Top 36 Oli Anderson Quotes
#1. Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place; dialogue is an attempt to dance with the unknown at the risk of losing what we think we know.
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#2. One of the most human things that you can do is reach out for the stars knowing that you might not ever touch them; we are all perfectly imperfect, but to live knowing so is to be a fulfilled human being.
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#3. If philosophy gets you lost in the labyrinth of symbols that distance us from reality, then it is part of the problem; if it motivates positive action that can create a better world, philosophy is usually a gift.
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#4. It is essential to our health and happiness that we dedicate ourselves to some kind of mission or purpose that transcends the mundane hustle and bustle of daily living.
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#5. Don't cling to your self-concept purely because your will demands it. Demand that your environment aligns as much as possible and change what you must about yourself when the outer world can't be changed. Mental health is about mental fluidity, mental illness stems in rigidity.
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#6. We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone.
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#7. The human condition is essentially the conflict between the human need for control and a universe that provides little if any of it. Once we accept this and get into the flow of life, we are free and, paradoxically, able to get better results.
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#8. Most arguments are about programming; most resolutions are reached through a process of unlearning then relearning.
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#9. Dialogue reminds us that we can question to build, not only to doubt or deconstruct.
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#10. When people challenge your ideas, they help you (whether they know it or not).
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#11. Dialogue is about freeing human beings from the beliefs and attitudes that make human beings miserable.
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#12. Dialogue unplugs you from your own programming as you become more real; debate turns up the voltage and entrenches you more deeply.
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#13. When one dream dies we replace it with another.
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#14. Having problems doesn't make you noble or virtuous, it makes you human. Nobility and virtue comes from the way that you handle your problems and either learn to move past them or live with them if out of your control.
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#15. Dialogue isn't a competition to be the smartest or the most correct person in the room; it is a collaboration to find the truth.
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#16. Acceptance is an active response to a temporary situation; surrender is a passive reaction to a situation that you think will last forever.
-Personal Revolutions
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#17. God' is whatever is the next obvious step towards wholeness in yourself and your life; 'Ego' is whatever within you stops you taking it.
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#18. To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions of your ego.
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#19. There are two types of 'busy': 1)
Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.
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#20. Dialogue can help you find out if you've been brainwashed or not.
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#21. Practicing dialogue helps you to cultivate a realness that allows you to face reality on its own terms, not just the terms you'd like it to have in order to remain in your comfort zone.
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#22. Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.
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#23. Dialogue is an opportunity for people to communicate from outside the limitations of their points of view. When we enter a circle of dialogue, there are no labels, only human beings.
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#24. Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time and
place.
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#25. If we go in to each situation that life throws at us with an attitude that we can
learn from it then we will never be truly defeated.
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#26. Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the 'best' and only way to do so is
through action.
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#27. Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life.
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#28. Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.
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#29. I decided to give up meaningless sex, but then I remembered that everything is meaningless.
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#30. The final lesson is that 'reality' is always the way to go and that acceptance is the only way to get there.
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#31. This world is your world but that doesn't mean you can always stop it from burning.
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#32. Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide.
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#34. See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.
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#35. Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.
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#36. If humans created it then it is the product of a choice that somebody made. And if it was chosen it can be changed.
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