USEFUL SAYINGS

To occupy the mind, a saying has to be repeated many times in sequence.
A saying is useful only when appropriate.

• You are okay. It is the scorners who are not okay.
• (addressing the source of a bad feeling/mood directly) Who are you, and what is your purpose?
• (during meditation) Afloat in the current of space-time
• Withdraw. Withdraw. Withdraw. (as if putting down your fists)
• You are more tolerant of other people than you are of yourself. (A person's mind doesn't change until he or she starts objecting to his or her own self-mistreatment.)
• Everything is inevitable. (This recognition, which we call forgiveness, is the heart of spirituality.)
• Life's greatest word: equal. Not only are others equal to you, but you are equal to them, as well.
• Choose life, not the having lived. You are alive to the continuous newness of existence.
• It is up to you to stand by your own conclusions, to make up your mind in your own favor, to be intolerant of your own self-harassment, to be decisive in your own behalf, to come down on your own side.
• The more significant one's present is, the less significant one's past becomes.
• Who are you? You are a living organism, a self, functioning in the present. You see, you hear, you smell, you taste, you feel. At the same time, you are continuously self-directing.
• A person is not a unity. You are composed of many parts.
• Do what is called for by circumstances. Let your mind provide insights. You are alive.
• You might not know what to do next, but your body knows. Your body is a genius.
• Leaving the facts behind, leaving the facts behind, leaving the facts behind . . .
• Your mind is absolutely private.
• You are separate. You are safe.
• Your life is only your own, not anyone else's.
• All you can take is what you get. Do the best with what you've got. What have you got? Only what is, here, now.
• You are in Nature/life, not apart from it. (Self-importance is an illusion. Everything was (and is and will be) inevitable.)
• Whether you were right, justified, and innocent, on the one hand, or wrong, not justified, and guilty, on the other hand, doesn't matter. Only the facts remain.
• You are totally created by Nature/life. Allow your egotism (self-importance/experiencing yourself subjectively) to collapse. Experience yourself objectively.
• You didn't create that [thought, feeling].
• What happens is Nature's way. (Everything that a person does is natural. If it weren't natural, it wouldn't exist. We cannot overrule the processes of Nature/life. Everything was, is, and will be inevitable, in accordance with the ways of Nature. Einstein's, or anyone else's, insights are all the workings of Nature/life.)
• All thoughts and feelings arise from a pool of originations in the mind.
• Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation. (Isaac Newton)
• That thought/feeling/mood has risen to the surface (emerged into consciousness).
• Please, go back, all of you (global rejection of all harassing thoughts).
• That thought is unfriendly. You need a friendly, kind, supportive subconscious.
• You have within you a reserve of kindness, both for yourself and for others. You have within you a reserve of compassion, both for yourself and for others. You have within you a reserve of forgiveness, both for yourself and for others. You have within you a reserve of mercy, both for yourself and for others.
• You might wish that it weren't so, but it is. You can acknowledge reality. Don't deny it. It is in Nature.
• You might wish that it were so, but it isn't. You can acknowledge reality. Don't deny it. It is in Nature.
• That is just a thought.
• You are agonizing/obsessing/worrying. Thinking can't change reality.
• You are repeating yourself.
• You are feeling terror, horror, pain, a breach, you are feeling terror, horror, pain, a breach, you are feeling terror . . .
• You are suffering a wave of bad feeling.
• You are feeling unwanted, you are feeling unwanted, you are feeling unwanted, . . . (disliked, isolated, lonely)
• You are feeling sexual attraction, you are feeling sexual attraction, you are feeling sexual attraction, . . . (when bothered by intrusive sexual interest)
• You are responsible for imposing your own philosophy on yourself. Be a leader of the unfortunates. Disrespect the scorners.
• Pain/hurt feelings lead to self-consciousness, which leads to aloneness, which leads to sexual attraction
• "What are you doing?" "Breathing/walking." "What are you consciously experiencing?" "My breathing/walking." "Good."
• You have a right to your opinion.
• No two people are the same. (You are not like that (other person whom you envy). You can only be the person you got.)
• (When trying to fall asleep) I look for dream images. I sleep. I dream.
• Begin again, with compassion.