Tom Barrett Quotes (7 quotations)
1. Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. - Tom Barrett
2. If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain? - Tom Barrett
3. It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes. - Tom Barrett
4. Prophets, it doesn't matter from which tradition, always predict bad times before the dawning of a new age. Why is that? Because that's the way the world works. It takes a period of social instability to stir things up before a new homeostasis, a new order of balance, will fall into place. Otherwise conditions tend to stay the same. We select out of the chaos that which we love. If we want peace, which we will after times of war, we select peace. If we want freedom, which we will after times of oppression, we select freedom. What we love is what we draw out of chaos. - Tom Barrett
5. So much pain and confusion comes from trying to fit the big world of experience into the little boxes of our intellect. When we are attached to our beliefs of how we should act, who we should be, and how the world should do its thing, we are in for plenty of disappointment, frustration and anger. How different it would be to respond spontaneously to a world not quite understood, but experienced freshly at each moment. - Tom Barrett
6. The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment. - Tom Barrett
7. The world is full of these seemingly random processes that, if examined carefully, show order in chaos. A flock of birds may dart this way or that. The directions seem randomly chosen, but in the end, all of the birds land on the branches of the same tree. They are not scattered all over the landscape thudding into the ground at random trajectories and velocities. Out of the chaos comes order. - Tom Barrett
2. If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain? - Tom Barrett
3. It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes. - Tom Barrett
4. Prophets, it doesn't matter from which tradition, always predict bad times before the dawning of a new age. Why is that? Because that's the way the world works. It takes a period of social instability to stir things up before a new homeostasis, a new order of balance, will fall into place. Otherwise conditions tend to stay the same. We select out of the chaos that which we love. If we want peace, which we will after times of war, we select peace. If we want freedom, which we will after times of oppression, we select freedom. What we love is what we draw out of chaos. - Tom Barrett
5. So much pain and confusion comes from trying to fit the big world of experience into the little boxes of our intellect. When we are attached to our beliefs of how we should act, who we should be, and how the world should do its thing, we are in for plenty of disappointment, frustration and anger. How different it would be to respond spontaneously to a world not quite understood, but experienced freshly at each moment. - Tom Barrett
6. The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment. - Tom Barrett
7. The world is full of these seemingly random processes that, if examined carefully, show order in chaos. A flock of birds may dart this way or that. The directions seem randomly chosen, but in the end, all of the birds land on the branches of the same tree. They are not scattered all over the landscape thudding into the ground at random trajectories and velocities. Out of the chaos comes order. - Tom Barrett
