The wisdom of F.M. Alexander and others.

“Change involves carrying out an activity against the habit of life.”
F.M. Alexander

“You translate everything, whether physical, mental or spiritual, into muscular tension.”
F.M. Alexander

“We can throw away the habit of a lifetime in a few minutes if we use our brains.”
F.M. Alexander

“All the darned fools in the world believe they are actually doing what they think they are doing.”
F.M. Alexander

“You can’t do something you don’t know, if you keep on doing what you do know.”
F.M. Alexander

“Trying is only emphasizing the thing we already know.”
F.M. Alexander

“Everyone is always teaching one what to do, leaving us still doing the things we shouldn’t do.”
F.M. Alexander

“It is not the degree of ‘willing’ or ‘trying’, but the way in which the energy is directed, that is going to make the ‘willing’ or ‘trying’ effective.”
F.M. Alexander

“To know when we are wrong is all that we shall ever know in this world.”
F.M. Alexander

“Everyone wants to be right, but no one stops to consider if their idea of right is right.”
F.M. Alexander

“When people are wrong, the thing which is right is bound to be wrong to them.”
F.M. Alexander

“The things that don’t exist are the most difficult to get rid of.”
F.M. Alexander

“No problem can ever be solved by the same consciousness that created it.”
Albert Einstein

“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”
Gandhi

“Without control of our use of ourselves, our use of other things is blind; it may lead to anything.”
John Dewey

“Practice non-doing, and everything will fall into place.”
Lao-tzu

“Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change them self.”
Tolstoy

“…we are all responsible for how our energies are directed, whether we are we are conscious of it or not…”
John Nicholls

“No man can reveal aught to you but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
Kahlil Gibran

“ You can fight gravity all you want, or move with it. But if you fight it, eventually you learn that you lose every time.”
Evan Plake

“Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop.”
Early Zen scripture (anonymous)