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We find ourselves thinking: “Is this all there is?” because we forget that everything is transitory, and no one single instance can summarize the whole. There is nowhere to “arrive” to. The only thing you’re rushing toward is death. Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.
Not wanting to do something would make you feel indifferent about it. Fear = interest.
Your habits create your mood, and your mood is a filter through which you experience your life.
An untamed mind is a minefield.
A lack of routine is just a breeding ground for perpetual procrastination.
They are not stuck in the illusion that “happiness” is a sustained state of joy. They allow themselves time to process everything they are experiencing. They allow themselves to exist in their natural state. In that non-resistance, they find contentment.
If you could talk to your younger self, you would be able to say: “We did it, we made it out, we survived that terrible thing.”
Anxiety builds in our idle hours. Fear and resistance thrive when we’re avoiding the work.
Everything is hard; it’s just a matter of what you think is worth the effort.
How complicated the questions are; how simple the answers turn out to be.
