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If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience. If this sounds too mystical, refer again to the body. Every significant vital sign- body temperature, heart rate, oxygen consumption, hormone level, brain activity, and so on- alters the moment you decide to do anything… decisions are signals telling your body, mind, and environment to move in a certain direction. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#mind-body-connection #spirituality #experience

There are certain children who are told they are too sensitive, and there are certain adults who believe sensitivity is a problem that can be fixed in the way that crooked teeth can be fixed and made straight. And when these two come together you get a fairytale, a kind of story with hopelessness in it. I believe there is something in these old stories that does what singing does to words. They have transformational capabilities, in the way melody can transform mood. They can't transform your actual situation, but they can transform your experience of it. We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#sensitive #experience

If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#hero #humanity #inspirational #life #motivational

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#literature #experience

Doing something positive will help turn your mood around. When you smile, your body relaxes. When you experience human touch and interaction, it eases tension in your body. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#relaxation #experience

I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either. ↗

— Donald Miller

#love #unrequited-love #experience

A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#gratitude #happiness #inspirational #letting-go #life

I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book. ↗

— Erica Jong

#navelgazing #writing #experience

Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#love #religion #experience

When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#jesus #love #experience