Category Archives: Jewels of the Path

Quotes by Eric Micha’el Leventhal

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If you want to see, then begin to see how you see.

The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become.

Judge not, lest ye miss out on all the fun.

Though we may choose to view them symbolically, dreams are actually no more or less symbolic than everyday waking reality.  When the images and events don’t conform to our view of reality, we call them symbols.  When they do, we call them facts.

To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived.

Change happens for you the moment you want something more than you fear it.

You are here on earth to unearth who on earth you are.

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.

In Order to Go, You Have to Leave

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The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not.  It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening.  The finding of God is a coming to one’s self.  Aldous Huxley

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.  Brian Tracy

A negative mind will never give you a positive life.  Ziad K. Abdelnour

The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd.  The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before.   Albert Einstein

In order to go, you have to leave.  Grey’s Anatomy, Season 11

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder.  You always have the choice.  The Dalai Lama

Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situations that threaten your peace of mind, self-respect, values, morals and self-worth.  Tiny Buddha

Plural Realities

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Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn’t we really be talking about plural realities?  And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others?  What about the world of a schizophrenic?  Maybe it’s as real as our world.  Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can’t explain his to us, and we can’t explain ours to him.  The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication . . . and there is the real illness.   Philip K. Dick

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion.  Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

All problems are illusions of the mind.   Eckhart Tolle

You’re a dream.  Like everything else.  Kelly Creagh

How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by misunderstandings?  How many opportunities have you been denied – or, for that matter, awarded – because someone failed to see you properly?  How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce?  An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.   Kevin Brockmeier

There is an old illusion.  It is called good and evil.  Friedrich Nietzsche

True Nature or Preconceived Notion

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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony.  This is what furthers and what perseveres.   Alexander Pope

True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness.  The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are.  Ultimately, it’s our own true nature.   Tara Brach

The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.  Paramahansa Yogananda

The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith, and right conduct.  The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.  Virchand Gandhi

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.  Mary Browne

A lot of preconceived notions that I had about fame and status and money and joy and pain, and all of these things that I thought I knew, I didn’t.  Alanis Morissette

Center Your Attention

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Interest. Here is the key to the whole thing.  If and when you are truly interested in what you are doing, or are about to do, then you will center your attention on it with little or no effort, and almost irrespective of the attendant conditions.   Ralph Alfred Habas

People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.   Criss Jami

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline . . . because you need to be alone to find out anything.  Vivienne Westwood

The saints, too, had wandering minds.  The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home.  They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd.   Peter Kreeft

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.  Hilaire Belloc

Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness.  Every pursuit of external power – every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe – is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.   Gary Zukav

Refusing to See Reality

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There are two ways to be fooled.  One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.  Søren Kierkegaard

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos.  That is the way we all see . . . each other in life.  Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.  Tennessee Williams

Why did we become blind, I don’t know.  Perhaps one day we’ll find out.  Do you want me to tell you what I think?  I don’t think we did go blind.  I think we are blind.  Blind but seeing.  Blind people who can see, but do not see.   José Saramago

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one’s own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.  Sheri S. Tepper

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.  J.R.R. Tolkien

It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.  Robert Fanney

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.   Nikos Kazantzakis

Live the Life You Love

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Almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.  Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking that you have something to lose.  You are already naked.  There is no reason not to follow your heart.   Steve Jobs.

What I know is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.   Oprah Winfrey

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.  Maya Angelou

Love what you do and do what you love.  Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it.  You do what you want, what you love.  Imagination should be the center of your life.   Ray Bradbury

Love the life you live.  Live the life you love.  Bob Marley

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones that you did do.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore.  Dream.  Discover.  Mark Twain

Change, Practice, Flow

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No more will you fear conditions or circumstances seemingly outside of you or beyond your control.  Now you know that all that can transpire in your experience is occurring within your consciousness and, therefore, is subject to its government and control.  Joel Goldsmith

Meanwhile, if anyone did dare to ask, the answer would be: I considered giving up.  I thought God was no longer listening to me.  I often had to change direction and, on occasion, I lost my way.  Despite everything, though, I found it again and carried on, because I was convinced there was no other way to live my life.   Paulo Coelho

At certain moments you need to have discipline, and in others you need to just be guided by life.  You have to balance your willpower with the capacity to relax and enjoy and go with the flow.  There is a Zen proverb that says, basically, if you want something, step aside and let this thing come to you.   Paulo Coelho

Tomorrow, and only tomorrow, will I take another step. . .  Until one day, without warning, the road stops testing the traveler and begins to treat him generously.  Paulo Coelho

Just as an acrobat flies easily through the air with no apparent effort, success, when it comes, seems the most natural thing in the world.  Paulo Coelho

It’s a funny thing.  The more I practice, the luckier I get.  Arnold Palmer

Do Your Thing

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Find something you enjoy doing so much that you’d be willing to do it for nothing . . . and you’ll never work a day in your life.  Ronald G. Wayne

Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.  Tina Fey

There is no passion to be found in playing small and in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.   Nelson Mandela

It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires.  It must abandon itself to its master passion.   Rebecca West

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.  Diane Sawyer

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.  Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars and to change the world.  Harriet Tubman

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right.  If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.   Steve Jobs

Chase your passion, not your pension.   Denis Waitley

Living This Life

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We believe in the eternality, the immortality, and the continuity of the individual soul, forever and ever expanding.  Ernest Holmes

In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.   Robert Frost

From where we stand, the rain seems random.  If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.  Tony Hillerman

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.  Isaac Asimov

Our own life has to be our message.  Thich Nhat Hanh

I knew everything happened for a reason.  I just wished the reason would hurry up and make itself know.  Christina Lauren

Very little is needed to make a happy life.  It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.  Marcus Aurelius

We’re all going to die.  We don’t get much say over how or when.  But we do get to decide how we’re going to live.  So do it.  Decide.  Is this the life you want to live?  Is this the person you want to love?  Is this the best you can be?  Can you be stronger?  Kinder?  More compassionate?  Decide.  Breathe in.  Breathe out.  And decide.  Dr. Richard Webber, Grey’s Anatomy, Season 10