Quotes About Attainment

The more you achieve, the happier you are likely to live.

To find oneself, one must stop seeking knowledge and simple memorization. It is about self-training, practice and attaining pure wisdom. Even little wisdom means so much in this area.

On GOALSETTING: "I don't enjoy talking about what I am GOING to DO. I prefer to let folks find out what I've DONE.

Perfection is possible

In those days, I believed that proficiency in English and success in business were the direct result of high academic achievements.

Therefore, when you know what you want, you must deliberately focus your attention on the feeling of your wish fulfilled until that feeling fills the mind and crowds all other ideas out of consciousness.

person you want to be and assume that you are already that person. If this assumption is persisted in until it becomes your dominant feeling, the attainment of your ideal is inevitable.

Your imagination is the instrument, the means, whereby your redemption from slavery, sickness, and poverty is effected. If you refuse to assume the responsibility of the incarnation of a new and higher concept of yourself, then you reject the means, the only means, whereby your redemption — that is, the attainment of your ideal — can be effected.

Concentrate your attention entirely upon the thing desired."   Oddly

Your destiny is that which you must inevitably experience. Really it is an infinite number of individual destinies, each of which when attained is the starting place for a new destiny.

You shall become conscious of being or possessing a thing and you shall express or possess that which you are conscious of being.

Thus the scriptures tell you that you must persist in rising to (assuming) the consciousness of your wish already being fulfilled. The promise is definite that if you are shameless in your impudence in assuming that you already have that which your senses deny, it shall be given unto you — your desire shall be attained.

Before you can have, you must do; but before you can do, you must first become.

Activities of self-realization are subject to increasing marginal utility:

the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

The concentration power of zazen, enabling you to walk through a place as busy as downtown Tokyo as if you were walking alone through an uninhabited desert, springs from a deep principle cultivated only in the practice of samadhi with one's eyes open. It is this point that only a person of attainment would know. You must never make light of opening or shutting your eyes.

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

O, may my lips someday attain The primal muteness that I've sought - That's like a flawless crystal note, Its purity - from birth sustained.

The came of the instinctive heaven Is attained through experience and sweat.

Our reach must exceed our grasp.

If Jesus Christ is only a teacher, then all He can do is frustrate me by setting a standard before me I cannot attain.

He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.

Perfect is close enough.