"If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy."

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Source : Don Richard Riso, Russ Hudson (1999). “The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types”, Bantam

Don Richard Riso

#Personality Quotes #Joy Quotes #Wake Up Quotes

“While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.”
“Career-wise, I was not the most naturally talented ice skater. Of course I had a knack for it , but practice was always the answer for me. I needed to put in the time to get back the confidence that led me to Olympic gold.”

Source : "Tara Lipinski: On Dealing with Stress, Using Failure to Fuel Success, and How she Keeps her Head Clear". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“We tend to live up to our expectations.”
“Too often we pray to have patience, but we want it right now!”
“Vampires,after all,don't sparkle.”
“We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are not qualified to make almost every time we enter the voting booth, go to the grocery store or step into a car show room. We do not know what is "normal." Because our whole life and in some respects a generation or two before us have only known this era of fossil fuel exploitation and resource grabbing; we call this normal.”
“When the brain is working to remember something, similar patterns of neurons fire as they did during the perception of the original event. These networks are linked, and each time we revisit them, they become stronger and more associated. But they need the proper retrieval cues--words, smells, images-- for them to be brought back as memories”

Source : Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.200, Simon and Schuster
“The work is never finished because women forever will be eternally mysterious to me - and I will always find that point where people are lost in thought, observed but lacking self-consciousness, the most beautiful.”

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