst-case scenario to happen (“The pilot said we’re in for some turbulence. The plane’s going to crash!”)

7. Emotional reasoning: Believing that the way you feel reflects reality (“I feel frightened right now. That must mean I’m in real physical danger.”)

8. ‘Shoulds’ and ‘should-nots’: Holding yourself to a strict list of what you should and shouldn’t do and beating yourself up if you break any of the rule

9. Labeling: Labeling yourself based on mistakes and perceived shortcomings (“I’m a failure; an idiot; a loser.”)

10. Personalization: Assuming responsibility for things that are outside your control (“It’s my fault my son got in an accident. I should have warned him to drive carefully in the rain.”)

Source: http://www.helpguide.org/mental/anxiety_self_help.htm

[shisasan]

“Becoming more aware of the present moment and accept it as it is slows down the overactive mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle