{"quotes":[{"text":"Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["impulse","instincts","spirituality"],"id":24360,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.","author":"Viktor E. Frankl","tags":["behaviour","conscientiousness","frankl","freedom","growth","impulse","response","stimulus"],"id":25752,"author_id":"Viktor+E.+Frankl"},{"text":"Isn’t it funny how we make rational excuses for being out of alignment?\tWe say, “Well, this ____ and that ____ happened, so it makes perfect sense for me to be feeling like this ____ and wanting to do this ____.”\tYet, to this day, I have never met a happy person who adheres to those excuses. In fact, each time I – or anyone else – decide to give in to “rational excuses” that justify feeling bad – it’s interesting that only further suffering is the result.\tThere is never a good enough reason for us to be out of alignment with peace. Sure, we can go there and make choices that dim our lights… and that is fine; there certainly is purpose for it and the contrast gives us lessons to learn… yet if we’re aware of what we are doing and we’re ready to let go of the suffering – then why go there at all? It’s like beating a dead horse. Been there, done that… so why do we keep repeating it?\tPain is going to happen; it’s inevitable in this human experience, yet it is often so brief. When we make those excuses, what happens is: we pick up that pain and begin to carry it with us into the next day… and the next day… into next week… maybe next month… and some of us even carry it for years or to our graves!\tForgive, let it go! It is NOT worth it! It is NEVER worth it. There is never a good enough reason for us to pick up that pain and carry it with us. There is never a good enough reason for us to be out of alignment with peace. Unforgiveness hurts you; it hurts others, so why even go there? Why even promote pain? Why say painful things to yourself or others? Why think pain? Just let it go!\tWhenever I look back on painful things or feel pain today, I know it is my EGO that drives me to “go there.” The EGO likes to have the last word, it likes to feel superior, it likes to make others feel less than in hopes that it will make itself (me) feel better about my insecurities. Maybe if I hurt them enough, they will feel the pain I felt over what they did to me. It’s only fair! It’s never my fault; it’s always someone else’s. There is a twisted sense of pleasure I get from feeling this way, and my EGO eats it right up. YET! With awareness that continues to grow and expand each day, I choose to not feed my pain (EGO) or even go there. I still feel it at times, of course, so I simply acknowledge it and then release it.\tI HAVE power and choice over my speech and actions. I do not need to ever “go there” again. It’s my choice; it’s your choice. So it’s about damn time we start realizing this. We are not victims of our impulses or emotions; we have the power to control them, and so it’s time to stop acting like we don’t. It’s time to relinquish the excuses.","author":"Alaric Hutchinson","tags":["consciousness","ego","emotions-and-attitude","forgive-yourself","forgiveness","growth","happiness","impulse","impulse-control","inner-peace","inspirational","intention","introspection","letting-go","moving-forward","moving-on","pain","power","psychology","releasing-the-past","self-control","self-development","self-discipline","self-improvement","spiritual","wisdom","zen"],"id":39719,"author_id":"Alaric+Hutchinson"},{"text":"It is a fact that if an impulse from one or the other sphere comes up and is not lived out, then it goes back down and tends to develop anti-human qualities. What should have been a human impulse becomes a tiger-like impulse. For instance, a man has a feeling impulse to say something positive to someone and he blocks it off through some inhibition. He might then dream that he had a spontaneous feeling impulse on the level of a child and his conscious purpose had smashed it. The human is still there, but as a hurt child. Should he do that habitually for five years, he would no longer dream of a child who had been hurt but of a zoo full of raging wild animals in a cage. An impulse which is driven back loads up with energy and becomes inhuman. This fact, according to Dr. Jung, demonstrates the independent existence of unconscious.","author":"Marie-Louise von Franz","tags":["dreaming","impulse","jung","unconscious-depth-psychology"],"id":43110,"author_id":"Marie-Louise+von+Franz"},{"text":"There is a deep and perennial and profoundly human impulse to approach the world with a DEMAND, to approach the world with a PRECONDITION, that what has got to turn out to lie at THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE, that what has got to turn out to lie at THE FOUNDATION OF ALL BEING, is some powerful and reassuring and accessible image of OURSELVES... And that, more than any of their particular factual inaccuracies - is what bothers me the most about them. It is precisely the business of resisting that demand, it is precisely the business of approaching the world with open and authentic wonder, and with a sharp, cold eye, and singularly intent upon the truth, that's called science.","author":"David Z. Albert","tags":["authentic","conceit","human","impulse","philosophy","resist","science","truth","wonder","world"],"id":52322,"author_id":"David+Z.+Albert"},{"text":"In my way of thinking, anything is possible. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.","author":"Patti Smith","tags":["impulse","life","m-train","patti-smith","possible"],"id":73337,"author_id":"Patti+Smith"},{"text":"At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.","author":"Dennis Covington","tags":["heart","impulse","stories","write","writing"],"id":81023,"author_id":"Dennis+Covington"},{"text":"Nature is impulsive. To be impulsive is to be fully alive.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["aliveness","impulse","nature","vitality"],"id":88911,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"We are punctual, a stressed, marked characteristic. We need order around us, in the house, in the life, although we live by irresistible impulses, as if the order in the closets, in our papers, in our books, in our photographs, in our souvenirs, in our clothes could preserve us from chaos in our feelings, loves, in our work. Indifference to food, sobriety; but this, we admit, is the part of the war against a threatening fragility.","author":"Anaïs Nin","tags":["chaos","impulse","personality-traits","war"],"id":91331,"author_id":"Ana%C3%AFs+Nin"},{"text":"Anger is easier than forgiveness.","author":"Ellen Hopkins","tags":["ellen-hopkins","impulse","life","perfect","poetry","young-adult"],"id":92234,"author_id":"Ellen+Hopkins"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":47,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}