One day a Zen master told his students that he was going to teach a new technique of shooting an arrow.
He instructed his students to cover his eyes with a cloth and then he shot his arrow. When he opened his eyes, he saw the target with no arrow in it and when he looked at his students, they looked embarrassed because their teacher had missed.
The Zen master asked, ‘What did you learn?’
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Affirmations don’t work. Context works whether you want it or not. What’s the difference between an invented context and an affirmation?
Affirmations don’t work. Context works whether you want it or not. What’s the difference between an invented context and an affirmation?
“I’ve always been famous, it’s just no one knew it yet.” Lady Gaga
What’s the difference between you saying that sentence and Lady Gaga saying that sentence?
The difference is fundamental, and goes to the heart of the “human condition” and the quality of your life.
Human Being, as a species, is capable of self-direction, at least by design. Capable of self-evolvement, capable of using their WORD to create.
Whether Lady Gaga has this capacity, or this is just a bon mot… i.e. a clever saying, is immaterial.
Some people’s word matters (creates), and others’ word doesn’t.