Conflict is natural and can be healthy if handled in a constructive and positive manner - Soft on the person, hard on the problem. — William Ury
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. — Abraham Lincoln
Negotiation is not an act of battle; it’s a process of discovery. The goal is to uncover as much information as possible. — Chris Voss
When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war. — Bertrand Russell
We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force. — Scilla Elworthy
Negotiation jujitsu means breaking the vicious cycle of escalation by refusing to react. — William Ury
Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension. — Swami Vivekananda
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. — Dorothy Thompson
I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration. — Herbert Read
Aggressive confrontation is the enemy of constructive negotiation. — Chris Voss
In principled negotiation focus on basic interests, mutually satisfying options, and fair standards to reach a wise agreement. — William Ury
Negotiation is often described as the art of letting the other side have your way. You have to give the other side a chance to put stuff on the table voluntarily. — Chris Voss
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. — Franz Kafka
You can't always get what you want. — Mick Jagger
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images. — Guy Debord
Salvation could not come to the world without the mediation of Jesus Christ. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
We got to mediate our greedy levels,
Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil. — Q-Tip
Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional. — Max Lucado
You can’t always get what you want. But, if you’re lucky, you get what you need. — Justin Bieber
There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator. — Fritz Lang
Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be. — Idries Shah
Morning Meditation Quotes
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. — Dalai Lama
I trained myself out of the habit of relying on notifications to make me feel good so that I could dedicate my time to my personal two-hour meditation practice every morning. — Jay Shetty
The only thing I have is a burning desire to do something worthwhile with my life. I wake up every morning with love in my heart and fire in my belly. — Chatri Sityodtong
First thing I do in the morning is give thanks to God for another day, and then turn to HLN News or ESPN to see what’s going on in the world. — Vivica Fox
I get up in the morning and I go to practice like everyone else. — Kylian Mbappe
I meditated before I hosted the Oscars, I meditate before I go on stage, I meditate in the morning and lunchtime when I'm on a film set. — Hugh Jackman
When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility. — Eknath Easwaran
I get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much. — Richard Simmons
Today, everything I do from morning meditation on - eating breakfast, going for a walk, writing, reading, even recreation - is governed by one purpose only: how to give the very best account of my life that I can in the service of all. — Eknath Easwaran
Who do you think of first in the morning? Good manipulators do it in the dream plane. The morning practice of meditation increases the aura to ward of negative energy. Meditate before bed if you are being attacked psychically. — Frederick Lenz
Meditation Quotes
With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts. — Mary Pipher
Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. — Buddha
Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed. — Saint Francis de Sales
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality. — Adi Shankara
Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart. — Adi Shankara
To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self.
By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss. — Adi Shankara
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. — Isaac Newton
You are only as young as your spine is flexible. — Joseph Pilates
Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. — Mother Teresa
All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience. — Dennis McKenna
Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable. — Nayef Al-Rodhan
Aromatherapy during sleep increases cognitive capacity by 226% in older adults, an effect thought to be mediated by improved integrity of the prefrontal cortex's uncinate fasciculus, a pathway directly linked to memory. — Rhonda Patrick
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation. — Oliver Sacks
The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology. — Wilhelm Wundt
Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses — Juhani Pallasmaa
The moon is a satellite that was constructed. It was built and anchored outside Earth's atmosphere as a mediating and monitoring device, a supercomputer or eye in the sky. It affects all life forms on this planet, beyond what you can currently grasp. In your history there are references to two moons around earth. — Barbara Marciniak
Start today by practicing constant conversation with God and continual mediation on his Word. Prayer lets you speak to God; mediation lets God speak to you. — Rick Warren
Cinema is a technologically mediated dreamspace, a way to access, a portal to the numinous that unfolded in the fourth dimension, so cinema became sort of a waking dream where we can travel in space and time, where we can travel in mind. This became more than virtual reality, this became a real virtuality. — Jason Silva
What's a mediator you ask? Oh, a person who acts as a liason between the living and the dead. Hey, wait a minute...what're you doing with that strait jacket?-Suze Simon's imagination — Meg Cabot
Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode. — William Styron
Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed. — Hizkias Assefa
Don't ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified savior. — Erwin W. Lutzer
We must look into unknown dimensions, into Nature, into that incalculable and imponderable life, whose carrier and mediator, the blood of the Earth that accompanies us steadfastly from the cradle to the grave, is water. — Viktor Schauberger
I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy. — Jennifer Jason Leigh
It is better to meditate a little bit with depth than to mediate long with the mind running here and there. If you do not make an effort to control the mind it will go on doing as it pleases, no matter how long you sit to meditate. — Paramahansa Yogananda
It will not matter, the pressure I always had it, I was mediated early, I learned to handle it, I got used to it and it’s part of my environment. — Kylian Mbappe
Not till we come to a simple reliance on the blood and mediation of the Saviour, shall we know what it is either to have trust in God, or know what it is to walk before Him without fear, in righteousness and true holiness. — Thomas Chalmers
I believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a great healing and transformative potential, and represent a very important tool for spiritual development. — Stanislav Grof
Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don't strive to become, but be. — Bruce Lee
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. — Buddha
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist. — Ludwig van Beethoven
See here, for our comfort, a sweet agreement of all three persons: the Father giveth a commission to Christ; the Spirit furnisheth and sanctifieth to it; Christ himself executeth the office of a Mediator. Our redemption is founded upon the joint agreement of all three persons of the Trinity. — Richard Sibbes
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it — Mahatma Gandhi
In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul. — Edward Bach
Don't think of us as separate beings. Imagine that we are one body and it's been split into millions. When we sit in the mediation hall - that is unity — Frederick Lenz
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm. — Hippocrates
Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one is simply a pawn on the chessboard. What decides everything is a conscious impersonal energy that sorcerers call intent or the Spirit. — Carlos Castaneda
Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest. — Pantanjali
Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication. — Robert D. Putnam
It's a very teenage idea - this idea that thought is ruined when we give over to television shows and glossy magazines and what they are telling us to do. The alternative, I believe, in is pitiless censorship. Because we owe each other the best effort we can to see one another without that mediation. — John Maus
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the shoulders of the Son of God...Would you, then, see the true demerit of sin?-take the measure of it from the mediation of Christ, especially his cross. — John Owen
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