5 Quotes & Sayings By F David Peat

F. David Peat is the author of over 30 books, including The Hidden Power of Self-Esteem , How to Get Out of Debt , and the newly released The Simple Path to Wealth . Mr. Peat is a world-renowned expert on the psychology of money and success, an eight-time best-selling author, and the keynote speaker at many international events Read more

He holds an M.S. in Management from Pace University, an M.B.A. from New York University, and a Ph.D.

in Organizational Behavior from Columbia University. He has been featured on CBS This Morning, Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNN's Headline News, ABC News Nightline, and Forbes Magazine's "Best of the Web" list for his website selfesteemmovement.com .

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But if the individual is to sacrifice a measure of personal liberty within the social contract, then individual rights must be guaranteed by law. Thus, it has been said that, in law, rights are the fence an individual erects around himself for protection against his neighbors. How absurd such a posture must seem from a worldview in which the individual emerges out of the society, rather than the other way around. F. David Peat
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Disease is a manifestation of human thought because it is ideas, worldviews, and beliefs that create the conditions in which a society can be riddled with disease, strife, and poverty, or can continue in health and harmony. F. David Peat
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If you happen to hold that human consciousness is no more than the epiphenomenon, or secretion, of our individual brains then you are more or less trapped in your own skull. But if consciousness is open, if it can partake in a more global form of being, if it can merge with the natural world and with other beings, then, indeed, it may be possible to drop, for a time, the constraints of one's personal worldview and see reality through the eyes of others. F. David Peat
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One thought follows on the other, they are not distinct objects with clear boundaries; rather, one thought anticipates the next and thereby contains it. The thought that comes afterward contains the memory or trace of the former. Thus, the movement of thought within the mind requires a mathematics of implicate forms. F. David Peat