Frank's quotes

Self-absorbed?

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.


— John Ruskin


Ours is a program of action. Action, not talk!

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.


— Confucius


The philosophy of Viktor Frankl

Life does not owe you happiness, it offers you meaning.


— Dr. Viktor Frankl, a psychiatrist involved in suicide prevention, became a prisoner in Auschwitz and other WWII German concentration camps. His book "Man's Search For Meaning" sowed the seeds of what became "Logotherapy", a forward-looking psychotherapy.


Fear drives us to become what we are not.


We pretend to be what we are not because we are afraid of being rejected.
The fear of being rejected becomes the fear of not being good enough.
Eventually we become someone that we are not.
We become a copy of Mamma's beliefs, Daddy's beliefs, society's beliefs, and religion's beliefs.


— Don Miguel Ruiz, M.D. a surgeon of Toltec ancestry, on p. 8 of The Four Agreements, ISBN 1 878424 31 9


Living is easy... John Lennon

Living is easy with eyes closed,
misunderstanding all you see...



John Lennon


Knowledge vs Wisdom


Seek wisdom, not knowledge.
Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.


A proverb of the Lumbee tribe.


Yesterday and today

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."



a Cherokee proverb


On fear, that evil and corroding thread...

Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to the Dark Side.


— Yoda, the Jedi master in Star Wars


If they don't get it yet, just remember...

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.


— Angela Monet


Knowledge

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.


— Copernicus


The present moment is all you ever have.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.



Eckhart Tolle author of "The Power of Now"


We are not alone


"We do not walk alone. Great Being walks beside us. Know this and be grateful."


Polingaysi Q“yawayma, HOPI

Mesa-top Pueblo people of northeast Arizona, the Hopi are noted for their rich ceremonial life and craftsmanship in basketry, pottery, silverwork & weaving.


Devil?

"We create that bad among ourselves. We create it; then we try to call it devil, Satan, or evil. But man creates it. There is no devil. Man creates the devil."



Wallace Black Elk, LAKOTA


Denial and Delusions - who has which?

Alcoholics don't have denial; Al-Anons do - they pretend the pink elephant is not in the room.

Alcoholics have delusions - they BELIEVE that they won't get burned when they touch the hot stove again. They'd pass a lie detector test because they really believe that "this time...."



Dave F. @ Fellowship of the Spirit West


Live...

Cherish yesterday...
dream tomorrow...
live today.



Richard Bach in Jonathan Livingston Seagull


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