Quotes About Reaction

The energy form that lies behind hostility and attack finds the presence of love absolutely intolerable. If you react at all to your partner's unconsciousness, you become unconscious yourself. But if you then remember to know your reaction, nothing is lost.

The ego] cannot tell the difference between an event and its reaction to that event. Every ego is a matter of selective perception and distorted interpretation. Only through awareness—not through thinking—can you differentiate between fact and opinion. Only through awareness are you able to see: There is the situation and here is the anger I feel about it, and then realize there are other ways of approaching the situation, other ways of seeing it and dealing with it.

Sometimes the "fault" that you perceive in another isn't even there. It is a total misinterpretation, a projection by a mind conditioned to see enemies and to make itself right or superior. At other times, the fault may be there, but by focusing on it, sometimes to the exclusion of everything else, you amplify it. And what you react to in another, you strengthen in yourself.

Ego takes everything personally. Emotion arises, defensiveness, perhaps even aggression.

Due to a complete lack of self-awareness, they cannot tell the difference between an event and their reaction to the event.

When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were. By

Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind

Mind, in the way I use the word, is not just thought. It includes your emotions as well as all unconscious mental-emotional reactive patterns. Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind — or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body. For example, an attack thought or a hostile thought will create a buildup of energy in the body that we call anger.

an emotion is the body's reaction to your mind. What

una emoción es la reacción del cuerpo a su mente. ¿Qué mensaje del ego está recibiendo el cuerpo continuamente, el falso ser elaborado por la mente? Peligro, estoy amenazado. ¿Y cuál es la emoción que genera este mensaje continuo? Miedo, por supuesto.

Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind — or you might say a reflection of your mind in the body.

Now remember that an emotion is the body's reaction to your mind.

La emoción surge en el punto donde cuerpo y mente se encuentran. Es la reacción del cuerpo a la mente o, dicho de otra forma, el reflejo de la mente en el cuerpo.

Magnifique! ejaculated the Countess de Coude, beneath her breath.

been extolling for the last twenty minutes, then fixed me with a polite stare. "Is something wrong?" I opened my mouth

They watched him walk away. Now, there's a fascinating fellow, Adele breathed. So charming, Pippa's grandmother sighed. He minces, Pippa said.

she always paid for her rare indiscretions by a violent reaction of prudence.

There is nothing like a Revolution for making people conservative.

You idiot! said his wife, and threw down her cards.

The punch was getting to them, their faces redder and small tiffs between couples

Anger takes everything personally, as if everything is an intentional act to make your life miserable.

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

Muy sensible es la reacción de una comunidad de chimpancés en una jaula cuando un miembro de la familia toma LSD. Aunque en el propio animal no puedan comprobarse cambios, toda la jaula se alborota, porque el chimpancé con LSD aparentemente deja de cumplir con precisión las leyes del muy sutil orden jerárquico familiar.