But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning … - Benjamin Lee Whorf

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I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.

Benjamin Lee Whorf

But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.

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Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

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Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

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Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support, you describe your life in negative terms you will find that this will reinforce your mind's negative emotions and make you unhappy and even more susceptible to feeling unhappy in the future. By simply doing the reverse and focusing on why you are lucky and grateful things are not worse, you will strengthen and increase your mind's positive emotions and make yourself happy and even more likely to feel happy in the future.

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We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

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A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.

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