25 Aldous Huxley Quotes - Nothing you fear will harm you.

Music is a total brain workout. Research has shown that listening to music can reduce anxiety, blood pressure, and pain as well as improve sleep quality, mood, mental alertness, and memory.

Music also has been shown to enhance intelligence, improve mental focus, boost the immune system, strengthen self-esteem, and increase confidence.

Music expresses the ineffable.

Why would knowing the truth make me mad? Because I choose to believe in untruths and lies instead.

I'm mad (mentally ill; insane) because I've denied my birthright. I've chosen the ego over love itself.

It may be. It sure seems that way at times.

I get to define what the experiences mean to me.

I'm always at liberty to choose what I think and how I feel about you.

I'm not a victim of the world I see.

My opinions have no contribution to what's TRUE.

If we're brutally honest with ourselves we'd have to admit that most of what we believe to be true, isn't.

We have Justus (Just Us) von Liebig, a German chemist to thank for fashioning the mirror more than 200 years ago. I'm certain he would be shocked at what it has evolved into in the 21st century.

Before the mirror was invented, we had glimpsed our own reflections in water, or in polished metals, but never really seen ourselves.

Narcissists enjoy looking at themselves in the mirror. They spend so much time grooming themselves to bolster their false sense of self.

Most of the time we look into a mirror we have feelings of inadequacy, self-doubt, and unworthiness. We not only harshly judge ourselves but also feel judged by the world at large.

The more you look in a mirror, the less you look around. When you're obsessed with constantly checking your reflection, all of your time and energy ends up being focused on maintaining a certain image.

We worry about trivial things such as whether your tie is on straight, or whether on not your lipstick has worn off.

Gazing into a mirror makes it possible to face your emotions and the reactions that accompany them. It also can help you learn to counter self-judgment with appreciation, compassion, and love. Is this what you use your mirror for?

We gaze at ourselves in the mirror and subsequently fall in love with an image. We claim that what's being reflected back is us. But if that's us in the mirror who is the watcher?

There's more to you than the way you look.

Here's a way to solve the world's problems overnight. Have them look in a mirror and see themselves in this way.

We can dream anything we want to dream. So why is it that we dream of fear, separation, and guilt?

And life is nothing but a dream.

All the world is but a perception. There are 7.753 billion little worlds and never two shall meet.

If only we would learn from our history the lessons would be over.

Is your light dim?

Has your intense eagerness to love and be loved been lost somewhere along the way?

What god possesses your mind?

Do you take yourself and life so seriously that you've forgotten to laugh?

Remember, we must all learn to roll our inspiration forward into adulthood.

I'm going to work on my one corner. How about you?

To thine own self be true.

Outcast - a person who has been rejected by society or a social group.

The masses have always been wrong.

I'd better have thick skin because the world has no qualms about persecuting me.

My belief that I'm better than you is what makes me feel lonely.

My belief that I'm inferior to you is what makes me feel lonely.

Silence is golden.

Having another thought is the worst thing that can happen to me.

Silence needs nothing. Wants nothing. Judges nothing. Asks for nothing.

We hold sex to be sacred because we hold the body sacred too.

Do we have to sexualize everything? Surely we're smarter than that.

From ages one to five, that's all the time we have to establish a good foundation unless we are willing to reprogram ourselves.

Show me the environment of a child from ages one to five and I will astound you with my predictions.

Our entire existence is a set of programs and conditioning, much of which we are totally oblivious to.

"Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them."

Effortless ease.

That which we pursue runs away from us.

When you look upon the world with loving eyes happiness shines down on you.

Thirsty (slang) - a graceless need for approval, affection, or attention, one so raw that it creeps people out.

"Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind."
There was a long silence.
"I claim them all," said the Savage at last.”

Where are you staking your claim? We have choices, you know.

It's not wise to argue for your limitations of unhappiness.

I take my health for granted.

I take this platform for granted.

I take my ability to think whatever I want to think for granted.

I take my autonomic nervous system for granted.

I take God's grace for granted.

I take my existence in time and space for granted.

I take the ineffable for granted.

Whenever I compare myself to another I'm always better. I'm never equal and of course, I'm never behind.

I'm attached to being a "self" no matter what that is and even if the self is nasty.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can, and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”

Errors are made for correction, not punishment.

The past is useless unless it in some way helps you heal in the present moment.

"And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”

The obstacle is the way.

Lord, don't move the mountain
Give me the strength to climb
Lord, don't move my stumbling blocks
But lead me all around

We are slaves to wrongdoing and erroneous thinking.

Despite never having success by holding onto grievances we still insist on doing so.

The only way out of suffering is to rebel against believing you could be hurt by anyone or anything in the world.

No one knows about my memories but me.

Even if I speak to you about my memories it only appears as images in your mind.

My memories are grossly inaccurate and most times I totally forget that I'm lying to myself.