My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants.
Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem.
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
When you are a part of a world that is within an enclosed system, the biggest threat is that the loss of contact with any voice from the outside - a point of reference that is different from you - becomes habitual. The loss of this reference makes the enclosed system seem perfect. I can still feel this kind of threat today, the voice that gives legitimacy to various kinds of enclosure.
One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
I always write the same way. I always write with a yellow pad and a ballpoint pen on my bed. And then I go and type it up afterwards. I've always done that. Those things become habitual.
When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.
It is only your habitual late riser who takes in the full flavor of Nature at those rare intervals when he gets up to go afishing. He brings virginal emotions and unsatiated eyes to the sparkling freshness of earth and stream and sky.
Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
I truly believe that many of the fears we have are unnecessary. It is something we've been taught. It has been programmed into us. It's just a habitual thinking pattern, and it can be changed.
Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.
Change your habitual questions and change your destiny!
It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.
Every action is self-perpetuating, every thought is self-perpetuating. Once you cooperate with it, you are giving energy to it. Sooner or later it will become habitual. You will do it and you will not be the doer; you will do it just because of the force of habit.
