Optimists tend to be more stress-hardy, more happy, draw less illnesses and live longer.
Pessimists tend to be much less happy, draw more illnesses and die earlier.

The founder of Positive psychology Dr. Martin Seligman distinguishes pessimism and optimism by differentiating the attributional styles of people.

Selfabsorbed pessimists take life's challenges [job loss, disease, divorce] as a personal, pervasive, permanent threat (the 3 Ps).
- They take difficult situations in life as personal.
- They see problems as pervasive.
- They see their problems as permanent. ["It is never going to change.]

Realistic optimists take life's challenges more stress hardy by seeing them as possibilities for change for the better.
- They see things realistically as a challenge for ingenuity and change.
- They keep a sense of sovereignity – in areas where they (still) have it.
- They have a commitment to a world view that expands possibilities.

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Was in einem schwachen Feld eine Möglichkeit ist,
wird in einem stärkeren Feld zur Wahrscheinlichkeit
und in einem Feld der Unendlichen Macht (wie etwa der Göttlichkeit) zur Gewissheit.
Dr. David R. Hawkins, FU Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man, Kapitel 3, Inhalt und Kontext, S. 68

In den Experimenten über Atomvorgänge haben wir mit Dingen und Tatsachen zu tun, mit Erscheinungen, die ebenso wirklich sind wie irgendwelche Erscheinungen im täglichen Leben. Aber die Atome oder die Elementarteilchen sind nicht ebenso wirklich. Sie bilden eher eine Welt von Tendenzen und Möglichkeiten als eine von Dingen und Tatsachen. Werner Heisenberg [BW 485] (1901-1976) deutscher theoretischer Physiker, Entwickler der Heisenbergschen Unschärferelation, 1927, Physiknobelpreisträger, 1932, Physik und Philosophie

Mit der Unbestimmtheitsrelation wird behauptet, dass es, wenn man bis zu den Atomen absteigt, eine solche objektive Welt in Raum und Zeit gar nicht gibt und dass die mathematischen Symbole der theoretischen Physik nur das Mögliche, nicht das Faktische abbilden Werner Heisenberg [BW 485] (1901-1976) deutscher theoretischer Physiker, Entwickler der Heisenbergschen Unschärferelation, 1927, Physiknobelpreisträger, 1932, Der Teil und das Ganze. Gespräche im Umkreis der Atomphysik, S. 100, Piper Taschenbuch, München, 8. Auflage, August 1996

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Lösungsstau angesichts der „Rechtfertigung Gottes“

Theodizee-Paradoxons¹

Das Böse ist die „unmögliche Möglichkeit. Karl Barth ['Kirchenvater des 20. Jahrhunderts'] (1886-1968) Schweizer evangelisch-reformierter Theologe
Barth führt aus, dass der Mensch nicht dazu berechtigt sei, Gott für die Existenz des Bösen anzuklagen.

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As I do these things, so shall ye do them, and greater things. John 14, 12 (NT)

Within a certain context and to a certain degree all things are possible. At the same time they are not. […] It's the error of mixing levels. […] You can walk on water at this level, if you try it on that level you are drowned. What's true at one level is not true on another level. […]
You see what applies to the abstract level may not necessarily apply to the concrete. […] It is true but only within a certain context. [Limitations are humanness, protoplasm, gender, age, space and time.] Dr. David R. Hawkins, Sedona Seminar Advaita. The Way to God through Mind, 3 DVD set, August 2002

The field is invisible, all encompassing, without space and time, forever and always present, the infinite. The human mind cannot conceive it. It is exquisitely gentle and powerful. The field is infinitely powerful, like a giant electromagnetic field with no ending. The field is so powerful that it includes all potentialities. Within the field, potentiality is actualized by intention. Karma is innate potentiality. If you continuously hold a thought, it will become happening. Otherwise no one would become enlightened. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Sedona Seminar Witnessing and Observing, DVD 1 of 3, opening lines, 16. October 2004

As the potentiality begins to manifest, the ego instantly takes credit for it. There’s no inner, separate, personal self making anything happen. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Sedona Seminar Witnessing and Observing, 3 DVD set, 16. October 2004

Potentiality becomes actuality when conditions are favorable. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Sedona Seminar Vision, 3 DVD set, 25. February 2005

The fact that you are created as a human is subject to the laws / karma of protoplasm. […] You can control, you can transcend things within a certain context. […] Within a certain context and to a certain degree all things are possible. At the same time they are not. […] It's the error of mixing levels. […] You can walk on water at this level, if you try it on that level you are drowned. What's true at one level is not true on another level. […] The spiritual sophistication is the discernment of levels. At the [consciousness] level of 600 you stop mixing levels. […]
You see what applies to the abstract level may not necessarily apply to the concrete. […] It is true but only within a certain context. [Limitations are humanness, protoplasm, gender, age, space and time.]
[…] Your capacity to control or change things is quite limited actually. On the one hand the miraculous is possible and yet at the same time you're not really limited either. They seem like conflicting statements, but actually they are not. They are two different contexts. Dr. David Hawkins, Sedona Satsang Q&A, 2 CD set, audio sample, 7. January 2009

The present is pregnant with the possible. Erich Fromm (1900-1980) German American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher

The three laws of prediction
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is probably very wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishible from magic.

Sir Arthur C. Clarke CBE, FRAS (1917-2008) British science fiction author, inventor, futurist, Profiles of the Future. An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible, essay Hazards of Prophecy. The Failure of Imagination, originally published 1962, Phoenix (The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), new revised edition, 14. Dezember 2000
Wikipedia; Clarke's three laws of prediction

Short version of The three laws of prediction
1. "It's completely impossible — don't waste my time";
2. "It's possible, but it's not worth doing";
3. "I said it was a good idea all along."

The average is indicative of a trend, not of a necessity or of a universal truth. Often, it is those outside the norm, the exceptional ones, who point to the truth of what is possible. Tal Ben-Shahar, Ph.D. US American organizational behaviorist, writer, lecturer on Positive Psychology in Harvard University, IDC, Herzliya, Israel, Happier. Learn the secrets of daily joy and lasting fulfillment, pg. 138, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2007

Strive for the impossible. That is where the new will emerge. Nicanor Perlas III (*1950) Filipino activist, recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, 2003

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. Robert Heinlein (1907-1988) US American science fiction writer

Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it. Chinese proverb

Lead, follow or get out of the way. Expression in the US American Air Force

If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate. Steven Wright (*1955) US American comedian, actor, writer

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It is impossible...

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It is impossible to make others see where they have made a mistake.
It is impossible to be carried to a secure and peaceful harbor on a ship
crafted by anxiety or fueled by fearful feelings.
It is impossible to gain real happiness at the expense of someone else's pain.
It is impossible to genuinely elevate yourself by pushing another person lower.
It is impossible to take advantage of others without living in secret fear of them.
It is impossible to realize the fulfillment of the Divine as long as we remain
filled with ourselves.
It is impossible to rise above any fear or worry whose root we have not found,
uncovered, and removed from our own present misunderstanding.
It is impossible to receive forgiveness in life without having learned what
it means to freely forgive.
It is impossible to wish another person any kind of ill, for any reason,
and not be made sick ourselves.
It is impossible to resist or hate any condition in life and
learn from it at the same time.

Guy Finley

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Literatur

Stanislav Grof, Impossible. Wenn Unglaubliches passiert. Das Abenteuer außergewöhnlicher Bewusstseinserfahrungen, Kösel Verlag, Februar 2008

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Sir Arthur C. Clarke CBE, FRAS (1917-2008) British science fiction author, inventor, futurist, Profiles of the Future. An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible, essay Hazards of Prophecy. The Failure of Imagination, originally published 1962, Phoenix (The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), new revised edition, 14. Dezember 2000
Wikipedia; Clarke's three laws of prediction
Stanislav Grof, Czech US American transpersonal psychologist, consciousness researcher, When the Impossible Happens. Adventures in Non-Ordinary Reality, Sounds True, Incorporated, 1. April 2005
Auriela McCarthy, The Power of the Possible. A Book of Hope and Inspiration, Beaufort Books, Inc., 31. January 2008

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Mark Victor Hansen, America's Ambassador of Possibility

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Audiointerview mit Dr. Christoph Quarch, Philosoph und Theologe, Mit dem Schrecken davongekommen. Gerade noch mal gut gegangen! – Geschichten von unglaublichen Lösungen in letzter Sekunde, Gastgeberin Bergit Fesenfeld & Ruth Schulz, Sendung LebensArt – Hörer im Gespräch, Hörfunk WDR 5, 15. Dezember 2010

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