Seth Quotes

People claim that love is the deepest feeling, but don't you believe it. Loneliness is the most affecting of human emotions. Nothing makes life more vivid. If you wish to live in the moment, I recommend intense loneliness.

Do not personally give any more conscious consideration, either of you, to events that you do not want to happen. Any such concentration, to whatever degree, ties you in with those probabilities, so concentrate upon what you want, and as far as public events are concerned, take it for granted that sometimes even men are wiser than they know.

The linchpin is an individual who can walk into chaos and create order, someone who can invent, connect, create, and make things happen. Every worthwhile institution has indispensable people who make differences like these.

The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done.

We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed as a result. Maybe we'll soon find out that the self isn't "flat" either, and that death is as real and yet as deceptive as the horizon; that we don't fall out of life either.

When you do not know what to do, relax and tell yourself that other portions of yourself do know; they will take over. Give yourself some rest. Remind yourself that in many ways you are a very successful person as you are. Success does not necessarily involve great intellect or great position or great wealth; it has to do with inner integrity. Remember that.

You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas.

The miracle of your being cannot escape itself. Your thoughts blossom into events. Your beliefs grow as surely in time and space as flowers do.

It’s better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo.

We see what we believe, not the other way around.

Your turn Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do that.

My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color.

We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next mortgage payment is due. Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it … Art isn’t about the rush of victory that comes from being picked. Nor does it involve compliance. Art in the post-industrial age is a lifelong habit, a stepwise process that incrementally allows us to create more art.

We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.

Stop advertising and start innovating.

While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.

The dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him.

The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship.

Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.

The most I can do is to acquaint you with the authority of your own psyche - to give you a trust in the nature of your being. For, if you trust what you are, you can never go wrong in whatever terms you use. You can fly through belief systems as a butterfly flies through back yards.

Giving your team cover for their cowardice is foolish. Give them a platform for bravery instead.

If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own, if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment, then you weaken your position and weaken the position, of those you think you are helping. You look about you and you see only hopelessness and helplessness. You organize your reality according to the tragedies of the newspapers!

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.

On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough.

You are given the gift of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs; yours is the creative energy that makes your world; there are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.

As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring.

Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment.

There is no other way to change your physical reality but by changing your thoughts.

Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.

If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer.

Micro trends matter more than macro ones, but most of all, people matter. Individual human beings with names and wants and interests.

Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.

Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.

In a world of free, everyone can play.

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.

Cosmo Girl with a passion for fashion and a magic flask.

It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be better off turning the entire rational approach upside down, taking it for granted that all of its assumptions were false, for they are indeed more false than true.

In basic terms, civilization is dependent upon the spontaneity and fulfillment of the individual. Your civilization is in sad straits. Not because you are allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you are denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise.

Take a chance on your own abilities clearly, neither exaggerating them nor under-assessing them.

If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.

It is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behavior at any given time.

Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings toward action, rising from that deep inner knowledge of yourself that you have in dreams.

If there was ever a moment to follow your passion and do work that matters, this is it.

It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny.

Remarkable marketing is the art of building things worth noticing right into your product or service. Not slapping on marketing as a last-minute add-on, but understanding that if your offering itself isn’t remarkable, it’s invisible.

I come here because it is fun. I have fun when I come here. I do not come here because I feel that I have any great responsibility for your beings or welfare. Who am I to set myself against the innate wisdom of your own individual being, or to take upon my invisible shoulders the great privilege or joyful responsibility for your behavior and destiny?

The people who successfully start independent businesses (franchises, I think are a different thing) do it because we have no real choice in the matter. The voice in our heads won't shut up until we discover if we're right, if we can do it, if we can make something happen. This is an art, our art, and to leave it bottled up is a crime.