Posts Tagged ‘truth’
ELOQUENCE
“Essential truth spoken concisely is true eloquence.”
Krsnadas Kaviraj Goswami
ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING COACHING LETTER
Excerpt From A Coaching Letter - By David B. Wolf
“Assertive” doesn’t mean abrasive or offensive. It means you being connected with who you are and asserting that. Also it means detached. Assertiveness is not merely a skill; it’s intrinsic to a life of integrity. By not being assertive we are not fulfilling our destiny – expressing ourselves in a way that’s powerful, courageous, and considerate, empathic, honoring others, giving them safe space to respond to our communication. We express ourselves fully. Whatever the result, we are in our integrity, which in itself is success. We’ve expressed our truth without compromising, in a manner not meant to harm or degrade others.
TRUTH
“The highest truth is reality distinguished from illusion for the welfare of all. Such truth uproots the threefold miseries.”
Veda Vyas
OUR RESPONSIBILITY…
“Our responsibility is not to change others—though with our assertive expression they may change. Our responsibility is to assert our own truth in a manner that respects the rights of others.”
David B Wolf
TRUTH
“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
Leo Tolstoy
ALWAYS IN RELATIONSHIP
”I’ve met people who tell me that they’re taking a break from all relationships or will never be in another one because they find them too painful. The truth is that we’re always in a relationship with someone or something. Even if we live on a mountaintop and never see another human, we must still interact with that mountain and ourselves. In those interactions, we’ll be shown the true reflection of our core beliefs. The reason? Our mirrors in the world never stop – they’re always working. There’s no escape! And the mirrors never lie.”
Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix
FROM JOEL
“I was highly skeptical. Very untrusting. I only went to the foundational because my girlfriend had won a free ticket in a raffle. That course was enough to open my eyes to the possibility of more. I was very hesitant at first about the advanced course and at a certain point during the course I didn’t want to come back. However, after going all the way through I am so glad that I did! Satvatove allowed me to get back in touch with myself. It unlocked some deeper truths about myself that I had buried very deep. I left the course feeling much more in alignment with my true self. I am no longer sleepwalking through life. Things that seemed hard before are now easier. There is much less fear and worry and doubt in my life. As I remain conscious good fortune happens around me just by being present with life. I am not stumbling in the dark, instead I am now walking with eyes open. I encourage everyone to give themselves this gift. It’s repeatable science, it works.”
Joel
Advanced seminar – Florida July 2010
SINCERE DESIRE
“There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.”
Charles Sanders Pierce
TRUTHFULNESS
“… truthfulness, means that facts should be presented as they are for the benefit of others. Facts should not be misrepresented. According to social conventions, it is said that one can speak the truth only when it is palatable to others. But that is not truthfulness. The truth should be spoken in a straight and forward way, so that others will understand actually what the facts are. If a man is a thief and if people are warned that he is a thief, that is truth. Although sometimes the truth is unpalatable, one should not refrain from speaking it. Truthfulness demands that the facts be presented as they are for the benefit of others. That is the definition of truth.”
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
WHAT IS AN AGREEMENT?
Excerpt From A Coaching Letter Written By David B Wolf
“How do agreements come in to being? or what is an agreement?”
My understanding about this is that we each determine this for ourselves. Having said that, I also want to express that my understanding is that the principles that we present in the Satvatove seminars, regarding agreements, are valid regardless of time, circumstance and subjective definition. That is, for example, the principle is that when we keep our agreements we create in our lives trust, confidence, safety, warmth, gratitude, etc., and when we violate our agreements we create mistrust, hurt, decline in self-respect, confusion, etc. In defining what is or is not an agreement we want to be as honest as possible, not avoiding the truth of a broken commitment through some attempt at word play. For myself, I endeavor to be conscious about my language in this regard. For example, if I know that I don’t want to make a commitment, or for the other person to think that I’m giving my word, I’ll specifically use language such as “I may call you tomorrow…” or “I might be at the meeting…”, whereas if I want to create commitment with myself or others, then I endeavor for my language to reflect that, such as “I will call you on Thursday.” With ourselves, whatever stories we may tell ourselves, I believe that we know when we’ve made agreements with ourselves, and as you indicate in your letter, we feel the positive effects when we
fulfill them, and negative effects when we neglect to do so. . . .
With others it seems that it is important to clarify matters if we sense that there is some room for uncertainty with regards to whether it is perceived that we made an agreement. For example, if I say “I’ll try to be there tomorrow at noon…”, and I sense that the other person is responding in a way that he expects me to be there, then it may be helpful, to avoid misunderstanding, for me to clarify on the spot, that I may be there, and that I’m not committing to be there…
