More learning can occur when there are many obstacles
than when there are few or none
More learning can occur when there are many obstacles
than when there are few or none
Motivation and desire are the bulldozers that move obstacles to your goal.
What is more Paradise than a single, clear obstacle worth overcoming?
obstacles are those frightening things that become visible when we take our eyes off our goals
Wanting to be better in performance is like wanting to be happy -- it is very difficult to get there directly. It is much wiser, first, to focus on the building blocks -- and, in the case of performance, the building blocks are commitment, resilience and ruthless disregard for distractions.
Cake and Life:
If you love someone enough, any kind of cake they bake for you will be wonderful, as it is.
If you love God, the Universe, enough, the life you are given starts to look better, as it is.
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
Do I wrongly avoid silence, distance and obstacles?
The silence of God is never indifference,
Distance from God is never separation,
And obstacles back to God are never permanent
The obstacles to the growth of intuitive knowledge are:
• Eagerness for results
• Use of the imagination, whether intellectually or emotionally
• Intrusion of irrelevant thoughts during meditation
• Ingratitude and skepticism when intuitive perceptions cannot yet be understood intellectually
• Self-complacency and unwillingness to confess mistakes
"A diamond is a lump of coal made good under pressure."
-- anon
When your face is in the dirt, dust off and order dessert.
Often one of the stumbling blocks to living a simpler life is our inability or unwillingness to change how we play some of the games that got us into these complicated lives in the first place.
If you can live by the best inside yourself, the worst outside yourself will crumble at your feet.
It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.
See yourself confronting your fears in your mind's eye and handling those fears like a champ.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
Can we cover the earth in leather so it’s soft wherever we go? What else can we do? Covering our feet in leather is equal to covering the whole world in leather. Likewise, enemies are as limitless as space. All enemies cannot possibly be overcome, yet if one can just overcome hatred this will be equal to overcoming all enemies. All that is unsatisfactory in this world all the fear and suffering that exists clinging to the “I” has created it. What am I to do with this great demon? To release myself from harm and to free all others from their suffering let me give myself away and love others as I love myself. If a problem can be solved why be unhappy? And if it cannot be solved what is the use of being unhappy?
You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.
All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure - all your life.
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.
You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.
Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.
