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March 27 - September 10, 2022
we grow through discomfort or insight. But never through apathy.
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both.
The Soul’s Experience on Earth Is Not Meant for Hard Work and Toil. It’s Meant for Freedom, Ease, and Expansion.
Once you are aligned with your true purpose and your soulprint, everything else becomes a lot easier.
The Universe acts as a mirror. It reflects back to you what you are.
When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety; If I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without any pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret in this for anyone who can grasp it.
We a run around like headless chickens after things we are programmed to believe we want. Nice car. Own house. Etc. These may not be our true desires or what we need. When we are in a state of flow what we truly need and desire comes effortlessly
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
Carl jung
Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.
Victor frankl
Your past pain is often the breadcrumbs that will lead you to the meaning, values, and purpose of your life.
Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. —Amy Poehler
Little ideas that tickled, and nagged, and refused to go away should never be ignored, for in them lie the seeds of destiny.
You don’t need to know how to achieve an outcome. Forget knowing HOW. All you need to know is your WHY and WHAT for doing it.
As human beings we tend to overestimate what we can do in one year. But we tend to underestimate what we’re capable of in three years. So always visualize your life three years ahead. And push that limit and dream bigger.
Positive optimism is a stage change—this means it is a wiser, more developed worldview that governs your relationship with the world around you.
Positive optimism is not the rejection of sadness, but the thought, even during sadness, that the future will be okay.
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character Lester Bangs says, “The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you are uncool.”
When you cause others to unleash their greatness you raise the unfuckwithability in yourself. So there are two key components that go into being unfuckwithable: Feeling You’re Enough Creating Your Life as a Unique Masterpiece
if you are in the top quarter in your company in terms of Social Connection Score, you’re 40 percent more likely to get a raise or promotion in the next two years!)
It’s not enough for you to assume people know that you care. You need to show it.
Remember what Don Miguel Ruiz said about being the artist of your own life. To do this, set goals with a mindset that asks the questions: What do I want to experience? How do I want to grow? How do I want to contribute?
The most important thing that our business schools need to teach us is that your work is not about your work. Rather, your work is nothing more than the ultimate vehicle for your personal growth. If your business fails, it doesn’t matter. The question is, how did you GROW? If your business becomes a billion dollars, it doesn’t matter. The question is, how did you GROW?
Growth is a goal in itself. When you understand how you want to grow, you can take responsibility and be the driver of your own growth. You can turn every work opportunity into an experience for becoming a better version of you.
Edmund O’Sullivan is a transformative learning expert at the Transformative Learning Centre in Toronto, Canada. In academic terms he defines a transformational moment in this way: “Transformation involves experiencing a deep, structural shift in the basic premises of thought, feelings, and actions. It is a shift in consciousness that dramatically and irreversibly alters our way of being in the world.“
Rumi said: “Oh ye who can’t take a good rub…how will you ever become a polished gem?”
Neil Gaiman wrote in The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones: I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
Human beings are not smartphones. We own smartphones. We don’t need heads filled with useless
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facts when we all have access to Google. What we need is a head filled with the right wisdom, beliefs, practices, and knowledge to help us deal with the messy, confusing, beautiful aspects of being human itself.
You don’t have to save the world. Just don’t mess it up for the next generation.
Sometimes you have to destroy a part of your life that is merely good, to allow what is truly great to enter.
Remember: Don’t describe what you do today. Describe what you’re going to do in ten years. Be humble and admit that there’s a chance of failure. But talk boldly of what you aim to do.
If we’re too afraid to fail, we don’t try.
What is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told no, we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral. “Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.” And then you’re a player, you don’t want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
The world will reflect to you what you truly, deeply believe you are. Your identity will create resonance with the Universe.
The Soul’s Experience on Earth Is Not Meant for Hard Work and Toil. It’s Meant for Freedom, Ease, and Expansion.
Experiences + Identity = Life Experiences (because goals are meaningless) A new identity, and The sum of all this is Life
