“Peace is a conscious choice.”
“Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death.”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
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Russian-American novelist and philosopher 1905–1982Related quotes
“Healing requires conscious choices”
As quoted in "Caroline Myss' Journey" by Terry Loncaric, at Conscious Choice (September 2003)
Context: Healing requires conscious choices… Very few alcoholics want to give up liquor. Obese people don’t want to give up food. Diabetics don’t want to give up sugar. People in toxic relationships don’t want to leave because that’s what they know. It’s change. People are afraid of change.
“Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.”
Source: Fool's Errand
“He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.”
Holy Living (1650), ch. 1, section 1
Source: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't