Mateo Tabatabai Quotes

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself” —Leo Tolstoy

When you create the rules of the game, it is very easy to win.” —Mateo Tabatabai

Seeing is not believing; believing is seeing. You see things not as they are, but as you are.” —Eric Butterworth

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.'' James Thurber

We are constantly mistaking our subjective interpretations of the world as truth, and it is causing us immense suffering.

Soon you will see that there is no good or bad, only an interpretation of what is. You will realize that your whole experience is based solely on your interpretation of external events that are completely neutral. You will understand that you have nothing figured out and that all the things you thought you knew are only imaginary constructs of your mind. You have so much talent and potential inside you that is not coming through because your mind has imprisoned you.

But I will not change who I am or the expression of my truth because I suspect someone else is not going to like what I am saying. I will not show something I am not because I think that showing that trait will make someone else happy. For me, doing this is being inauthentic.

We have such high levels of automation and we still wonder why we are suffering. We walk around in our robotic states and we don't understand why we don't feel the passion, gratitude and bliss we have always desired.   Your brain is the most powerful piece of machinery here on earth. It can be your greatest helper or your greatest enemy. Whether it is the first or the latter depends on the meanings you have created and are creating at any given point in time.   Most people are running completely outdated and negative beliefs on a machine that was built to innovate, create and explore.

Everyone has his or her own purpose here on Earth, and therefore you can’t judge whether someone is a “loser” or a “winner.

You can skip all of the energy-draining activities you are currently doing in order to feel worthy and just know that you are worthy because you truly are.

Life is nothing but a dance, and you were born to dance.

Today I realize that the question is not whether we are caught in the mind-made prison. The real question is to what degree are we prisoners of our own minds? We are all living in an illusion and mistaking it for reality.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.” —James Thurber

Seeing is not believing; believing is seeing. You see things not as they are, but as you are.'' Eric Butterworth

You have people arguing about whether the lion is really the king of the jungle, and while they are stressing and fussing, the lion is lying somewhere in the savannah enjoying life. The lion doesn’t care whether it is the king, so why do you?

that what you perceive as free will is nothing but an illusion designed to cover up the fact that you are constantly reacting to whatever happens. What you perceive as conscious choice is nothing but an automatic response.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” —Marcus Aurelius

Blame has one function and one function only: to deny responsibility of your present moment because it is too painful to realize you are in fact responsible for the hurt you are feeling. People who are caught

We are all living in an illusion and mistaking it for reality.

Blame has one function and one function only: to deny responsibility of your present moment because it is too painful to realize you are in fact responsible for the hurt you are feeling.

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” —Tuli Kupferberg Playing

It is time to realize that as long as you are living a fairy tale, you might as well be the king or queen who lives happily ever after instead of the peasant who is always suffering.

If there is any one skill in life that could give you infinite happiness, wealth, connection, and self-esteem, it is your ability to create meaning.

If you saw failure as a completely natural part of life and believed that the fastest way to become successful is to get out of your comfort-zone and double your rate of failure, your mind would react very differently. It would even start giving you stories and justifications for why you need to fail more, so you can get more reference points and ultimately succeed faster.