Quotes 161 till 172 of 172.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
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You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations.
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You don't really talk about it in terms of the U.N., you talk about it in terms of the United States and the Soviet Union. If you cannot, by diplomacy, bring the Soviet Union into an alliance with the U.S. to stop this situation it is not going to be stopped.
Inside Washington, March 6, 1993. -
You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.
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You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
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You're going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn't necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, 'Could I have done things to prevent this situation?'
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Your brain sends out vibrations all the time, and your thoughts affect your life and other people's. They pick up these thoughts and get changed by them. That's why, say, a pacifist gets caught up in a riot situation. It's a field of vibrations - you can 'feel' someone else's thoughts when close to them.
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Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
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Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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