Face Your Fears “Go to your fears, sit with them, stare at them. Your fears are your friend, their only job is to show you undeveloped parts of yourself that you need to cultivate to live a happy life. The […]
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Tag: Mindfulness
Winning, Losing, Learning.
Winning, Losing, Learning. “You always learn a lot more when you lose than when you win.” This probably isn’t an African proverb (as if “African” is an appropriate catch-all word for dozens of different cultures). This is age old […]
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Lao Tzu on Priorities
Lao Tzu on Priorities If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. – Lao Tzu
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Persistence
Persistence A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence. – A Daoist Saying.
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Orwell on Truth
Orwell on Truth You probably have seen this one before, but it is worth repeating and worth discussing. “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” – George Orwell This quote […]
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Focusing on the Wrong Problem
Focusing on the Wrong Problem “Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.” How true is this? How often do we end up focusing on the wrong problem. Or maybe not the wrong problem but focusing so much […]
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Melancholy
Melancholy There is melancholy and then there is a melancholy filled with an awareness and appreciation of the vast complexity and expansiveness of reality.
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Epicurus on Happiness
Epicurus on Happiness “We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.” – Epicurus Epicurus is one of the […]
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You Have No Right To be Bored
Seriously, you have no right to be bored. If you feel bored, the fault is yours. Sorry, but it’s true. Stop whining and start living.
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Eyes Are Useless When the Mind is Blind
Eyes Are Useless When the Mind is Blind – Unknown
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