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“It’s much more powerful and exciting to be grounded in the present moment. Then life is like flowing down a river at the same velocity as the current. We become the flow surrounded by everything we need, and all we have to do is to choose to use what is provided, or choose not to. Life becomes effortless and we expend minimal energy achieving things. When we start thinking or trying to control things, it’s like swimming against the current. And the more we think, or try to control things, the more isolated we become from reality. Living in the thinking mode requires so much more energy than resting in this present moment.”
― Greg Hopkinson, Boundless: A wayward entrepreneur's search for peace

“As we walk out to the street my friend points out a sign on the other side of the road, which instructs people to beware of shelling. The reminders of the Great Patriotic War remain. “During the Nazi siege of Leningrad, one million out of the two million people who lived here died.” She looks at me as if that experience is woven into the very fabric of her being. And yet she would have been born just after the war.

“It amazes me how people can survive in a completely annihilated environment like that. How do they do it?” I ask.

“Hope. We have a saying. Hope is the last thing you lose.”

“I guess that’s right.” If anyone knows about hope it has to be the eternally down-trodden Russian.”
― Greg Hopkinson, Boundless: A wayward entrepreneur's search for peace