If the way ahead is clear, you’re on someone else’s path.
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits the world — Ray Kurzwell
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer — Rilke
“I’ve never met a person who looked down on others and unconditionally accepted themselves.” —Shani
-experiences shape us and we shape our experiences
-the answers to some of the most complicated problems in the world lie in the simplest of human actions
-there is eternal beauty in trying to find truth, in risking everything you got for what’s right
-the world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. it cannot be changed without changing our thinking AE
-emotions are neither the enemy nor a luxury but a source of wisdom LF
-people can only meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves
-there is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so
-the unknown is where all outcomes are possible
-your perception of me is a reflection of you, my reaction to you is an awareness of me
-old ways won’t open new doors
-we are alive just as nature exists: to be here, to be beautiful and strange
-meaning doesn’t depend on time, your experience of meaning depends on the quality of your attention
-we are all in this common circumstance of impermanence together
“All addictions are a low-level search for God.” -Carl Jung
Not everything requires your reaction, silence is a response too
It is the past layered onto the present that gives it meaning
There are a million Paths in this world, Lindon, but any sage will tell you they can all be reduced to one. Improve yourself — will wight
“self-esteem has a way of showing through the eyes. It’s a look of containment as opposed to leakiness. The gaze is whole onto itself, steady, warm, deeply aware, heartfelt, and here. It reflects an embodied sense of alignment. The system generates and feeds on its own energy. A leaky gaze is characterized by energy pouring into different directions. There’s a desire for exchange, a feeding, or a forcefulness to convey a certain idea rooted in the future or past. It doesn’t feel fully here. The machinery underneath is not integral and thus requires energy from external sources as it sputters to survive. “ - Patricia Mou
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” —Marcus Aurelius
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. - Steve Jobs
Happiness isn’t having what you want, it’s wanting what you have
People never rise above the opinion of themselves
“The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act.” – Tara Ploughman
Psychology says no matter how good you are, people will judge you according to their own insecurities
Surround yourself with people who are free in ways you’re not.
The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be; otherwise, you will be forced to relive the past again and again. - Ekhart Tolle
There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in
No one ever tells you that bravery feels like fear -Mary Kate Teske
Three things you can’t buy: A calm mind, a fit body, a home full of love.
Self compassion is the antidote to shame, the gateway to growth
“Talk only either leads to action, or substitutes for action”
“Everything happens for a reason” → “we can give reason to everything that happens”
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To suffer before it is necessary is to suffer more than is necessary. —Seneca
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Most hard work is a form of laziness. The real hard work is in finding a way to make it easy. —James Pierce
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Does the amount of attention I’m giving this match its importance? —James Clear
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There is no value in winning when the game doesn’t matter to you.
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We create our own stress due to our perception of what we must do.
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Compete with yourself—not with others. There will always be someone with more.
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The smartest people I’ve met: They retrain their minds to enjoy being wrong.
“In a year from now, you will regret not having started today.”
- Karen Lamb
You can be twice as rich by deciding you need half as much
- Sahil Lavingia
We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their actions
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
- The Serenity Prayer
Economically, a startup is best seen not as a way to get rich, but as a way to work faster. You have to make a living, and a startup is a way to get that done quickly, instead of letting it drag on through your whole life. – Paul Graham
And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want, what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?
A rising tide lifts all boats.
“You can’t go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
- CS Lewis
“We are not determined by our experiences, but the meaning we give them is self-determining.”
- Alfred Adler
“Focusing means saying no.”
- Steve Jobs
“Change breaks the brittle.” – Jan Houtema
“The recipe for success for founders is to simply to be relentlessly resourceful. For big companies, it is longer and messier, involving some combination of resourcefulness, obedience, and building alliances.”
- Paul Graham
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.” – Einstein
“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”
- Buddha
No raindrop feels responsible for the flood.
The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. It’s to set your goal too low and reach it.
“Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.” – Brian Eno
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard
“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.” – Niels Bohr
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work.” – John Gall
“If we chose always to be wise we should rarely need to be virtuous. But inclinations which we could easily overcome irresistibly attract us. We give in to slight temptations and minimize the danger. We fall insensibly into dangerous situations, from which we could easily have safeguarded ourselves, but from which we cannot withdraw without heroic efforts which appall us. So finally, as we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: ‘I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because I made you strong enough not to fall in.’” – Rousseau, Confessions, Cohen trans.