if we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives
Interpretation
Focusing on negativity leads to a cycle of attracting more negativity.
Wayne Dyer's quote emphasizes the power of our thoughts and perceptions. By concentrating on the negative aspects of life, we not only foster a mindset filled with ugliness but also emotionally resonate with those thoughts, consequently manifesting more negativity in our experiences. It serves as a reminder to shift our focus towards positivity to enhance our emotional well-being and overall quality of life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don't blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself.
To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.
I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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