superperformance to go: July 2007

SUPERPERFORMANCE TO GO: A SIMPLE TOOLSET

TRANSFORMATION

Superperformance is available to all, but it requires transformation to a new state. This is the same kind of comprehensive change that occurs when water turns to ice. Transformational changes of this type abound throughout nature - the epidemic transmission of a virus, the critical mass of a runaway social trend, metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly, and even certain emotional changes, like the process of falling in love. The change is comprehensive and dramatic. This is called a phase transition, a state change that occurs without altering a system’s underlying chemical composition. Phase transitions are sudden, non-linear, and system-altering. The physics of a phase transition are analogous to transformational change in other systems, including social ones. In a phase transition, as the energy, temperature or information passing through the system increases, the current threshold is approached and crossed, provoking a sudden, discontinuous, system-level change. First the system is operating at one level, then suddenly, another. While transformation is typically an achieved state, the physical change occurs suddenly, triggered by a slight increase in energy, temperature or information, as in the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. At this critical juncture, the tipping point, the system reaches a high level of disequilibrium, then finally gives way, becoming fundamentally altered as it experiences transition to the new steady state. As with any phase transition, transformation is always associated with an increase in energy, information or temperature. During the development of the adult butterfly, for example, the chrysalis loses nearly half its weight. This shows that the experience of transformation consumes tremendous energy. In the same way, upshifting to Superperformance consumes tremendous energy instituting new habits while simultaneously surrendering old ones.

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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
- Buckminster Fuller

Revolutions never go backwards.
- Anonymous

How does one become a butterfly?” she asked pensively. “You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
- Trina Paulus

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.
- Marilyn Ferguson

The first step is transformation of the individual. This transformation is discontinuous. . . The individual, transformed, will perceive new meaning to his life, to events, to numbers, to interactions between people.
- W. Edwards Deming

The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.
- Nido Qubein

If you never change your mind, why have one?
- Edward De Bono

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
– Carl Bard

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
– Max DePree

Organizations are like fish that evolved to thrive in the ocean – the high-viscosity world of the industrial age. They must now change into fowl to thrive in the zero-viscosity world of the information age.
- Brad Cox

Two Parts

Superperformers leverage passion and process to become everything they can be. We share this foundation of polar-complementarity with all of life in general. We inhabit a Universe of chaos and order, left and right, male and female, expand and contract. Everyday we buy and sell, twist and turn, think and feel.

The ancient Chinese philosophy of yin-yang holds that everything in nature consists of opposite forces, which must remain in balance for life to thrive. The yin and yang are opposing forces that constantly shift, operating in continual conflict, but at the same time requiring each other for completion. These opposites drive each other towards creativity and excellence, while at the same time restraining each other to inspire harmony.

Twenty-first century physicists exploring the immutable forces of nature have come to the same conclusion. In referring to this inescapable influence, Nobel Physicist Niels Bohr’s famous complementarity principle described the paradox of the particle-wave duality encountered at the subatomic level of light. Bohr discovered that fundamentally, light consists of streams of particles (photons) that simultaneously behave like waves. Afterwards, Bohr saw evidence of complementarity everywhere. Not just subatomic particles, but all of reality, he insisted, fall under the sway of complementarity: “‘We have been forced to recognize that we must modify not only all our concepts of classical physics but even the ideas we use in everyday life . . .”

Superperformers leverage this same ubiquitous relationship. It is this interaction at the fountainhead of Superperformance. Superperformers have simply super-collided their tangible and intangible parts to “escape to a new level” of performance.

Lead people, manage process.
- Superperformance Proverb

That which is in opposition is in concert, and from things that differ come the most beautiful harmony.
- Heraclitus

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everthing that can be counted, counts.
- Einstein

Contraria sunt Complementa (Opposites are Complements)
- Niels Bohr

What we call “I” is just a swinging door that moves when we inhale and exhale.
- Shunru Suzuki

The reverse side also has its reverse side.
- Japanese Proverb

We cannot change the direction of the wind . . . but we can adjust our sails.
- Unknown

A well-conceived vision consists of two major components: core ideology and envisioned future. Core ideology, the yin of our scheme, defines what we stand for and why we exist. Yin is unchanging and complements yang, the envisioned future. The envisioned future is what we desire to become, to achieve, to create – something that will require significant change and progress to attain.
- Jim Collins and Jerry Porras

To be a Christian is to believe in the impossible. Jesus was God. Jesus was human. This is what scripture affirms. Yet theologians and philosophers and ordinary people have argued about it for nearly two thousand years. How could Jesus be both human and divine? That he was both is the basic affirmation of the Christian faith. We human beings seem quite capable of accepting that light is a particle and light is a wave. So why should it be more difficult to comprehend that Jesus was completely God and Jesus was completely human?
- Madeline Lengle

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
- Anonymous

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
– Albert Einstein

. . . . that we have two realities; one in which our bodies appear to be concrete in time and space; and one in which our very being appears to exist as a shimmering cloud of energy.
– Michael Talbot

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
– Niels Bohr

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.
– Norman Mailer

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Superperformers are driven by a higher purpose. they called to make a difference, to achieve something meaningful, to do something good. They want to serve. All people long to be a part of something larger than themselves and work together rather than competing against each other.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
- Viktor Frankl

Better than the one who knows what is right is he who loves what is right.
- Confucius

Christ has no body on earth but yours. Yours are the only hands with which he can do his work. Yours are the only feet with which he can go about the world. Yours are the only eyes through which his compassion can shine through a troubled world. Christ has no body on earth but yours.
- St Theresa of Avila

God does not command that we do great things, only little things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

All work which uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with the utmost excellence.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret.
- Leo Bascaglia

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
– Albert Schweitzer

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.
– Ecclesiastes 3:1

You can’t change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.
– Buckminster Fuller

I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.
– William Saroyan

JOY IN WORK

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other factor.
– Paul Hawken

Securities analysts continue to get it wrong. Companies don’t make money. They make shoes.
- Peter Drucker

There are very few inferior people in the world – only inferior environments.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.
– Johann Sebastian Bach

The work will show you how to do it.
– Estonian Proverb

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
– Thomas Alva Edison

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
- Norman Vincent Peale

INTUITION

One’s deep intuition is an infallible guide to purpose and accomplishment.
- William Harman

There is no need to run outside for better seeing. Nor to peer from a window. Rather, reside in the center of your being. The more you leave it, the less you learn.
- Lao Tzu

To learn how to choose a path with heart is to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.
- Jean Shinoda Bolen

Intuition always has our best interests at heart.
- Christina Baldwin

Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.
- Oprah Winfrey

One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities.
- Bill Lear

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
- Sigmund Freud

Psyche cannot be totally different from matter, for how otherwise can it move matter? And matter cannot be totally alien to psyche, for how else could matter produce psyche? … If research could only advance far enough . . . we should arrive at an ultimate agreement between physical and psychological concepts.
- Carl Jung

The part of us that perceives the tangible . . . is itself intangible.
- Anonymous

As little as one-third to one-half of most companies’ stock-market value is accounted for these days by hard assets such as property, plant, and equipment. The growing share of measurement lies in intellectual or ‘invisible’ attributes not traditionally viewed as assets at all—such as customer satisfaction, internal business processes, an organization’s ability to learn and grow, and the effectiveness of corporate culture. It is within this realm of invisible factors that spirituality in business lives.
- Brenda Rarey

Ideas are merely sensations imprinted deep inside us...Like attracts like...There is great wisdom in the subconscious mind. If you begin to work with it, it can be of tremendous benefit to you and serve as an excellent reservoir of knowledge.
– James Van Praagh

UNLIMITED POSSIBILITY

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
– James Allen

We all have reservoirs of life to draw upon, of which we do not dream.
- William James

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
- Gandhi

Dwell in possibility.
- Emily Dickenson

Your are pure potential.
- Martin de Moot

Imagination rules the world.
- Napoleon

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie

There is a self which is outside of space and time.
- Peter Russell

Every man takes the limits of his field of vision for the limits of the world.
– Arthur Schopenhaurer

Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.
- A. Lou Vickery

Man is made or unmade by himself...In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.
– -James Allen

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it cannot be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
- Elbert Hubbard

Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
– Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture you are a victim of it.
- S.I. Hayakawa

INTEGRITY OF PURPOSE

Your work is to discover your work, and then with all your heart, to give yourself to it.
- Buddha

Rather than spend eons without an awakening, have no second thoughts.
- Jakushitsu

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

If you stand, just stand.
If you sit, just sit.
But don’t wobble.
- Tunmen

If you want to know your past - look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future - look into your present actions.
- Buddhist Saying

If you love what you do, you will never work another day in your life.
- Confucius

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
- Sir Thomas Brown

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
– Martha Graham

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
- Kirkegaard

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
– Anonymous

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
– Washington Irving

A person is led on the path that he truly wants to travel on.
– The Talmud

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
– Lao Tzu

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
– Fredrich Nietzsche

GOODNESS

For the good that I would, I do not, but the evil which I would not, that I do.
- St. Paul

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Sin is energy in the wrong channel.
- St. Augustine

We cannot get grace from gadgets.
- J. B. Priestly

When our hearts are open, providence makes straight our path.
- Anonymous

God has no religion.
- Ghandi

Wisdom and compassion are inseparable
- Christmas Humphreys

All the special gifts and powers from God will someday come to an end, but loves goes on forever.
- I Corinthians 13:8

Service is love in action.
– Mother Teresa

All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.
– Randolph Bourne

HUMILITY

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.
- Bayazid Al-Bistami

The fool who knows his foolishness is wise to that extent.
- Dhammapada

There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.
- Hasidic Saying

The quieter you become, the more you hear.
- Baba Ram Dass

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that for the world at large.
– Ghandi

Before you take the splinter out of your brothers eye, take the log out of your own.
– Jesus

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
- Saint Augustine

PERSISTENCE

I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that's precisely why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan

Genius is nothing but continued attention.
- Claude Adrien Helvetius

It’s always too early to quit.
- Norman Vincent Peale

I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it
- Art Williams

That which we persist in doing becomes easier – not that the nature of the task has changed, but an ability to do it has increased.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.
– William Durant

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.
- Marcus Aurelius

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Fortitudine Vincimus. (By endurance we conquer.)
- Ernest Shackleton Family Motto

TRUTH

Integrity is more important than techniques.
- Mike Markkula

Those who seek the truth by means of intellect and learning only get further and further away from it.
- Huang-Po

The truth is more important than the facts.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

To live in falsehood is worse than death.
- Zend-Avesta

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts . . . take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
- Marcus Aurelius

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.
– Joyce Cary

The superior man seeks what is right, the inferior one, what is profitable.
- Confucius

A little unlearning goes a long way.
– Richard Kehl

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
– Albert Einstein

If one is a master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
- Vincent Van Gogh

Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“Rabbit’s clever,” said Pooh thoughtfully.
“Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit’s clever.”
“And he has Brain.”
“Yes,” said Pooh, “Rabbit has brain.”
There was a long silence.
“I suppose,” said Pooh, “that that’s why he never understands anything.”
– The House on Pooh Corner

Beware you don’t lose the substance while grasping the shadow.
– Aesop

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
– Rabindranath Tagore

The map is not the territory.
- Anonymous

One must be as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi

INSPIRATION

The person who says “I’m enlightened” probably isn’t.
- Baba Ram Dass

The mind is everything; what you think, you become.
- Buddha

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps subconsciouness – I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
– Aaron Copeland

Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance.
– Horace Meyer Kallen

Sometimes you reach a point of being so coordinated, so completely balanced, that you feel that you can do anything - anything at all. At times like this, I find I can run up to the front of the board and stand on the nose when pushing out through a breaking wave; I can goof around, put myself in an impossible situation and then pull out of it, simply because I feel happy. An extra bit of confidence like this can carry you through, and you can do things that are just about impossible.
- Midget Farrelly

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
– Sigmund Freud

SIMPLICITY

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so the necessary can speak.
– Hans Hoffman

All is flow.
- Heraclitus

Study nature as the countenance of God.
– Kingsley

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
– Bruce Lee

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Albert Einstein

Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
– Eddie Cantor

Learn to get in touch with the inner silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.
– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life that you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the Universe will be simpler.
– Henry David Thoreau

Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler.
- Albert Einstein

I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring woods; - in all these I am practicing Zen, I am living Zen. No wordy discussion is necessary or any explanation.
- D T Suzuki

I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money.
– Pablo Picasso

If the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein

ATTACHMENT

He who grasps loses.
- Tao te Ching

Whenever there is attachment
Association with it
Brings endless misery.
- Gampopa

Not collecting treasures prevents stealing.
- Tao te Ching

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
- Samuel Johnson

Money often costs too much
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I saw that nothing is permanent. You don’t want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
- Yoko Ono

The trouble with the rat race is even if you win you’re still a rat.
– Lily Tomlin

It's been said, "All is an illusion." That's an insufficient distinction; more accurately, it's all a perception.
– Eldon Taylor

The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.
– Lao Tzu

The darkest hour of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
– Horace Greely

When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.
- Voltaire

COURAGE

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Goethe
The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.
- Mary Webb

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
- Sydney Smith

You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.
- Peter Drucker

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons.
- Chōgyam Trungpa

There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution. – Confucius

A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd

Happiness is a form of courage.
- Holbrook Jackson

Life is a rush into the unknown. You can cower down and hope nothing hits you, or you can stand tall, show it your teeth, and say ‘Dish it up baby, and don’t be stingy with the jalapenos!’
– Anonymous

There is no problem in any situation that faith will not solve.
- A Course in Miracles

CREATIVITY

To advance from the ordinary requires a new game, or a new territory.
- Kevin Kelly

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
- Tom Robbins

Power of mind is unlimited while brawn is limited.
- Boichi Tohei

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
- Abraham Maslow

Children share with geniuses an open, inquiring, uninhibited quality of mind.
- Chauncey Guy Suits

The kingdom of God is within you.
- Luke 17:21

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.
- Thomas Crum

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.
- George Bernard Shaw

You are a principal work, a fragment of God himself, and you have in yourself a part of Him. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?
- Epictetus

We’re all born creative geniuses. Society de-geniuses us.
– Buckminster Fuller

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
– Duke Ellington

If you follow all the rules you miss all the fun.
– Katherine Hepburn

CONNECTEDNESS

They understood the birth of a single child could affect the entire Universe. Just as physicists today understand that all creation is a single organism. Nothing happens in isolation.

- Madeline Lengle

Healing only comes from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement with ego.
- C. J. Jung

Every man for himself is a recipe for disaster.
- Ernest Shackleton

Every city or household divided against itself will not stand.
- Matthew 12:25

Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
– Walt Whitman

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
– Randolph S. Bourne

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
– Mother Teresa

RIGHT ACTION

Perfection of means, and confusion of aim, seems to characterize our age.
-Albert Einstein

To know and to act are the same.
- Samurai Maxim

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Let not the fruit of action be your motivation. Your business is with action alone, not with the fruit of action.
- Bhagavad Gita

Few among men are they who cross over to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
- Dhammapada

Faith plus nothing equals nothing.
- John MacArthur

Trust only in movement, life happens at the level of action. We are not what we say but we are what we do. What we do is the real key to our intentions.
- Alfred Adler

I don’t have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It’s what you do with it that counts.
- Martin Ritt

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain.
– William Jennings Bryan

No man is free that cannot command himself.
- Pythagoras

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
– Alexander Pope

God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.
– Josiah Gilbert Holland

My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

FAITH

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Don't be afraid. Just believe.
- Jesus

Doubt closes the flow. Faith opens it up.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Not nakedness, not matted locks, not dirt, or fasting or sleeping on the bare earth, or sitting motionless can purify a man who has not overcome his doubts.
- Dhammapada

Fear is the absence of faith.
- Paul Tillish

In what concerns divine things, belief is inappropriate. Only certainty will do. Nothing less than certainty is worthy of God.
– Nicole Weil

Adventures don’t begin until you get into the forest. The first step is an act of faith.
– Mickey Hart. Grateful Dead

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.
- Socrates

Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.
- Ojibwa Saying

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Be still and know that I am God.
- Psalm 46.10

OPTIIMISM

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is too wonderful to be true.
- Michael Faraday

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
- Marianne Williamson

Every day is a good day.
– Proverb

A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye and it fills the whole world and puts everything out of focus. Hold it at a proper distance and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway of life.
- Celia Luce

Have a good day, count your blessings, and pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are.
- Rachel Gordon

Every blade of grass has an Angel that bends over it and whispers, “Grow, grow.”
- The Talmud

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
- Reginald Mansell

Nothing on earth can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
- Jonathan Swift

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
- Colin Powell

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong... Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?Thich Nhat Hanh

A wise man makes more opportunities than he finds.
- Francis Bacon

Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.
- William Lyon Phelps

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
- Lucille Ball

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
– Susan Jeffers

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
- W. Clement Stone

A man’s true wealth is the good he does in this world.
- Mohammad

LEARNING

There is no substitute for knowledge.
- W. Edwards Deming

Knowledge is not information, but transformation.
- Osho

Quality is to a product what character is to a man.
- H.J. Heinz

The trouble with most of us is we know too much that ain’t so.
- Mark Twain

You can’t learn anything from experiences you’re not having.
- Louis L’amour

Learning without action is not learning.
- Proverb

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
– Alexander Pope

You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck. Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, experience usually comes from bad judgment.
– Unknown

Life is like a grinding stone - it can polish you or pulverize you - depending on how you position yourself
– Larry De Angelo

Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth.
– Carl Jung

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
– William James

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
– Pir Vilayat Khan

A rising tide lifts all ships.
- Proverb

We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it’s more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors. - Norman Vincent Peale

If you teach a man something, he will never learn anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

Don’t let your schooling get in the way of your education.
- Mark Twain

I am still learning.
- Michelangelo

Great sages have childlike natures. Before God they are always like children. They have no pride. Their strength is the strength of God, the strength of their Father. They have nothing to call their own. They are firmly convinced of that.
- Ramakrishna

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