What We Achieve Inwardly Will Change Outer Reality

„What we reach inwardly will change outer reality."

Last update Nov. 2, 2021.

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„The change is from inner to outer."

— Bruce Lee Hong Kong-American actor, martial creative person, philosopher and filmmaker 1940 - 1973

We start past dissolving our mental attitude not past altering outer weather condition.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 120

„Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

— William James American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist 1842 - 1910

"Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and go the builder of his destiny." Actually said by Spencer Westward. Kimball, twelfth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in his Phenomenon of Forgiveness (1969), p. 114. This predates any of the misquotations.
Other forms: "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human being beings tin can modify their lives past altering their attitudes of heed." This is also misattributed to Albert Schweitzer.
James did say: "As life goes on, there is a constant change of our interests, and a consequent change of identify in our systems of ideas, from more central to more peripheral, and from more peripheral to more key parts of consciousness."
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Context: Man alone, of all the creatures on earth, tin can change his own patterns. Man solitary is the architect of his destiny. The greatest revolution in our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, tin change the outer aspects of their lives … It is too bad that about people will not accept this tremendous discovery and begin living it.