Live Your Truth

by Kamal Ravikant

One: do the work, create the value. Two: draw the people that encourage you closer. They’re the only ones that matter.

Confidence comes from crossing thresholds.

Whatever area you want to increase confidence in your life, cross the threshold. Do it again and again until it is your norm. Then seek out other thresholds.

I was afraid to reach out, to touch him. Love him. Fear is a powerful thing.

he was human. Fallible, full of mistakes, trying to make his way through the world like the rest of us, afraid.

Forgiveness, the key to freedom, followed naturally. I could no longer judge him. He did what he could and he was gone.

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. If you come to it that way, forgiveness for others is not just easy, it’s a way of being.

I think often we try to save the world, to love others, to forgive them. We think it’s others that we need to do something to, something for. The irony is, it’s all a path that ultimately brings us to the one who needs it the most — ourselves.

the only truth is the moment I’m in, this moment, however long it is.

Moment to moment to moment. I won’t succeed most of the time, the gravity of the mind is strong, but whenever I remember the truth, I’m creating something beautiful. A moment where I’m present, where I’m loving myself, nourishing myself.

The irony is that by taking care of myself in this moment, I’m creating a beautiful past for myself as the moment has already passed.

commit.

The commitment is the most important part. Not a promise, but deep and from the heart, there is no going back. You have burned the bridges, sunk the ships behind you. This is the only true thing that matters.

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.

If there is one thing worth working on, it’s the inner self. Regardless of the way that works for you, it is the true path. It is where freedom lies.

Your job is to flow with it. Trust the current. When you relax and go with it, it’s easy. But some people,” he paused,

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

Read up on the regrets of the dying, those in nursing homes. Same, throughout. Not loving enough, doing the shoulds instead of the wants.

The truth in life is, we are born, we exist, then we are gone.

Look behind you. What are you waiting for?

He knew himself. The opinions of another, unless they were truly close to him, didn’t matter.

He had lived life the way he wanted to.

a practice of being conscious. Wake up, get my coffee, then go stand outside and breathe the world in. It is a part of me and I of it.

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.

Desire and commitment are fundamental human qualities as well, available anytime. A reset is as simple as this moment.

Let’s make our time count. Live our best selves. Take the risks, share our dance, belt out our songs. 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.

Prickly thoughts.

You don’t notice them until they lessen.

that’s when you start to hear yourself.

strong feelings and insights physically rising from within your solar plexus up to your head.

Whatever the issue that you were running from, you get the answer.

the insights that we receive when away, they are useless unless we live them.

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.

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...

I’m starting to believe that our experiences are nothing but a series of gifts and the less we resist them, the better things get.