Live Your Truth

by Kamal Ravikant

I cannot emphasize enough the quality of those you surround yourself with.

Creating something of value, expressing yourself to the world — it is risk.

If you’re about to take a risk — one that comes from within, one that expresses your true nature, that brings up fear after fear after fear — you know what to do. One: do the work, create the value. Two: draw the people that encourage you closer. They’re the only ones that matter.

The lesson from crossing a second time: it gets easier.

Confidence comes from crossing thresholds.

Once you’ve done something, made that jump, and even if it didn’t turn out the way you thought it would, you’ve lived and faced fears and are here to tell the tale.

I just focus on making it true, knowing that is all I am required to do.

cross the threshold. Do it again and again until it is your norm. Then seek out other thresholds.

Forgiveness, the key to freedom, followed naturally.

I am human. Here I am, fallible, judging another fallible being through the lenses of the past, through fear. I thought I had to forgive my father to be free. Turns out, I had to forgive myself.

the only truth is the moment I’m in, this moment, however long it is. And then it is the past and I’m on to this moment.

pick something that is important to you. One thing. Look at your belief on it, what you know to be true. Then, as if diving off a board, your feet already in the air, you commit. Sit down, grab a piece of paper, write down what you want to do or be, a vow to yourself. Go all in.

This is the simple secret. Pick something you truly want. Commit. Commit on paper. To yourself. Dive in, do the work.

The things I carry are my thoughts. That’s it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.

“Life is a river,” a wise friend told me. “It’s flowing. You’re never at the same place twice.”

Your job is to flow with it. Trust the current. When you relax and go with it, it’s easy.

“Look behind you, death is near. Look away. Look back again. Death is closer.”

But knowing that one day we will cease, and not knowing whether that is today or a distant tomorrow, that realization is a key to living a fulfilling life.

Let the mind welcome the day. Then, from that place, start.

Just be open, let whatever you feel move through you, live your truth, be your truth, and the light flows in.

A reset is as simple as this moment.

That what we do, even if it’s forgotten after we’re gone, matters while we’re here. That is a life well lived. A fulfilled life.

The beauty of friends, they push you through doors.

I go with it, whatever the moment brings.

The insights we receive when going silent, it’s our gift to ourselves. Returning and living them, sharing them, that is our gift to the world.

Later, I learned that when you’re loving yourself and something in life causes you pain, not to fight it. To feel it. Fully. Let it pass through you. That is loving yourself as well. And on the other side, you come out clutching the gift — an open heart.

Loving yourself, being open, living fully, it’s all a practice. Conscious decisions made and lived each moment.

I promise you that the same stuff galaxies are made of, you are. The same energy that swings planets around stars makes electrons dance in your heart. It is in you, outside you, you are it. It is beautiful. Trust in this. And you and your life will be grand.