To believe that someone else is responsible for your emotional state is to give them a sort of psychic power over you they do not have...we really do generate our own feelings. No one else can do it for us. We respond and are responsible. To think other people are responsible for our feelings is to inhabit a billiard ball, inanimate universe.
John SeymourWords are anchors for sense experience, but the experience is not the reality, and the word is not the experience. Language is thus two removes from reality. To argue about the real meaning of a word is rather like arguing that one menu tastes better than another because you prefer the food that is printed on it...To come to believe that the external world is patterned by the way we talk about it is even worse than eating the menu - it is eating the printing ink on the menu. Words can be combined and manipulated in ways that have nothing to do with sensory experience.
John SeymourNo one can consistently get everything wrong. Such perfection does not exist.
John SeymourWe all have beliefs and expectations from our personal experience; it is impossible to live without them. Since we have to make some assumptions, they might as well be ones that allow us freedom, choice and fun in the world, rather than ones that limit us. You often get what you expect to get.
John SeymourWhy' questions have little value, at best they get justifications or long explanations which do nothing to change the situation.
John SeymourTrue learning involves learning other ways of doing what you can do already.
John SeymourFree your expectation of the future from the grip of past failure.
John SeymourWhat happens to our thoughts as we clothe them in language, and how faithfully are they preserved when our listeners undress them?
John SeymourWhen we believe something, we act as if it is true.
John SeymourAs long as you believe it is impossible, you will actually never find out if it is possible or not.
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