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Negative thinking hinders others from making a positive response.
Resenting the sun will not diminish its light.
Golf giveth and golf taketh away. But it taketh away a hell of a lot more than it giveth.
Let nothing dim the light that shines from within
Darkness shields as much as it threatens.
Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.
Attention energizes, and intention transforms. Whatever you put your attention on will grow stronger in your life. Whatever you take your attention away from will wither, disintegrate, and disappear.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.
The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
What you keep before your eyes will affect you.
Evil is whatever distracts.
Questions draw us together. Answers push us apart.
Weakness is emanating from the crowd
When we allow IRRELEVANCE to clog our minds...we are taking energy away from the RELEVANT!
To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.
There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.
The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.
There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
You empower what you fight.
You withdraw power from what you release.
Pull in Positivity and Put out Negativity
For success, focus has utmost importance, but distraction is disastrous.
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.
We ourselves are the substance we withdraw to, not from, as we pull our overextended and misplaced creative energy back into our own core.
Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.
Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.
We withdraw not to disappear, but to find another ground from which to see; a solid ground from which to step, and from which to speak again, in a different way, a clear, rested, embodied voice we begin to remember again as our own.
Acclaim is a distraction.
Distractions and detours dig our grave.
However, attention can be moved away from an unwanted focus, primarily by focusing intently on another target.
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
Obstacles come to instruct, not obstruct.
The happy result of detachment is inner freedom, freedom from worry about bodily comfort, honor, and wealth. Considering
Whatever you focus on expands,
Attachment to praise and avoidance of criticism keeps us from doing innovative, controversial work and--more simply--from following the paths we feel called toward, whether or not those around s understand or approve.
So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.
Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.
The distance between you and me disappears with us.
We diminish people when we don't allow them to help us, or when we act like we don't need anything from them and they have nothing to offer us. We also diminish them when we allow them to go on and on, even after we've exceeded our capacity to pay attention.
Strikes, eases, dies, leaves a temporary silence.
What you focus on expands.
You leave a trail of bodies with your glares.
Reflect, reflect.
Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.
Increase is a crowd puller
What you do not eliminate - you accumulate.
Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.
To shine is better than to reflect.
When you think about something, you separate yourself from it.
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The boon that could be given can be withdrawn.
What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.
Outward success alienates a man from himself.
It creates a secret you're too beautiful to keep
Light chases away darkness.
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget...
Indeed the presence of outstanding strengths presupposes that energy needed in other areas has been channeled away from them.
Illuminate the opposition.
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
The more you absorb, the more you can exude.
A negative attitude drains, a positive attitude energizes.
Detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.
Carrying envy makes life more difficult.
Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.
too much detail can have a distancing effect
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.
Everything you do either adds to the beauty of the world or takes away from it.
The outer affects the inner.
That which serves our spirits enhances our bodies. That which diminishes our spirits diminishes our bodies.
When you shine bright, some won't enjoy the shadow you cast.
We pursue that which retreats from us.
Separate and together cease to be mutually exclusive and instead become, in psychoanalyst Christopher Bolla's phrase, reciprocally enhancing and mutually informative.
Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .
Be helpful to some - and harmful to none.
They broaden our outlook ... set us to looking inward ...
This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
They're distracting because they remind us of the world beyond the immediate conversation,
Energy wasted on negative ends.
To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
devotion needs distance,
Increase definitely attracts
I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.
Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
Sometimes you take all my words away from me.
I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.
Even the slightest criticism of others is an impediment (hindrance) to Absolute Knowledge (Kevalgnan, Absolute Enlightenment). It also hinders Atmagnan (Knowledge of the Self), also hinders Samkit (Self-realization).
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Discouraging words should not weigh you down instead they should challenge you
A compliment withheld is like meat stored away for later; it sours before you get any use out of it,
Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.
The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
You empower everything you complain about. You strengthen the negative things you speak of. And you energize the problems you vocalize.