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He said, “Depicting the pope as a sort of Superman, a star, is offensive to me. The pope is a man who laughs, cries, sleeps calmly and has friends like everyone else. A normal person.”
“The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, but that’s normal, because a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.”
“No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.”
“This is the struggle of every person: be free or be a slave.”
“Living together is an art. It’s a patient art, it’s a beautiful art, it’s fascinating.”
Growing competence in a pursuit you love *Strengthening every day the relationships around you *Increasing your freedom of choices
“If we start without confidence, already we have lost half the battle and we bury our talents.”
“To protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love, is to open up a horizon of hope. It is to let a shaft of light break through the heavy clouds; it is to bring the warmth of hope!”
“These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.”
“Francis of Assisi loved, helped and served the needy, the sick and the poor; he also cared greatly for creation.”
“Because before I could tell your son to stop eating sugar, I had to stop eating sugar first.”
Don’t tell people do not do something, if you do it aswell.
Nobody can tell you what to do.
If he was, in fact too busy, then it meant he was not devoting enough time to his spiritual life.
I don’t give any advice on things I don’t know about first hand.
Sugar is bad.
Nothing is more important than the cultivation of yourself.
But once you divide the world into categories, into an “us” versus “them,” then you immediately become the “them” and you lose touch with who you really are.
The only way to do that is to spend long periods of time just being silent.
“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.”
The song “Lose Yourself” is from the movie “8 Mile.”
He said, “Put your hands up and follow me.” Everyone starts putting their hands up without thinking.
“Follow me.” He says, “Look, look.” They are already following him and under his command. So he says, “look,” because he is about to point out the enemy. He is setting up the next cognitive bias.
Showing he is different, making him inferior
A candidate will rarely refer to another candidate by name. Instead, he might say, “My opponent might think X, but we here know that Y is better.”
CREDENTIAL BIAS
“You’re Pac, he’s Pac,” including them with him in associating their lineages with these great rappers.
he points to his opponent, Papa Doc, makes a gesture like his head is being sliced off and says, “You’re Pac, NONE.”
But at the end of the list, there’s no more criticism you can make of him. He’s addressed everything and dismissed them.
When he has nothing to say, the audience, or the sales prospect, will buy from you.
People remember things that are stated humorously more than they remember serious things.
Two more things that separate Papa Doc from the crowd. He’s a nerdy guy who goes to a rich school, and his parents are together. Unlike probably everyone in the audience, including Eminem. No wonder Papa Doc doesn’t live in the 313.
Reduce the supply of yourself while demand is going up and what happens? Basic economics. Value goes up.
He’s going to choose himself to be successful and not rely on the small-time thinking in battles in Detroit.
Doesn’t it seem silly to analyze a rap song for ideas how to be better at sales and communicating?
I had given up on the task of learning how to be a better human. I thought the game was finished and I had won. It’s only when I lost everything that my real learning began.
“Tennis is just a game, family is forever.”
“I’m feeling OK. I’m still not where I want to be at, but I’m definitely feeling better than I was.”
“I think you have to love yourself before you fall in love. I’m still learning to love myself.”
Try it. Do two things at once.
“There’s always something you have to give up for success. Everything comes at a cost. Just what are you willing to pay for it?”
Dreams are in the head. But action creates growth, creates skill, creates excellence.
TURN PAIN INTO ART
It doesn’t matter what it is, whether it’s Buddha or Jesus or Moses or the yoga sutras. Something needs to give us a little bit of hope that there is something better out there than the spider webs gathering in the musky attic of our head.
We all need something to believe in
Every day I wake up and look out the window and say to whatever it is outside of myself, “Help me save a life today.”
LEARN THE HISTORY OF YOUR FIELD
BE FLEXIBLE
Try new things
THERE’S ALWAYS AN OPPORTUNITY
“If it’s not hard, it’s soft.”
If you can’t BLEED or KILL or SLASH YOUR GUTS with your word, then keep it to yourself.
If you can’t change the world, then you know you have to change yourself.
