The God Slayer's Handbook
Stany Austinson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We never question the world because, at a subconscious level, we think that this world is, in fact, us. We have been taught to look at authority figures as extensions of us. That complicity we seem to share with the world is manufactured and surreptitiously planted in us, even as children, by adults who do not want their worldview challenged. Most of us have always functioned like this, assuming everything we know, in any event, to be true. We fail to progress because we do not question ourselves, our perceptions, or society’s perceptions.”
“We never question the world because at a subconscious level we think that this world is in fact us. We have been taught to look at authority figures as extensions of us. That complicity we seem to share with the world is manufactured and surreptitiously planted in us even as children by adults who do not want their worldview challenged. Most of us have always functioned like this, assuming everything we know in any event to be true. We fail to progress because we do not question ourselves, our perceptions or the society’s perceptions.”
“The world creates a self for us by virtue of the choices it forces us to make. We stay wedded to that self that has arisen in response to the world, never making any serious attempt at a reinvention. We behave as if we cannot assemble another self. We remain oblivious of the fact that a lot of what we take to be us are in fact, reactions to the situations that life brings our way. But unless we realise this, we would never question the appropriateness or usefulness of these reactions.”
“The world creates a self for us by virtue of the choices it forces us to make. We stay wedded to that self that has arisen in response to the world, never making any serious attempt at a reinvention. We behave as if we cannot assemble another self together. We remain oblivious of the fact that a lot of what we take to be us are in fact, reactions to the situations that life brings our way. But unless we realise this, we would never question the appropriateness or usefulness of these reactions.”
“See what the world has defined you as. See that it never is what you really need. If you are still breathing, know that consciousness is flowing into you. You can summon all the consciousness you need. That is all that you will need to break away from the world. Do not fear tomorrows because tomorrows are just you. Do not say that you do not have time. You are the time. Make your own luck. Luck is just consciousness.”
“Procrastination begins with the little self in charge of your awareness, deciding that it does not want to deal with all the emotions that confronting something might throw up. It gives the standard reply that the self which should be doing whatever task that you are supposed to be doing is not around but would hopefully be back if the problem or task goes away and comes back later. The problem results when you try to press-gang the little self into doing a task it is unsuited for.”
“Most people’s biggest hurdle is that the person they take themselves to be does not exist. They are never that person who they think is going to do all that work. They make all their decisions based on that imagined person. And that person fails to show up. To succeed, you need to be your own master. You need to create that person who will succeed.”
“It is not enough to have dreams and desires—you need to create the structure within or around which your dreams and desires can coalesce. You need to create the space where they can live and breathe. Most of us fail because there is nothing to hold the consciousness together. When you set the alarm to wake up at five in the morning and go for a run, the person who would do that does not exist. When five o’clock arrives, you have to create that person. But for that to happen, you need the consciousness that will serve as its core.”
“It is not enough to have dreams and desires. You need to create the structure within or around which your dreams and desires can coalesce. You need to create the space where they can live and breathe. Most of us fail because there is nothing to hold the consciousness together. When you set the alarm to wake up at 5 and go for a run the person who would do that does not exist. When 5 o’clock arrives you have to create that person. But for that to happen you need the consciousness that will serve as its core.”
“It does not matter if you or others think that the fight is over. Consciousness is endless. You will fight another day. There is never an end to your story. Does that sound unrealistic or unreasonable? Get comfortable being unrealistic and unreasonable. Reason has never mattered to consciousness. Reason is just a means to explain the past or the present. It does not have to shackle your future. Your reality is what you decide it is.”
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self-help, inspirational, self-improvement
