
“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
"Integrity and Mr. Rifkin", p. 238
An Urchin in the Storm (1987)
“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.”
Source: God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer
“There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.”
Preface
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
Context: There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. If the mischief stopped at talking and thinking it would be bad enough; but it goes further, into disastrous anarchical action. Because our marriage law is inhuman and unreasonable to the point of downright abomination, the bolder and more rebellious spirits form illicit unions, defiantly sending cards round to their friends announcing what they have done. Young women come to me and ask me whether I think they ought to consent to marry the man they have decided to live with; and they are perplexed and astonished when I, who am supposed (heaven knows why!) to have the most advanced views attainable on the subject, urge them on no account to compromise themselves without the security of an authentic wedding ring.
“The battle, if you could call it that, lasted no more than a few seconds.”
Source: The Icebound Land
“Choosing what we think rather than reacting to our emotions.”
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
"The Politics of Nuclear Disarmament" (1980), in Resources of Hope (1989).
Source: 1890s, The Mountains of California (1894), chapter 5: The Passes <!-- Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 328 -->
Context: Accidents in the mountains are less common than in the lowlands, and these mountain mansions are decent, delightful, even divine, places to die in, compared with the doleful chambers of civilization. Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain-passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action. Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.