Related States & Conditions | Syntonic | Dystonic
As you think so shall you become.
Khemetic Saying
Temt Tchaas: Egyptian Proverbs , Muata Ashaya Ashby, ed.
As a man acts, so does he become. As a man's desire is, so is his destiny.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
c. 1400-c 800 BCE, Hindu Sacred Text
The Upanishads , Swami Prabhavanada & Frederick Manshester, trs., 1975
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts,
we make the world.
Buddha
c. 563-483 BCE, Indian Prince, Mystic, Founder of Buddhism
The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha , Thomas Byron, ed., 1976
When the personal life is cultivated, the family will be regulated; when the family
is regulated, the state will be in order; and when the state is in order, there will be
peace throughout the world. From the Son of Heaven down to the common people, all must
regard cultivation of the personal life as the root or foundation.
Kongfuzi
c. 551-c. 479 BCE, Chinese Philosopher, Educator
Da Xue
A man's fortune must first be changed from within.
Chinese Saying
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he becomes.
Bhagavad Gita
c. 400 BCE, Hindu Sacred Text
Everything you wish to eventually achieve, you can have right now, if you don't
refuse it to yourself. And this means taking no notice of the past, trusting the future
to providence, and living now in union with faith and justice.
Marcus Aurelius
121-180, Roman Emperor, Stoic Philosopher
The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius , Mark Forstater, tr., 2000
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
The Bible
c. 367 CE, Christian Sacred Text
Proverbs 23:7
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Jerome
345-420, Yugoslavian-Roman Prelate, Biblical Scholar, Translator, Saint
Let yourself be silently drawn by the pull of what you really love.
Rumi
1207-1273, Afghani-Turkish Sufi Mystic, Poet
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Meister Eckhart
1260-1327, German Dominican Priest, Theologian, Mystic
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper
1731-1800, English Poet, Hymn Writer
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, English Statesman, Prime Minister, Writer
You can have anything you want – if you want it badly enough. You can be
anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that
desire with singleness of purpose.
Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, 16th US President
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies
within us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Physician, Poet, Writer
No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart
that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what
he has.
Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.
William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Philosopher
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: it is not a thing to be
waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
1860-1925, American Lawyer
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
Grandma Moses
1860-1961, American Painter
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain types of ideas and setting
others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
Alfred North Whitehead
1861-1947, English Mathematician, Philosopher
Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead , 1954
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in
the greatest ; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the
more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainier Maria Rilke
1875-1926, Czech-Austrian Poet
Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke 1892-1910
Most of us achieve only at rare moments a clear realization of the fact that they
have never tasted the fulfilment of existence, that their life does not participate in
true fulfilled existence, that, as it were, it passes true existence by. We nevertheless
feel the deficiency at every moment, and in some measure strive to find – somewhere
– what we are seeking. Somewhere, in some province of the world or of the mind,
except where we stand, where we have been set – but it is there and nowhere else
that the treasure can be found � it is here, where we stand, that we should try to make
shine the light of the hidden divine life.
Martin Buber
1878-1965, Israeli Theologian
The Way of Man , 1966
Your world is as big as you make it.
Georgia Douglas Johnson
1886-1967, African-American Musician, Composer, Poet
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider.
If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
Phyllis Bottome
1884-1963, British Writer
You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go.
Nikos Kazantzakis
1885-1957, Greek Writer
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that
something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
1886-1967, American Advertising Executive, Writer
Where I was born and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with
where I have been that should be of interest.
Georgia O'Keefe
1887-1986, American Painter
Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think
about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.
Jean Toomer
1894-1967, African-American Writer
Essentials: Definitions and Aphorisms , 1931
It is not your environment, it is you – the quality of your minds, the
integrity of your souls and the determination of your will that will decide your future
and shape your lives.
Benjamin Mays
1895-1984, African-American Educator
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896-1940, American Writer
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up
his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Norman Vincent Peale
1898-1993, American Cleric, Writer
We become what we do.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
1898-, Chinese Reformer, Educator, Sociologist
The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so
deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy – man's tendency to actualize
himself, to become his potentialties . By this I mean the directional trend which
is evident in all organic and human life – the urge to expand, extend, develop,
mature – the tendency to express and activate all the capacities of the organism,
or the self.
Carl Rogers
1902-1987, American Psychotherapist
On Becoming a Person
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you never knew there
were going to be doors.
Joseph Campbell
1904-1987, American Mythologist, Writer
in Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers, The Power of Myth , 1988
We have the ability to shape, change, accept or reject anything we want. Open our
minds to positive thought and faith, and prosperity can become a reality for each of us.
Johnnie Coleman
1921-, African-American Cleric
If you can take care of the internal, you can easily take care of the external. Then
you can avoid the infernal and latch on to the eternal.
Joseph Lowery
1924-, African-American Civil Rights Activist
You are given the gifts of the gods; you create your reality according to your
beliefs. Yours is the creative energy that makes your world. There are no limitations
to the self except those you believe in.
Jane Roberts
1929-1984, American Writer, Channel
The Nature of Personal Reality , 1974
Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you can imagine.
James Earl Jones
1931-, African-American Actor
Voices and Silences , 1993
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and
discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Zig Ziglar
1933-, American Writer, Motivational Speaker
The effects of observation "couple" or enter into the real world whether we want
them to or not. The choices made by an observer alter, in an unpredictable manner, the
real physical events. Consciousness is deeply and inextricably involved in this picture,
not a byproduct of materiality.
Fred Alan Wolf
1934-, American Physicist, Writer
The Body Quantum: The New Physics of Body, Mind, and Health , 1986
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with
your life that counts.
Millard Fuller
1935-, American Lawyer
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Richard Bach
1936-, American Writer
You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
David Viscott
1938-1996, American Psychiatrist, Writer
I have come to discover through earnest personal experience and dedicated learning
that ultimately the greatest help is self-help; that there is no other help but self-help
– doing one's best, dedicating oneself wholeheartedly to a given task, which happens
to have no end but is an on-going process.
Bruce Lee
1940-1973, Chinese/American Martial Artist, Actor, Writer
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside
them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But
the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali
1942-, African-American Boxer
Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no
control.
Wess Roberts
1946-, American Writer
We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe in most
strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly!
Shakti Gawain
1948-, American Therapist, Writer
If you come to a thing with no preconceived notions of what that thing is, the whole
world can be your canvas. Just dream it, and you can make it so. I believe I belong to
wherever I want to be, in whatever situation or context I place myself.
Whoopi Goldberg
1955-, African-American Actress, Comedian
I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything
and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to
turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to
wake up and claim our birthright.
Anthony Robbins
1960-, American Writer, Motivational Speaker
There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions; you must first
change inner beliefs then outer conditions will change accordingly.
Brian Adams
How to Succeed , 1985
We have no say over the hand dealt us in life, but we do have a lot of control over
how this hand is played. We are responsible for bringing out the meaning of our own lives
in each moment that we live. Remember each moment happens only once and can never be
retrieved again.
- Roberta Andersen
You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your
ability to accept this truth about you.
- Robert Anthony
There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a
burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it
takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your
mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.
- Jan Ashford
If you know you want it, have it.
Gita Bellin
Australian Teacher
A Sharing of Completion And Celebration , 1983
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.
- Claude M. Bristol
The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire
to make it work; then the faith and belief that it can work; then to hold that clear
definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one
thought of doubt or disbelief.
Eileen Caddy
British Mystic, Co-Founder of Findhorn Community
Footprints on the Path , 1976
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more
things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will
be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you
really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Margaret Young
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This cross-index may help identify and delineate more closely
subjective realities often hard to pin down.
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| Related States & Conditions | Art | Autonomy/Control | Being/Essence/Soul | Centering | Creativity/Discovery/Innovation | Death/Dying | Dreams/Dreaming, Expression, Goal/Purpose, Growth/Expansion, Happiness/Contentment, Identity, Individuality, Integrity, Liberation/Liberty/Freedom, Life/Living, Love-Agape, Manifestation, Meaning, Possibility/Potential, Power, Presence, Renewal, Responsibility, Self-Reliance, Success, Solution, Value/Worth, Wealth/Prosperity, Work |
| Syntonic | Affirmation/Approval | Breakthrough/Epiphany/Turning Point | Commitment/Dedication | Confidence | Congruence/Resonance | Conviction | Courage | Daring/Challenge | Decision/Decisiveness | Determination/Persistence/Resolve | Diligence | Discipline | Engagement/Integration/Involvement, Exploration, Faith, Focus/Intention, Forgiveness, Giving/Serving, Health/Healing, Imagination, Initiative, Introspection/Self-Knowledge, Learning, Listening, Meditation, Optimism/Positivism, Passion, Practice, Preparation/Readiness, Release, Transformation, Trust, Understanding, Vision/Visualization, Wisdom, Zeal/Zest |
| Dystonic | Anger | Avoidance/Denial/Refusal | Comparison/Competition | Complacency | Conformity | Criticism/Judgment | Defeat | Deferment/Delay | Delusion | Dependence | Depression/Despair/Despondency | Distraction/Diversion, Failure/Error, Fear, Greed, Guilt, Hate, Inaction, Insecurity/Risk, Jealousy/Envy, Laziness, Limitation, Loneliness, Regret, Worry |
Wisdom for The Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing, © 2004