Projection Quotes

• A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

  Pam Brown

  Beautiful, Dream, Horse

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• By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside.

  Baba Hari Dass

  Running, World, Problem

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• Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

  Carl Jung

  Shadow, World, Faces

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• What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Reality, Suffering Of Others, Personal Opinions

  "The Four Agreements". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Political

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• Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.

  Merrit Malloy

  People, Gossip, Irony

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• When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Reflection, Thinking

  Byron Katie (2010). “Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)”, p.329, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY. NOTHINGS OTHERS DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU. WHAT OTHERS SAY AND DO IS A PROJECTION OF THEIR OWN REALITY, THEIR OWN DREAM. WHEN YOU ARE IMMUNE TO THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS, YOU WON'T BE THE VICTIM OF NEEDLESS SUFFERING.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream

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• The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Soul, Youth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.99, Library of America

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• Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

  Billy Corgan

  Criticism, Compliment, Form

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• How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.

  Grace Metalious

  Hate, Men, Easy

  Grace Metalious (2011). “Peyton Place”, p.281, UPNE

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• we have become masters of projection—pushing the responsibility for our own thoughts outward so that the consequences of our thoughts become someone else's problem.

  Darren Main

  Responsibility, Pushing, Problem

  Darren Main (2003). “Inner Tranquility: A Guide to Seated Meditation: 3rd Edition”, p.21, BookBaby

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• It’s your own expectations that hurt you. Not the world you live in. Whatever happens in the world is real. What you think should happen is unreal. So people are hurt by their expectations. You know , you’re not disappointed by the world, you are disappointed by your own projections.

  Jacque Fresco

  Life, Hurt, Disappointment

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• When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Suffering Of Others, Personal Opinions, Development

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.

  Connie Zweig

  Shadow, Failing, Disguise

  Connie Zweig, Steven Wolf (2009). “Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life”, p.40, Wellspring/Ballantine

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• Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth.

  Mooji

  Ego, Seems

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• I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Genuine Concern, Rights

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• Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

  Laurette Taylor

  Emotional, Acting, Physical Attraction

  "The Quality You Need Most". Green Book Magazine, April 1914.

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• Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self, Ideas, People

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• What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.

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  Ram Dass

  Levels, Evolution, Be Here Now

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.215, Harmony

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• It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else. Nothing has a more diverse and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.

  Carl Jung

  Responsibility, Opposites, Evil

  "The Undiscovered Self".

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• Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.

  Dallas Willard

  Blessing

  Dallas Willard (2014). “Living in Christ's Presence: Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of God”, p.164, InterVarsity Press

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• Stop all physical activity and sit naturally at ease. Remain silent and let sound be like an echo. Do not think about anything look at experience beyond thought; open minded like space. Let go of control and stop and rest at ease in that state. Awareness without projection is the greatest meditation. Train and develop like this and you will come to the deepest awakening.

  Tilopa

  Letting Go, Thinking, Echoes

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• Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

  Carl Jung

  Brave, Shadow, Enough

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• Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Keys, Feelings, Perception

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