I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,
starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking
for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly
connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking
in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating
across the tops of cities contemplating jazz,
who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw
Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs
illuminated,
who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes
hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the
scholars of war,
who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing
obscene odes on the windows of the skull,
who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their
money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through
the wall,
who got busted in their pubic beards returning through Laredo
with a belt of marijuana for New York,
who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in Paradise
Alley, death, or purgatoried their torsos night after night
with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and
cock and endless balls,
incomparable blind streets of shuddering cloud and lightning in
the mind leaping toward poles of Canada & Paterson,
illuminating all the motionless world of Time between,
Peyote solidities of halls, backyard green tree cemetery dawns,
wine drunkenness over the rooftops, storefront boroughs of
teahead joyride neon blinking traffic light, sun and moon
and tree vibrations in the roaring winter dusks of Brooklyn,
ashcan rantings and kind king light of mind,
who chained themselves to subways for the endless ride from
Battery to holy Bronx on benzedrine until the noise of
wheels and children brought them down shuddering
mouth-wracked and battered bleak of brain all drained of
brilliance in the drear light of Zoo,
who sank all night in submarine light of Bickford’s floated out
and sat through the stale beer afternoon in desolate
Fugazzi’s, listening to the crack of doom on the hydrogen
jukebox,
who talked continuously seventy hours from park to pad to bar to
Bellevue to museum to the Brooklyn Bridge,
a lost battalion of platonic conversationalists jumping down the
stoops off fire escapes off windowsills of Empire State out
of the moon,
yacketayakking screaming vomiting whispering facts and
memories and anecdotes and eyeball kicks and shocks of
hospitals and jails and wars,
whole intellects disgorged in total recall for seven days and
nights with brilliant eyes, meat for the Synagogue cast on
the pavement,
who vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey leaving a trail of
ambiguous picture postcards of Atlantic City Hall,
suffering Eastern sweats and Tangerian bone-grindings and
migraines of China under junk-withdrawal in Newark’s bleak
furnished room,
who wandered around and around at midnight in the railroad
yard wondering where to go, and went, leaving no broken
hearts,
who lit cigarettes in boxcars boxcars boxcars racketing
through snow toward lonesome farms in grandfather night,
who studied Plotinus Poe St. John of the Cross telepathy and
bop kabbalah because the cosmos instinctively vibrated at
their feet in Kansas, who loned it through the streets of
Idaho seeking visionary indian angels who were visionary
indian angels,
who thought they were only mad when Baltimore gleamed in
supernatural ecstasy,
who jumped in limousines with the Chinaman of Oklahoma on
the impulse of winter midnight streetlight smalltown rain,
who lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston seeking jazz
or sex or soup, and followed the brilliant Spaniard to
converse about America and Eternity, a hopeless task, and
so took ship to Africa,
who disappeared into the volcanoes of Mexico leaving behind
nothing but the shadow of dungarees and the lava and ash of
poetry scattered in fireplace Chicago,
who reappeared on the West Coast investigating the FBI in
beards and shorts with big pacifist eyes sexy in their dark
skin passing out incomprehensible leaflets,
who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the
narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism,
who distributed Supercommunist pamphlets in Union Square
weeping and undressing while the sirens of Los Alamos
wailed them down, and wailed down Wall, and the Staten
Island ferry also wailed,
who broke down crying in white gymnasiums naked and
trembling before the machinery of other skeletons,
who bit detectives in the neck and shrieked with delight in
policecars for committing no crime but their own wild
cooking pederasty and intoxication,
who howled on their knees in the subway and were dragged off
the roof waving genitals and manuscripts,
who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists,
and screamed with joy,
who blew and were blown by those human seraphim, the sailors,
caresses of Atlantic and Caribbean love,
who balled in the morning in the evenings in rosegardens and
the grass of public parks and cemeteries scattering their
semen freely to whomever come who may,
who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob
behind a partition in a Turkish Bath when the blond & naked
angel came to pierce them with a sword,
who lost their loveboys to the three old shrews of fate the one
eyed shrew of the heterosexual dollar the one eyed shrew
that winks out of the womb and the one eyed shrew that does
nothing but sit on her ass and snip the intellectual golden
threads of the craftsman’s loom.
who copulated ecstatic and insatiate with a bottle of beer a
sweetheart a package of cigarettes a candle and fell off the
bed, and continued along the floor and down the hall and
ended fainting on the wall with a vision of ultimate cunt
and come eluding the last gyzym of consciousness,
who sweetened the snatches of a million girls trembling in the
sunset, and were red eyed in the morning but prepared to
sweeten the snatch of the sunrise, flashing buttocks under
barns and naked in the lake,
who went out whoring through Colorado in myriad stolen
night-cars, N.C., secret hero of these poems, cocksman and
Adonis of Denver--joy to the memory of his innumerable lays
of girls in empty lots & diner backyards, moviehouses’
rickety rows, on mountaintops in caves or with gaunt
waitresses in familiar roadside lonely petticoat upliftings
& especially secret gas-station solipsisms of johns, &
hometown alleys too,
who faded out in vast sordid movies, were shifted in dreams,
woke on a sudden Manhattan, and picked themselves up out
of basements hungover with heartless Tokay and horrors of
Third Avenue iron dreams & stumbled to unemployment
offices,
who walked all night with their shoes full of blood on the
snowbank docks waiting for a door in the East River to open
to a room full of steamheat and opium,
who created great suicidal dramas on the apartment cliff-banks of
the Hudson under the wartime blue floodlight of the moon &
their heads shall be crowned with laurel in oblivion,
who ate the lamb stew of the imagination or digested the crab at
the muddy bottom of the rivers of Bowery,
who wept at the romance of the streets with their pushcarts full
of onions and bad music,
who sat in boxes breathing in the darkness under the bridge, and
rose up to build harpsichords in their lofts,
who coughed on the sixth floor of Harlem crowned with flame
under the tubercular sky surrounded by orange crates of
theology,
who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations
which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish,
who cooked rotten animals lung heart feet tail borsht & tortillas
dreaming of the pure vegetable kingdom,
who plunged themselves under meat trucks looking for an egg,
who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for
Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads
every day for the next decade,
who cut their wrists three times successively unsuccessfully, gave
up and were forced to open antique stores where they thought
they were growing old and cried,
who were burned alive in their innocent flannel suits on Madison
Avenue amid blasts of leaden verse & the tanked-up clatter of
the iron regiments of fashion & the nitroglycerine shrieks of
the fairies of advertising & the mustard gas of sinister
intelligent editors, or were run down by the drunken taxicabs
of Absolute Reality,
who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge this actually happened and
walked away unknown and forgotten into the ghostly daze of
Chinatown soup alleyways & firetrucks, not even one free
beer,
who sang out of their windows in despair, fell out of the subway
window, jumped in the filthy Passaic, leaped on negroes, cried
all over the street, danced on broken wineglasses barefoot
smashed phonograph records of nostalgic European 1930s
German jazz finished the whiskey and threw up groaning into
the bloody toilet, moans in their ears and the blast of
colossal steamwhistles,
who barreled down the highways of the past journeying to the
each other’s hotrod-Golgotha jail-solitude watch or
Birmingham jazz incarnation, who drove crosscountry
seventytwo hours to find out if I had a vision or you had
a vision or he had a vision to find out Eternity,
who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to
Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver &
brooded & loned in Denver and finally went away to find
out the Time, & now Denver is lonesome for her heroes,
who fell on their knees in hopeless cathedrals praying for each
other’s salvation and light and breasts, until the soul
illuminated its hair for a second,
who crashed through their minds in jail waiting for impossible
criminals with golden heads and the charm of reality in their
hearts who sang sweet blues to Alcatraz,
who retired to Mexico to cultivate a habit, or Rocky Mount to
tender Buddha or Tangiers to boys or Southern Pacific to the
black locomotive or Harvard to Narcissus to Woodlawn to the
daisychain or grave,
who demanded sanity trials accusing the radio of hypnotism &
were left with their insanity & their hands & a hung jury,
who threw potato salad at CCNY lecturers on Dadaism and
subsequently presented themselves on the granite steps of
the madhouse with shaven heads and harlequin speech of
suicide, demanding instantaneous lobotomy,
and who were given instead the concrete void of insulin Metrazol
electricity hydrotherapy psychotherapy occupational therapy
pingpong & amnesia,
who in humorless protest overturned only one symbolic pingpong
table, resting briefly in catatonia,
returning years later truly bald except for a wig of blood, and
tears and fingers, to the visible madman doom of the wards of
the madtowns of the East,
Pilgrim State’s Rockland’s and Greystone’s foetid halls, bickering
with the echoes of the soul, rocking and rolling in the
midnight solitude-bench dolmen-realms of love, dream of life
a nightmare, bodies turned to stone as heavy as the moon,
with mother finally ******, and the last fantastic book flung out
of the tenement window, and the last door closed at 4 a.m.
and the last telephone slammed at the wall in reply and the
last furnished room emptied down to the last piece of mental
furniture, a yellow paper rose twisted on a wire hanger in the
closet, and even that imaginary, nothing but a hopeful little
bit of hallucination--
ah, Carl, while you are not safe I am not safe, and now you’re
really in the total animal soup of time--
and who therefore ran through the icy streets obsessed with a
sudden flash of the alchemy of the use of the ellipse the
catalog the meter & the vibrating plane,
who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through
images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul
between 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and
set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping
with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus
to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human prose and
stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking
with shame, rejected yet confessing out the soul to conform
to the rhythm of thought in his naked and endless head,
the madman bum and angel beat in Time, unknown, yet putting
down here what might be left to say in time come after
death,
and rose reincarnate in the ghostly clothes of jazz in the goldhorn
shadow of the band and blew the suffering of America’s naked
mind for love into an eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani
saxophone cry that shivered the cities down to the last radio
with the absolute heart of the poem of life butchered out of their
own bodies good to eat a thousand years.
Monday, August 22, 2016
Howl, Part I. By Allen Ginsberg
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
The leader who had no title. Robin Sharma. Memorable quotes V.
-Ideas are ultimately worthless unless you activate them with focused and consistent action.
-Masters become masters because they had the courage and conviction to act on ideas.
-Starting truly is the hardest part. Beginning is half the battle. That first step truly is always the hardest. Because you are fighting the forces of gravity of your old thinking and habits.
-Daily ripples of excellence over time become a tsunami of success.
-No human beings likes change. We do love predictability. So anything new scares us and sets our internal systems into varying degrees of confusion and chaos.
-Your ability to have and impact and make a contribution comes more from who you are as a person than from the authority you receive by your placement on some org chart.
-It's about feeling really safe in your own skin and learning to trust yourself so that you work under your values, express your original voice, and be the best you can be. It's about knowing who you are, what you stand for, and then having the courage to be yourself.
-Don't lose yourself on the way to the top.
-There will never be a better you than you.
-Authenticity is about being true to who you are, even when everyone around you wants you to be someone else.
-When people say you'll fail or suggest you are not good enough, stand strong in your own skin and don't let them tear you down. Because leadership has a lot to do with believing in yourself when no one else believes in you.
-Anyone who thinks and behaves differently will be called abnormal.
-Jealousy is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
-You will never go wrong in doing what's right.
-If there is one thing I've learned about leadership success, it's that it lies at the intersection where excellence meets honor.
-Nothing is more precious in work than staying consistent with your values and protecting your good name. In so many ways, your reputation is all you have.
-Masters become masters because they had the courage and conviction to act on ideas.
-Starting truly is the hardest part. Beginning is half the battle. That first step truly is always the hardest. Because you are fighting the forces of gravity of your old thinking and habits.
-Daily ripples of excellence over time become a tsunami of success.
-No human beings likes change. We do love predictability. So anything new scares us and sets our internal systems into varying degrees of confusion and chaos.
-Your ability to have and impact and make a contribution comes more from who you are as a person than from the authority you receive by your placement on some org chart.
-It's about feeling really safe in your own skin and learning to trust yourself so that you work under your values, express your original voice, and be the best you can be. It's about knowing who you are, what you stand for, and then having the courage to be yourself.
-Don't lose yourself on the way to the top.
-There will never be a better you than you.
-Authenticity is about being true to who you are, even when everyone around you wants you to be someone else.
-When people say you'll fail or suggest you are not good enough, stand strong in your own skin and don't let them tear you down. Because leadership has a lot to do with believing in yourself when no one else believes in you.
-Anyone who thinks and behaves differently will be called abnormal.
-Jealousy is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
-You will never go wrong in doing what's right.
-If there is one thing I've learned about leadership success, it's that it lies at the intersection where excellence meets honor.
-Nothing is more precious in work than staying consistent with your values and protecting your good name. In so many ways, your reputation is all you have.
Friday, August 12, 2016
The making of an expert by K. Anders EricssonMichael J. PrietulaEdward T. Cokely. Quotes.
-Real expertise must pass three tests. First, it must lead to performance that is consistently superior to that of the expert's peers. Second, real expertise produces concrete results. Finally, true expertise can be replicated and measured in the lab.
-Not all practice makes perfect. You need a particular kind of practice -deliberate practice- to develop expertise.
-When most people practice, they focus on the things they already know how to do. Deliberate practice is different. It entails considerable, specific, and sustained efforts to do something you can't do well or even at all. Research across domains shows that it is only by working at what you can't do that you turn into the expert you want to become.
-A key element of leadership and management is charisma. A surprising number of executives believe that charisma is innate and cannot be learned. However, charisma can be learned through deliberate practice. Bear in mind that even Winston Churchill, one of the most charismatic figures of the twentieth century, practiced his oratory style in front of a mirror.
-Genuine experts not only practice deliberately but also think deliberately.
-Deliberate practice involves two kinds of learning: improving the skills you already have and extending the reach and range of your skills.
-Moving outside your traditional comfort zone of achievement requires substantial motivation and sacrifice, but it's a necessary discipline.
-Practice puts brains in your muscles.
-Having expert coaches makes a difference in a variety of ways.
-The development of expertise requires coaches who are capable of giving constructive, even painful, feedback.
-Elite performers know what they do right and concentrate on what they do wrong.
-Ideally, as your expertise increased, your coach will have helped you become more and more independent, so that you are able to set your own development plans.
-Good coaches help their students learn how to rely on an inner coach.
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-Not all practice makes perfect. You need a particular kind of practice -deliberate practice- to develop expertise.
-When most people practice, they focus on the things they already know how to do. Deliberate practice is different. It entails considerable, specific, and sustained efforts to do something you can't do well or even at all. Research across domains shows that it is only by working at what you can't do that you turn into the expert you want to become.
-A key element of leadership and management is charisma. A surprising number of executives believe that charisma is innate and cannot be learned. However, charisma can be learned through deliberate practice. Bear in mind that even Winston Churchill, one of the most charismatic figures of the twentieth century, practiced his oratory style in front of a mirror.
-Genuine experts not only practice deliberately but also think deliberately.
-Deliberate practice involves two kinds of learning: improving the skills you already have and extending the reach and range of your skills.
-Moving outside your traditional comfort zone of achievement requires substantial motivation and sacrifice, but it's a necessary discipline.
-Practice puts brains in your muscles.
-Having expert coaches makes a difference in a variety of ways.
-The development of expertise requires coaches who are capable of giving constructive, even painful, feedback.
-Elite performers know what they do right and concentrate on what they do wrong.
-Ideally, as your expertise increased, your coach will have helped you become more and more independent, so that you are able to set your own development plans.
-Good coaches help their students learn how to rely on an inner coach.
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The leader who had no title. Robin Sharma. Memorable quotes IV.
-Everyone of us has the potential to be geniuses at what we do.
-Every belief inevitably becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
-Whether you think something is possible or impossible, you'll most certainly be right. Because your belief determines your behavior.
-People don't work and live at average because they are average. They behave that way because they've forgotten who they truly are.
-You will never behave in a way that's inconsistent with your self-image.
-Successful people have successful thinking patterns.
-It takes about ten thousand hours to become a master at something.
-The ten thousand hour idea add to about ten years of focused effort and consistent practice.
-Each one of us alone is responsible for how we respond to the environment we find ourselves in.
-Procrastination is just another form of fear.
-Every belief inevitably becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
-Whether you think something is possible or impossible, you'll most certainly be right. Because your belief determines your behavior.
-People don't work and live at average because they are average. They behave that way because they've forgotten who they truly are.
-You will never behave in a way that's inconsistent with your self-image.
-Successful people have successful thinking patterns.
-It takes about ten thousand hours to become a master at something.
-The ten thousand hour idea add to about ten years of focused effort and consistent practice.
-Each one of us alone is responsible for how we respond to the environment we find ourselves in.
-Procrastination is just another form of fear.
Saturday, July 30, 2016
The leader who had no title. Robin Sharma. Memorable quotes III.
-Potential unrealized turns to pain.
-Anyone can reach success if they consistently do the right things.
-Failure is nothing more than the inevitable outcome of a few small acts of daily neglect performed consistently over time so that they take you past the point of no return.
-Let go of your excuses.
-Visiting your mortality reminds you that your months are numbered.
-The more you own your power to make choices, the more powerful your choices become.
-You've fought hard so we could all be free.
-I could come up with a million reasons to be discouraged... But one of the greatest freedoms each of us has as people is the freedom to choose how we view our roles in the world and the power we all have to make positive decisions in whatever conditions we happen to find ourselves.
-I created my luck.
-Life's simplest pleasures are life's most precious ones.
-Success both in business and personally is something that's consciously created. It's the guaranteed result of a deliberate series of acts that anyone can perform.
-Never play victim! It's impossible to build a tribute to success o a foundation of excuses.
-Great people construct monuments with the stones their critics throw at them. It is when no one criticizes you when you should be really worried.
-The single best move any organization can make is growing the leadership potential of every single one of its constituents.
-People are too scared to be too original these days.
-What can I improve today?
-Keep challenging yourself to see things as you dream of seeing them.
-Dream big yet start small.
-Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.
-Be so good that people cannot ignore you.
-Expect more from yourself than anyone around you could ever expect from you. Play in the big leagues.
-There is a lot of less competition on the extra mile.
-What would the person who is the best in the world at what I do be doing in this very moment?
-Being extraordinary in your work is one of the true secrets of happiness.
-Anyone can reach success if they consistently do the right things.
-Failure is nothing more than the inevitable outcome of a few small acts of daily neglect performed consistently over time so that they take you past the point of no return.
-Let go of your excuses.
-Visiting your mortality reminds you that your months are numbered.
-The more you own your power to make choices, the more powerful your choices become.
-You've fought hard so we could all be free.
-I could come up with a million reasons to be discouraged... But one of the greatest freedoms each of us has as people is the freedom to choose how we view our roles in the world and the power we all have to make positive decisions in whatever conditions we happen to find ourselves.
-I created my luck.
-Life's simplest pleasures are life's most precious ones.
-Success both in business and personally is something that's consciously created. It's the guaranteed result of a deliberate series of acts that anyone can perform.
-Never play victim! It's impossible to build a tribute to success o a foundation of excuses.
-Great people construct monuments with the stones their critics throw at them. It is when no one criticizes you when you should be really worried.
-The single best move any organization can make is growing the leadership potential of every single one of its constituents.
-People are too scared to be too original these days.
-What can I improve today?
-Keep challenging yourself to see things as you dream of seeing them.
-Dream big yet start small.
-Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.
-Be so good that people cannot ignore you.
-Expect more from yourself than anyone around you could ever expect from you. Play in the big leagues.
-There is a lot of less competition on the extra mile.
-What would the person who is the best in the world at what I do be doing in this very moment?
-Being extraordinary in your work is one of the true secrets of happiness.
Saturday, July 23, 2016
The leader who had no title. Robin Sharma. Memorable quotes II.
-You'll always reap what you sow.
-Even the smallest good act has set in motion a good consequence.
-Be an original.
-5 am: the greatest time of the day.
-Embracing uncertainty is a precious gift. Most of us get so scared the moment we face the unknown. We shouldn't though. It's really nothing more than the beginning of an adventure. And our growth coming to get us.
-Leaders are those individuals who do the things that failures aren't willing to do, even though the might not like doing them either. They have the discipline to do what they know to be important.
-Few things generate as much happiness as knowing that you are fully realizing your genius, doing brilliant work, and spending your life beautifully.
-Having the courage to show up is half the battle.
-Learning is the daughter of repetition.
-Getting up early is one of the intelligent daily practices that Leaders with no title perform with consistency.
-Graves fascinate me. They serve to dramatically remind me of how short life is.
-Each of us alone creates the lives we get to live.
-I stopped making excuses. I assumed total responsibility for the consequences of my actions. And stepped into my best.
-Even the smallest good act has set in motion a good consequence.
-Be an original.
-5 am: the greatest time of the day.
-Embracing uncertainty is a precious gift. Most of us get so scared the moment we face the unknown. We shouldn't though. It's really nothing more than the beginning of an adventure. And our growth coming to get us.
-Leaders are those individuals who do the things that failures aren't willing to do, even though the might not like doing them either. They have the discipline to do what they know to be important.
-Few things generate as much happiness as knowing that you are fully realizing your genius, doing brilliant work, and spending your life beautifully.
-Having the courage to show up is half the battle.
-Learning is the daughter of repetition.
-Getting up early is one of the intelligent daily practices that Leaders with no title perform with consistency.
-Graves fascinate me. They serve to dramatically remind me of how short life is.
-Each of us alone creates the lives we get to live.
-I stopped making excuses. I assumed total responsibility for the consequences of my actions. And stepped into my best.
Sunday, July 10, 2016
The leader who had no title. Robin Sharma. Memorable quotes I.
-Each of us is born into genius. Sadly, most of us die amid mediocrity.
-The best you can do is all you can do.
-Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness.
-My parents didn't have a lot of things, yet in many ways they had everything: they had the courage of their convictions, they had superb values, and they had self-respect.
-The best people always seem to have the biggest libraries.
-Getting lost along your path is a part of finding the path you are meant to be on.
-Age is just a state of mind.
-The highest of all human abilities is the ability each one of us has to choose how we respond to the environment we find ourselves within.
-Leadership has nothing to do with what you get or where you sit. Leadership's a lot more about how brilliantly you work and how masterfully you behave.
-Every single one of us alive in the world today has unrecognized powers and disowned potential that are far superior to the power conferred by a title.
-The less you care about receiving the stuff most of us care about at work, the more you received it.
-The best you can do is all you can do.
-Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness.
-My parents didn't have a lot of things, yet in many ways they had everything: they had the courage of their convictions, they had superb values, and they had self-respect.
-The best people always seem to have the biggest libraries.
-Getting lost along your path is a part of finding the path you are meant to be on.
-Age is just a state of mind.
-The highest of all human abilities is the ability each one of us has to choose how we respond to the environment we find ourselves within.
-Leadership has nothing to do with what you get or where you sit. Leadership's a lot more about how brilliantly you work and how masterfully you behave.
-Every single one of us alive in the world today has unrecognized powers and disowned potential that are far superior to the power conferred by a title.
-The less you care about receiving the stuff most of us care about at work, the more you received it.
Sunday, July 3, 2016
Friday, May 20, 2016
As you think by James Allen. Memorable quotes.
-We are made or unmade by ourselves.
-You are the master of your thought, the molder of your character, and the maker and shaper of your condition, environment, and destiny.
-As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of your own thoughts, you hold the key to every situation, and contain within yourself that transforming and regenerative agency by which you make yourself what you will.
-Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of your life will always be found to be harmoniously related to your inner state.
-You are where you are by the law of your being: the thoughts that you have built into your character have brought you there, and in the arrangement of your life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law that cannot err.
-You are buffeted by circumstances so long as you believe yourself to be a creature affected by outside conditions -but when you realize that you are a creative power, and that you may command the hidden soil and seeds of your being out of which your circumstances grow, then you become the rightful master of yourself.
-You are the master of your thought, the molder of your character, and the maker and shaper of your condition, environment, and destiny.
-As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of your own thoughts, you hold the key to every situation, and contain within yourself that transforming and regenerative agency by which you make yourself what you will.
-Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of your life will always be found to be harmoniously related to your inner state.
-You are where you are by the law of your being: the thoughts that you have built into your character have brought you there, and in the arrangement of your life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law that cannot err.
-You are buffeted by circumstances so long as you believe yourself to be a creature affected by outside conditions -but when you realize that you are a creative power, and that you may command the hidden soil and seeds of your being out of which your circumstances grow, then you become the rightful master of yourself.
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Monday, May 16, 2016
The book of life. Memorable quotes by Krishnamurti.
-Learning implies the love of understanding and the love of doing for itself. Learning is possible only when there is no coercion of any kind.
-Comparison brings about frustration and merely encourages envy, which is called competition. Like other forms of persuasion, comparison prevents learning and breeds fear.
-Without self-knowledge there is no liberation from ignorance, from sorrow.
-Love admits no division
-Attachment is the beginning of sorrow.
-We are that which we posses.
-Comparison brings about frustration and merely encourages envy, which is called competition. Like other forms of persuasion, comparison prevents learning and breeds fear.
-Without self-knowledge there is no liberation from ignorance, from sorrow.
-Love admits no division
-Attachment is the beginning of sorrow.
-We are that which we posses.
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Friday, March 25, 2016
Books to read next
This is a list of some of the books that I am considering to read:
1. Angels on my shoulder by Lorna Byrne.
2. The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi.
3. The Prophet. Kahlil Gibran
4. As You Think by James Allen
5. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela.
1. Angels on my shoulder by Lorna Byrne.
2. The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi.
3. The Prophet. Kahlil Gibran
4. As You Think by James Allen
5. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela.
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
The Law of Mirrors by Doe Zantamata
The Fifth Law of Karma is the Law of Mirrors. It has two distinct parts. Overall, it’s the Law of Personal Responsibility.
The first part of this Law is that:
If we can label a quality in another person, then it means that quality is also within us.
This can be good or bad news!
Think of the people you know, and think of or make a list of the qualities you would say they have. Be honest. This is just an exercise for you.
Some people, you may describe as kind, generous, thoughtful, or others you may say are arrogant, self-centered, or inconsiderate. All of the qualities on your list are also in you. This is at first difficult to believe, as when we’re calling someone arrogant, we certainly don’t think we are, too.
Whatever you believe about someone, they probably also believe about you.
Have you ever been told you were so thoughtful by someone who you believe is very thoughtful? Have you ever been called controlling by someone who you believe is controlling? Or insecure by someone you think is insecure?
In all of those cases, you’re both right.
This isn’t an article intending to insult anyone or make anyone go on the defensive. This is an amazing shift in awareness that allows you to see the truth about yourself, as well as free you from other people’s perceptions that you cannot change. It’s a tool to help you make improvements where necessary, and also see what great qualities you have that you may not even realize.
A mirror will not show your beautiful hair if you do not have beautiful hair. It will not show your large feet if you do not have large feet. It will not show any negative qualities that you yourself do not have, and will not show any positive qualities that you do not have, either.
This Law, when fully understood, also can also really help you understand why some people act the way they do.
Have you ever had a conversation with someone, a person you just met or even an old friend or family member, and you seem to be speaking two different languages? Maybe they suddenly get angry or accuse you of something or insult you, and you’re totally taken off guard and shocked.
This is what happens when two mirrors do not reflect the same things. If they have within them something that you do not have, they see it in you even though it’s just not there.
If you truly do not have it, you do not see it in them, yourself, or anyone else, because it doesn’t exist in you.
When this attack happens, it’s a really jarring experience. You may try to even clarify what you meant by something, but they still can only see what’s being reflected back to them.
You may then ask another friend what they think of what’s happened, in an attempt to try to figure it out for yourself. If that friend immediately says, “Oh, she’s so…” but if that friend recognized it, it means he or she also has that negative quality.
You may still not see it, and say, “I don’t think so…” no matter how certain they are.
Now, if that friend were also really confused as to why the first one blew up, then it means he or she does not have that quality either.
There is a danger in being close to someone who has negative qualities that you do not possess. The danger lies in your taking their blow ups personally and feeling awful as a result. When we’re faced with something confusing like that from someone we love, it really hurts, and we sometimes internalize that pain. You don’t know why they’re so upset or angry, as you cannot see what they see, but you don’t want them to continue to be upset.
What you need to realize is that there is nothing YOU can do to remove that negative quality from them. You can’t even see it. It will be up to them to remove it from themselves. This may or may not happen in their entire lifetime.
If this is something that happens regularly, then you are setting yourself up for verbal abuse as long as you stay close to them. You can choose to put some distance between yourself and them, or if it happens weekly or even daily, you may even consider letting them go from your life.
By staying close to them and continually getting accused of negative qualities in your attempt to help them to not be upset, you may try so hard to understand and see what they are talking about, that you end up picking up some of those qualities. Then you would be able to clearly see those qualities everywhere you go, but it would also unfortunately mean that they’ve developed in you. This is not a good solution, and will decrease your overall happiness, and the happiness of everyone you contact.
Suddenly, you may see negative things in other people that they do not possess, but the qualities have become part of you, so you just see them everywhere.
Anger and confusion are actually your friends here. They indicate when there is a difference in mirrors.
For example, if you are always doing thoughtful things for someone, and they never do a thoughtful thing for you, you may not understand why and get a little angry about it. It means that consideration is just not in them.
If someone gets angry with you and you just don’t understand why, it means that whatever they are angry with you about is not the truth. It’s what they see in the world, so it’s true for them, but it’s just not in you.
Examples of this are:
- when someone is shy but gets accused of being arrogant
- when someone is outgoing but gets accused of being obnoxious
- when someone is kind but gets accused of “only” doing nice things for ulterior or selfish motives
If you can label it, it’s in you. If they can label it, it’s in them. If you both can label it, it’s in both of you, good and bad.
Remember, too, that we’re all walking our own path. While you may be tempted to convince someone that your acts were truly just thoughtful or kind, or you may be really hurt when they accuse you of something negative, you just can’t convince them that your motives were pure. It’s like two people speaking entirely different languages attempting to understand each other, or like a person who has sight getting frustrated with a person who is blind because they cannot see what they see.
Once you learn this Law, it really clarifies a lot of people’s seemingly odd behavior. It suddenly shows that their behavior makes total and perfect sense.
This is an excerpt from the book: Happiness in Your Life - Book One: Karma - By Doe Zantamata
The first part of this Law is that:
If we can label a quality in another person, then it means that quality is also within us.
This can be good or bad news!
Think of the people you know, and think of or make a list of the qualities you would say they have. Be honest. This is just an exercise for you.
Some people, you may describe as kind, generous, thoughtful, or others you may say are arrogant, self-centered, or inconsiderate. All of the qualities on your list are also in you. This is at first difficult to believe, as when we’re calling someone arrogant, we certainly don’t think we are, too.
Whatever you believe about someone, they probably also believe about you.
Have you ever been told you were so thoughtful by someone who you believe is very thoughtful? Have you ever been called controlling by someone who you believe is controlling? Or insecure by someone you think is insecure?
In all of those cases, you’re both right.
This isn’t an article intending to insult anyone or make anyone go on the defensive. This is an amazing shift in awareness that allows you to see the truth about yourself, as well as free you from other people’s perceptions that you cannot change. It’s a tool to help you make improvements where necessary, and also see what great qualities you have that you may not even realize.
A mirror will not show your beautiful hair if you do not have beautiful hair. It will not show your large feet if you do not have large feet. It will not show any negative qualities that you yourself do not have, and will not show any positive qualities that you do not have, either.
This Law, when fully understood, also can also really help you understand why some people act the way they do.
Have you ever had a conversation with someone, a person you just met or even an old friend or family member, and you seem to be speaking two different languages? Maybe they suddenly get angry or accuse you of something or insult you, and you’re totally taken off guard and shocked.
This is what happens when two mirrors do not reflect the same things. If they have within them something that you do not have, they see it in you even though it’s just not there.
If you truly do not have it, you do not see it in them, yourself, or anyone else, because it doesn’t exist in you.
When this attack happens, it’s a really jarring experience. You may try to even clarify what you meant by something, but they still can only see what’s being reflected back to them.
You may then ask another friend what they think of what’s happened, in an attempt to try to figure it out for yourself. If that friend immediately says, “Oh, she’s so…” but if that friend recognized it, it means he or she also has that negative quality.
You may still not see it, and say, “I don’t think so…” no matter how certain they are.
Now, if that friend were also really confused as to why the first one blew up, then it means he or she does not have that quality either.
There is a danger in being close to someone who has negative qualities that you do not possess. The danger lies in your taking their blow ups personally and feeling awful as a result. When we’re faced with something confusing like that from someone we love, it really hurts, and we sometimes internalize that pain. You don’t know why they’re so upset or angry, as you cannot see what they see, but you don’t want them to continue to be upset.
What you need to realize is that there is nothing YOU can do to remove that negative quality from them. You can’t even see it. It will be up to them to remove it from themselves. This may or may not happen in their entire lifetime.
If this is something that happens regularly, then you are setting yourself up for verbal abuse as long as you stay close to them. You can choose to put some distance between yourself and them, or if it happens weekly or even daily, you may even consider letting them go from your life.
By staying close to them and continually getting accused of negative qualities in your attempt to help them to not be upset, you may try so hard to understand and see what they are talking about, that you end up picking up some of those qualities. Then you would be able to clearly see those qualities everywhere you go, but it would also unfortunately mean that they’ve developed in you. This is not a good solution, and will decrease your overall happiness, and the happiness of everyone you contact.
Suddenly, you may see negative things in other people that they do not possess, but the qualities have become part of you, so you just see them everywhere.
Anger and confusion are actually your friends here. They indicate when there is a difference in mirrors.
For example, if you are always doing thoughtful things for someone, and they never do a thoughtful thing for you, you may not understand why and get a little angry about it. It means that consideration is just not in them.
If someone gets angry with you and you just don’t understand why, it means that whatever they are angry with you about is not the truth. It’s what they see in the world, so it’s true for them, but it’s just not in you.
Examples of this are:
- when someone is shy but gets accused of being arrogant
- when someone is outgoing but gets accused of being obnoxious
- when someone is kind but gets accused of “only” doing nice things for ulterior or selfish motives
If you can label it, it’s in you. If they can label it, it’s in them. If you both can label it, it’s in both of you, good and bad.
Remember, too, that we’re all walking our own path. While you may be tempted to convince someone that your acts were truly just thoughtful or kind, or you may be really hurt when they accuse you of something negative, you just can’t convince them that your motives were pure. It’s like two people speaking entirely different languages attempting to understand each other, or like a person who has sight getting frustrated with a person who is blind because they cannot see what they see.
Once you learn this Law, it really clarifies a lot of people’s seemingly odd behavior. It suddenly shows that their behavior makes total and perfect sense.
This is an excerpt from the book: Happiness in Your Life - Book One: Karma - By Doe Zantamata
Karma: Law 5: The Law of Mirrors
When people insult you, don't take offense, don't take it personally, but do listen to their words. They are telling you how they see the world, and they are telling you the exact negative qualities that they possess. The Law of Mirrors states that one can only see what's in them, regardless if it is what actually present in reality or not.
Release the need to defend or try to explain to them that you're not being whatever nasty insult they've thrown at you, but evaluate instead all of these insults, and realize that this is who they are. Then decide if a person with those qualities is one who you'd like in your life or not.
Release the need to defend or try to explain to them that you're not being whatever nasty insult they've thrown at you, but evaluate instead all of these insults, and realize that this is who they are. Then decide if a person with those qualities is one who you'd like in your life or not.
Sunday, February 7, 2016
We are your friends memorable quotes
It's the DJ's job to get the crowd out of their heads and into their bodies. I like to start them off at about 125 beats per minute. Once you've locked onto their heart rate, you start bringing them up song by song. 128 beats per minute, that's the magic number.
Any successful artist has this moment where they stop being an admirer and they find their signature. Sounds have soul. Build them from scratch. Find new ones. Get your head out of that laptop and start listening to what the world's trying to tell you.
-That's a lot of beating hearts out there. Think you can handle it?
-What's up? I am Cole Carter
-I love it here. I love it here.
-Wait, are you recording this?
What, you don't wanna keep working with the group?
-I don't know. Do you?
-Don't you feel there is a lot of more we could be doing?
-Like, more quality stuff? I mean Cole, are we ever gonna be better than this?
Are we ever gonna be better than this?
Are we ever gonna be better than this?
Are we ever gonna be better than this?
Are we ever gonna be better than this?
I love it here. I love it here.
These days you can invent an app, start a blog, sell shit online. But if you are a Dj, you are gonna need to start with one track. And if it's real enough... and honest enough... and if it is made of everything that's made you... where you come from, who you knew, your history... then you may have a chance at connecting with everyone else. And maybe that's your ticket to everything.
-I am here to inquire about a free piece of pie that was advertised.
-Oh, well. I believe that offer's only on Thursdays... but I mean... I could make an exception I guess...
-This is the best part. The best part of anything really. It's the moment before it starts...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Robin Sharma Quotes.
The symptoms of Greatness.
1. An acute and irreversible lust for learning.
2. Ridiculously beautiful goals + dreams.
3. A fire in the belly to become relentless amid naysayers.
4. The ability to spot the finest in people and to fan their flames of excellence.
5. An uncommon adherence to politeness, punctuality and graciousness.
6. A heroic devotion to standing in full expression of creativity + originality.
7. No need to be like everyone else.
8. A breathtaking desire to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of their craft.
9. A capability to leverage pain into strength and heartbreak into joy.
10. Massive amounts of energy born of heightened inspiration.
11. A refusal to cling to the status quo.
12. A visceral desire to become a light to many.
13. A devotion to being a game-changer, world-builder + a citizen of mastery. -
Monday, December 14, 2015
Krishnamurti Biography
Jiddu Krishnamurti was born on 11 May 1895 in Madanapalle, a small town in south India. He and his brother were adopted in their youth by Dr Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society. Dr Besant and others proclaimed that Krishnamurti was to be a world teacher whose coming the Theosophists had predicted. To prepare the world for this coming, a world-wide organization called the Order of the Star in the East was formed and the young Krishnamurti was made its head.
In 1929, however, Krishnamurti renounced the role that he was expected to play, dissolved the Order with its huge following, and returned all the money and property that had been donated for this work.
From then, for nearly sixty years until his death on 17 February 1986, he travelled throughout the world talking to large audiences and to individuals about the need for a radical change in mankind.
Krishnamurti is regarded globally as one of the greatest thinkers and religious teachers of all time. He did not expound any philosophy or religion, but rather talked of the things that concern all of us in our everyday lives, of the problems of living in modern society with its violence and corruption, of the individual's search for security and happiness, and the need for mankind to free itself from inner burdens of fear, anger, hurt, and sorrow. He explained with great precision the subtle workings of the human mind, and pointed to the need for bringing to our daily life a deeply meditative and spiritual quality.
Krishnamurti belonged to no religious organization, sect or country, nor did he subscribe to any school of political or ideological thought. On the contrary, he maintained that these are the very factors that divide human beings and bring about conflict and war. He reminded his listeners again and again that we are all human beings first and not Hindus, Muslims or Christians, that we are like the rest of humanity and are not different from one another. He asked that we tread lightly on this earth without destroying ourselves or the environment. He communicated to his listeners a deep sense of respect for nature. His teachings transcend man-made belief systems, nationalistic sentiment and sectarianism. At the same time, they give new meaning and direction to mankind's search for truth. His teaching, besides being relevant to the modern age, is timeless and universal.
Krishnamurti spoke not as a guru but as a friend, and his talks and discussions are based not on tradition-based knowledge but on his own insights into the human mind and his vision of the sacred, so he always communicates a sense of freshness and directness although the essence of his message remained unchanged over the years. When he addressed large audiences, people felt that Krishnamurti was talking to each of them personally, addressing his or her particular problem. In his private interviews, he was a compassionate teacher, listening attentively to the man or woman who came to him in sorrow, and encouraging them to heal themselves through their own understanding. Religious scholars found that his words threw new light on traditional concepts. Krishnamurti took on the challenge of modern scientists and psychologists and went with them step by step, discussed their theories and sometimes enabled them to discern the limitations of those theories. Krishnamurti left a large body of literature in the form of public talks, writings, discussions with teachers and students, with scientists and religious figures, conversations with individuals, television and radio interviews, and letters. Many of these have been published as books, and audio and video recordings.
In 1929, however, Krishnamurti renounced the role that he was expected to play, dissolved the Order with its huge following, and returned all the money and property that had been donated for this work.
From then, for nearly sixty years until his death on 17 February 1986, he travelled throughout the world talking to large audiences and to individuals about the need for a radical change in mankind.
Krishnamurti is regarded globally as one of the greatest thinkers and religious teachers of all time. He did not expound any philosophy or religion, but rather talked of the things that concern all of us in our everyday lives, of the problems of living in modern society with its violence and corruption, of the individual's search for security and happiness, and the need for mankind to free itself from inner burdens of fear, anger, hurt, and sorrow. He explained with great precision the subtle workings of the human mind, and pointed to the need for bringing to our daily life a deeply meditative and spiritual quality.
Krishnamurti belonged to no religious organization, sect or country, nor did he subscribe to any school of political or ideological thought. On the contrary, he maintained that these are the very factors that divide human beings and bring about conflict and war. He reminded his listeners again and again that we are all human beings first and not Hindus, Muslims or Christians, that we are like the rest of humanity and are not different from one another. He asked that we tread lightly on this earth without destroying ourselves or the environment. He communicated to his listeners a deep sense of respect for nature. His teachings transcend man-made belief systems, nationalistic sentiment and sectarianism. At the same time, they give new meaning and direction to mankind's search for truth. His teaching, besides being relevant to the modern age, is timeless and universal.
Krishnamurti spoke not as a guru but as a friend, and his talks and discussions are based not on tradition-based knowledge but on his own insights into the human mind and his vision of the sacred, so he always communicates a sense of freshness and directness although the essence of his message remained unchanged over the years. When he addressed large audiences, people felt that Krishnamurti was talking to each of them personally, addressing his or her particular problem. In his private interviews, he was a compassionate teacher, listening attentively to the man or woman who came to him in sorrow, and encouraging them to heal themselves through their own understanding. Religious scholars found that his words threw new light on traditional concepts. Krishnamurti took on the challenge of modern scientists and psychologists and went with them step by step, discussed their theories and sometimes enabled them to discern the limitations of those theories. Krishnamurti left a large body of literature in the form of public talks, writings, discussions with teachers and students, with scientists and religious figures, conversations with individuals, television and radio interviews, and letters. Many of these have been published as books, and audio and video recordings.
Thursday, December 10, 2015
KRISHNAMURTI ON DIVISIONS, LABELS, CATEGORIES.
I wonder why we divide life into fragments, the business life, social life, family life, religious life, the life of sport and so on? Why is there this division, not only in ourselves but also socially – we they, you and me, love and hate, dying and living? I think we ought to go into this question rather deeply to find out if there is a way of life in which there is no division at all between living and dying, between the conscious and the unconscious, the business and social life, the family life and the individual life.
These divisions between nationalities, religions, classes, all this separation in oneself in which there is so much contradiction – why do we live that way? It breeds such turmoil, conflict, war; it brings about real insecurity, outwardly as well as inwardly. There is so much division, as God and the devil, the good and the bad, ‘what should be’ and ‘what is.’
Seeing all this – the wars, the absurd divisions which religions have brought about, the separation between the individual and the community, the family opposed to the rest of the world, each human being clinging to some peculiar ideal, dividing himself into ‘me’ and ‘you’, ‘we’ and ‘they’ – seeing all this, both objectively and psychologically, there remains only one question, one fundamental problem and this is whether the human mind, which is so heavily conditioned, can change. Not in some future incarnation, nor at the end of life, but change radically now, so that the mind becomes new, fresh, young, innocent, unburdened, so that we may know what it means to love and to live in peace.
“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”
“We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.”
when we are aware there is no division
Why is there, one must ask, this division—the Russian, the American, the British, the French, the German, and so on—why is there this division between man and man, between race and race, culture against culture, one series of ideologies against another? Why? Where is there this separation? Man has divided the earth as yours and mine—why? Is it that we try to find security, self-protection, in a particular group, or in a particular belief, faith? For religions also have divided man, put man against man—the Hindus, the Muslims, the Christians, the Jews and so on. Nationalism, with its unfortunate patriotism, is really a glorified form, an ennobled form, of tribalism. In a small tribe or in a very large tribe there is a sense of being together, having the same language, the same superstitions, the same kind of political, religious system. And one feels safe, protected, happy, comforted. And for that safety, comfort, we are willing to kill others who have the same kind of desire to be safe, to feel protected, to belong to something. This terrible desire to identify oneself with a group, with a flag, with a religious ritual and so on gives us the feeling that we have roots, that we are not homeless wanderers.
Krishnamurti to Himself, pp 59-60
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Angus and Julia Stone- Draw your Swords
See her come down, through the clouds
I feel like a fool
I aint got nothing left to give
Nothing to lose
So come on Love, draw your swords
Shoot me to the ground
You are mine, I am yours
Lets not fuck around
Cause you are, the only one
Cause you are, the only one
I see them snakes come through the ground
They choke me to the bone
They tie me to their wooden chair
Here are all my songs
So come on Love, draw your swords
Shoot me to the ground
You are mine, I am yours
Lets not fuck around
Cause you are, the only one
Cause you are, the only one
The only
Cause you are, the only one
Cause you are, the only one
The only one
The only one
The only one
The only one
So come on Love, draw your swords
Shoot me to the ground
You are mine, I am yours
Lets not fuck around
The only
I feel like a fool
I aint got nothing left to give
Nothing to lose
So come on Love, draw your swords
Shoot me to the ground
You are mine, I am yours
Lets not fuck around
Cause you are, the only one
Cause you are, the only one
I see them snakes come through the ground
They choke me to the bone
They tie me to their wooden chair
Here are all my songs
So come on Love, draw your swords
Shoot me to the ground
You are mine, I am yours
Lets not fuck around
Cause you are, the only one
Cause you are, the only one
The only
Cause you are, the only one
Cause you are, the only one
The only one
The only one
The only one
The only one
So come on Love, draw your swords
Shoot me to the ground
You are mine, I am yours
Lets not fuck around
The only
Monday, October 26, 2015
Saturday, October 10, 2015
The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes XIX
-When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator. Gandhi.
-A truly joyful and rewarding life come only through a process they called living in the now.
-Happiness is a journey, not a destination. Life for today. There will never be another one quite like it.
-You can have the life you deserve the very moment you start to understand that the path you are currently walking on is one rich with diamonds and other priceless treasures. Stop spending so much time chasing life's big pleasures while you neglect the little ones. Slow things down. Enjoy the beauty and sacredness of all that is around you. You owe this to yourself.
-Should I stop setting big goals for my future and concentrate on the present?
No. Goals and dreams for the future are essential elements in every truly successful life. Hope for what will appear in your future is what gets you out of bed in the morning and what keeps you inspired through your days. Goals energize your life. The point is never put off happiness for the sake of achievement. Never put off the things that are important for your well-being and satisfaction to a later time. Today is the day to live fully, not when you win the lottery or when you retire. Never put off living!
-Live your children childhood.
-A truly joyful and rewarding life come only through a process they called living in the now.
-Happiness is a journey, not a destination. Life for today. There will never be another one quite like it.
-You can have the life you deserve the very moment you start to understand that the path you are currently walking on is one rich with diamonds and other priceless treasures. Stop spending so much time chasing life's big pleasures while you neglect the little ones. Slow things down. Enjoy the beauty and sacredness of all that is around you. You owe this to yourself.
-Should I stop setting big goals for my future and concentrate on the present?
No. Goals and dreams for the future are essential elements in every truly successful life. Hope for what will appear in your future is what gets you out of bed in the morning and what keeps you inspired through your days. Goals energize your life. The point is never put off happiness for the sake of achievement. Never put off the things that are important for your well-being and satisfaction to a later time. Today is the day to live fully, not when you win the lottery or when you retire. Never put off living!
-Live your children childhood.
The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes XVIII
-The quality of your life will come down to the quality of your contribution.
-When you take care to practice random acts of kindness daily, you own life becomes far richer and more meaningful. To cultivate the sacredness and sanctity of each day, serve others in some way.
-Your life moves to a more magical dimension when you start striving to make the world a better place.
-We should live our lives in such a way that when we die, the world cries while we are rejoicing.
-Compassion and daily acts of kindness make life far richer. Take the time to meditate every morning on the good you will do for others during your day. The sincere words of praise to those who least expect it, the gestures of warmth offered to friends in need, the small tokens of affection to members of your family for no reason at all, all add up to a much more wonderful way to live.
-Friends add humor; fascination and beauty to life. There are few things more rejuvenating than sharing a belly-bursting laugh with an old friend. Friends keep you humble when you get too self-righteous. Friends make you smile when you are taking yourself too seriously. Good friend are there to help you when life throws one of its little curves at you and things look worse than they seem.
-Regret is not an activity for which I have any time. Every dawn is a new day to the one who is enlightened.
-When you take care to practice random acts of kindness daily, you own life becomes far richer and more meaningful. To cultivate the sacredness and sanctity of each day, serve others in some way.
-Your life moves to a more magical dimension when you start striving to make the world a better place.
-We should live our lives in such a way that when we die, the world cries while we are rejoicing.
-Compassion and daily acts of kindness make life far richer. Take the time to meditate every morning on the good you will do for others during your day. The sincere words of praise to those who least expect it, the gestures of warmth offered to friends in need, the small tokens of affection to members of your family for no reason at all, all add up to a much more wonderful way to live.
-Friends add humor; fascination and beauty to life. There are few things more rejuvenating than sharing a belly-bursting laugh with an old friend. Friends keep you humble when you get too self-righteous. Friends make you smile when you are taking yourself too seriously. Good friend are there to help you when life throws one of its little curves at you and things look worse than they seem.
-Regret is not an activity for which I have any time. Every dawn is a new day to the one who is enlightened.
The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes XVII
-The most productive people in this world have cultivated the habit of doing the things that less productive people don't like doing, even though they too might not like doing them.
-Those who are masters of their time live simple lives. Lasting happiness could be reached only by those who were effective and set definite aims for themselves, living a life rich with accomplishment and contribution did not have to come through the sacrifice of peace of mind.
-Too many people are dreaming of some magical rose garden on the horizon rather than enjoying the one growing in our back yards.
-Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves.
-The best time to plant a tree is was forty years ago. The second best time is today. Don't waste even on minute of your day. Develop a deathbed mentality.
-Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Expand your dreams. Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness. This is your birthright.
-Act as if failure is impossible, and your success will be assured.
-Wipe out every thought of not achieving your objectives, whether they are material or spiritual and set no limits on the workings of your imagination. Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. You will never be the same.
-We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
-I'm no longer in the world. The world is in me.
-No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience. Listen to your conscience. Let it guide you. It knows what is right. It will tell you that your calling in life is ultimately selfless service to others in some form or another.
-Those who are masters of their time live simple lives. Lasting happiness could be reached only by those who were effective and set definite aims for themselves, living a life rich with accomplishment and contribution did not have to come through the sacrifice of peace of mind.
-Too many people are dreaming of some magical rose garden on the horizon rather than enjoying the one growing in our back yards.
-Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves.
-The best time to plant a tree is was forty years ago. The second best time is today. Don't waste even on minute of your day. Develop a deathbed mentality.
-Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Expand your dreams. Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness. This is your birthright.
-Act as if failure is impossible, and your success will be assured.
-Wipe out every thought of not achieving your objectives, whether they are material or spiritual and set no limits on the workings of your imagination. Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. You will never be the same.
-We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
-I'm no longer in the world. The world is in me.
-No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience. Listen to your conscience. Let it guide you. It knows what is right. It will tell you that your calling in life is ultimately selfless service to others in some form or another.
The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes XVI
-By the time most people figure out what they really want and how to go about attaining it, it's usually too late..
-If youth only knew, if age only could.
-Maybe it is all the pain you suffered in your former life that has allowed you to embrace our wisdom with such an open heart.
-Time is the great leveller. We all have been allotted days with only twenty four hours.
-It is the busiest people who have time to spare.
-Why are you so rigidly bound to convention? Why do you feel that you have to do things the same way as everyone else? Run your own race.
-Have the discipline to focus your time around your priorities. The most meaningful things in your life should never be sacrificed to those that are the least meaningful.
-Time spent enriching your non-work hours is never a waste.
-The way you act at home affects the way you act at work. The way you treat people at the office affects the way you will treat your family and friends.
-Eighty percent of the results you achieve in your life come from only twenty percent of the activities that occupy your time. Out of all of the hundreds of activities you give your time to, only twenty percent of those will yield real, lasting results. Only twenty percent of what you do will have an influence on the quality of your life. These are the high-impact activities.
-Direct all of your time to those activities that count. Enlightened people are priority driven.
-Don't let others steal your time. Be wary of time thieves. You must be ruthless with your time. Learn to say no. having the courage to say no to the little things in life will give you the power to say yes to the big things.
-Ironically, people will respect you more when they see that you are a person who values this time.
-If youth only knew, if age only could.
-Maybe it is all the pain you suffered in your former life that has allowed you to embrace our wisdom with such an open heart.
-Time is the great leveller. We all have been allotted days with only twenty four hours.
-It is the busiest people who have time to spare.
-Why are you so rigidly bound to convention? Why do you feel that you have to do things the same way as everyone else? Run your own race.
-Have the discipline to focus your time around your priorities. The most meaningful things in your life should never be sacrificed to those that are the least meaningful.
-Time spent enriching your non-work hours is never a waste.
-The way you act at home affects the way you act at work. The way you treat people at the office affects the way you will treat your family and friends.
-Eighty percent of the results you achieve in your life come from only twenty percent of the activities that occupy your time. Out of all of the hundreds of activities you give your time to, only twenty percent of those will yield real, lasting results. Only twenty percent of what you do will have an influence on the quality of your life. These are the high-impact activities.
-Direct all of your time to those activities that count. Enlightened people are priority driven.
-Don't let others steal your time. Be wary of time thieves. You must be ruthless with your time. Learn to say no. having the courage to say no to the little things in life will give you the power to say yes to the big things.
-Ironically, people will respect you more when they see that you are a person who values this time.
Friday, October 2, 2015
The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes XV
-Instead of being a slave of your habits, you challenge them with more powerful thoughts.
-Positive always overcomes negative.
-Thoughts are physical things and fully in your control. When you control your thoughts, you control your mind. When you control your mind, you control your life. And once you reach the stage of being in total control of your life, you become the master of your destiny.
-Complacency kills.
-Words are the verbal embodiment of power. By filling your mind with words of hope, you become hopeful. By filling your mind with words of kindness, you become kind. By filling your mind with thoughts of courage, you become courageous. Words have power.
-I am more than I appear to be, all the world's strength and power rests inside me.
-Creative envisioning: picture yourself acting as Gandhi or Mother Theresa might act in a challenging situation.
-Start doing the things that you don't like doing. By getting into the habit of exerting your will, you will cease to be a slave to your weaker impulses.
-You have the power to be more than your environment. Similarly you have the capacity to be more than a prisoner of your past. To do this, you must become the master of your will.
-Keep setting the mark higher and raising your standards continuously.
-Momentum is also the secret ingredient to building self-discipline.
-Positive always overcomes negative.
-Thoughts are physical things and fully in your control. When you control your thoughts, you control your mind. When you control your mind, you control your life. And once you reach the stage of being in total control of your life, you become the master of your destiny.
-Complacency kills.
-Words are the verbal embodiment of power. By filling your mind with words of hope, you become hopeful. By filling your mind with words of kindness, you become kind. By filling your mind with thoughts of courage, you become courageous. Words have power.
-I am more than I appear to be, all the world's strength and power rests inside me.
-Creative envisioning: picture yourself acting as Gandhi or Mother Theresa might act in a challenging situation.
-Start doing the things that you don't like doing. By getting into the habit of exerting your will, you will cease to be a slave to your weaker impulses.
-You have the power to be more than your environment. Similarly you have the capacity to be more than a prisoner of your past. To do this, you must become the master of your will.
-Keep setting the mark higher and raising your standards continuously.
-Momentum is also the secret ingredient to building self-discipline.
The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes XIV
-Sure I am that this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strengths; that its pangs and toils are not beyond my endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and and unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. Winston Churchill
-The virtue of self-discipline is like a wire cable.
-When you continually practice the ancient art of self-government, there will be no hurdle too high for your to overcome, no challenge too tough for you to surmount and no crisis too hot for you to cool down. Self-discipline will provide you with the mental reserves required to persevere when life throws you one of its little curves.
-An abundance of willpower and discipline is one of the chief attributes of all those with strong characters and wonderful lives.
-Willpower allows you to do what you said you would do, when you said you would do it. It is willpower that allows you to get up at five in the morning to cultivate your mind through meditation, or to feed your spirit by a walk in the woods when a cozy bed beckons you on a cold winter's day. It is willpower that allows you to hold your tongue when a less-actualized person insults you or does something you disagree with. It is willpower that pushes your dreams forward when the odds appear to be insurmountable. It is willpower that offers you the inner power to keep your commitments to others, and, perhaps even more importantly, to yourself.
-It was one of the greatest,and saddest nights of my life.
-Through the steel of discipline, you will forge a character rich with courage and peace. Through the virtue of will, you are destined to rise to life's highest ideal and live within a heavenly mansion filled with all that is good, joyful and vital. Without them, you are lost like a mariner without a compass, one who eventually sinks with his ship.
-Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves. Don't race against others. Race against yourself.
-When you have self-control, you will have the resolve to do the things you have always wanted to do.
-Building self-control and discipline into your life will also bring you a tremendous sense of freedom. -Developing the power of your will can erase the worry habit, keep you healthy and give you far more energy than you ever had.
-Self-control is really nothing more than mind control.
-Will is the king of mental powers. When you master your mind you master your life. Mental mastery starts with being able to control every thought that you think. When you have developed the ability to discard all weak thoughts and focus only on those that are positive and good, positive and good actions will follow.
-The virtue of self-discipline is like a wire cable.
-When you continually practice the ancient art of self-government, there will be no hurdle too high for your to overcome, no challenge too tough for you to surmount and no crisis too hot for you to cool down. Self-discipline will provide you with the mental reserves required to persevere when life throws you one of its little curves.
-An abundance of willpower and discipline is one of the chief attributes of all those with strong characters and wonderful lives.
-Willpower allows you to do what you said you would do, when you said you would do it. It is willpower that allows you to get up at five in the morning to cultivate your mind through meditation, or to feed your spirit by a walk in the woods when a cozy bed beckons you on a cold winter's day. It is willpower that allows you to hold your tongue when a less-actualized person insults you or does something you disagree with. It is willpower that pushes your dreams forward when the odds appear to be insurmountable. It is willpower that offers you the inner power to keep your commitments to others, and, perhaps even more importantly, to yourself.
-It was one of the greatest,and saddest nights of my life.
-Through the steel of discipline, you will forge a character rich with courage and peace. Through the virtue of will, you are destined to rise to life's highest ideal and live within a heavenly mansion filled with all that is good, joyful and vital. Without them, you are lost like a mariner without a compass, one who eventually sinks with his ship.
-Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves. Don't race against others. Race against yourself.
-When you have self-control, you will have the resolve to do the things you have always wanted to do.
-Building self-control and discipline into your life will also bring you a tremendous sense of freedom. -Developing the power of your will can erase the worry habit, keep you healthy and give you far more energy than you ever had.
-Self-control is really nothing more than mind control.
-Will is the king of mental powers. When you master your mind you master your life. Mental mastery starts with being able to control every thought that you think. When you have developed the ability to discard all weak thoughts and focus only on those that are positive and good, positive and good actions will follow.
The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes XIII. Last 5 Rituals of Radiant Living
6. The Ritual of Early Awakening.
Rise with the sun and start the day off well. Most of us sleep far more than we need to. The average person can get by on six hours and remain perfectly healthy and alert. Sleep is really nothing more than a habit and like any other habit, you can train yourself to achieve the result you want: sleeping less in this case.
Pain is the precursor to personal growth. Don't dread it. Instead, embrace it.
Nothing to extremes, everything in moderation.
There are few things more natural than rising with the glory of the first rays of a new day.
Get up early, every day.
It is the quality and not the quantity of sleep that is important. The better the sleep, the less I will need.
The ten minute period before you sleep and the ten minute period after you wake up are profoundly influential on your subconscious mind. Only the most inspiring and serene thoughts should be programmed into your mind at those times.
The Ancient Rule of Twenty one: if you do anything for twenty one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.
Laughing is medicine for the soul. We don't laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh.
What would I do today if today was my last?
7. The Ritual of Music.
Spend a little time with music every day, even if it is listening to a soft piece on a cassette while you drive to work. Music is one of the finest motivators I know of.
8. The Ritual of the Spoken World.
Affirm all that is good in your world through mantras.
If your self-image is one of a person who lacks the confidence to do anything of value, you will only be able to take actions which are aligned with this trait. On the other hand, if your self-image is one of a radiant individual who is fearless, again, all your actions will correspond to this quality. Your self-image is a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts.
You can change your self-image. When you change your inner world, you change your outer world.
9. The Ritual of a Congruent Character.
This ritual requires you to toke daily, incremental action to build your character.
Strengthening your character affects the way you see yourself and the actions you take. The actions you take come together to form your habits and, your habits lead you to your destiny.
You sow a thought, you reap an action. Reap an action, you sow a habit. Sow a habit, you reap a character. Sow a character, you reap your destiny.
A virtuous life was a meaningful life.
Live in a manner congruent to these principles: industry, compassion, humility, patience, honesty and courage.
Do the right things. Act in a way that is congruent with your true character. Act with integrity. Be guided by your heart. The rest will take care of itself. You are never alone.
10. The Ritual of Simplicity.
Live a simple life. Focus only on your priorities, those activities which are truly meaningful. Your life will be uncluttered, rewarding and exceptionally peaceful.
Reduce your needs. Unless you reduce your needs, you will never be fulfilled. You will always want more than you have. How can you ever be happy?
Lifelong happiness does come through striving to realize your dreams. You are at your best when you are moving forward. The key is not to make your happiness contingent on finding that elusive pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
True life change is spontaneous. The very moment you decide from the deepest core of your being that you will raise your life to its highest level, in that instant, you will be a changed person, one set on the course of this destiny.
Within you lies the sun, the moon, the sky and all the wonders of this universe. The intelligence that created these wonders is the same force that created you. All things around you come from the same source. We are all one.
Every being on this Earth, every object on this Earth has a soul. All souls flow into one, this is the Soul of the Universe. When you nourish your own mind and you own spirit, you are really feeding the Soul of the Universe. When you improve yourself, you are improving the lives of all those around you. And you have the courage to advance confidently in the direction of your dreams, you begin to draw upon the power of the universe. Life gives you what you ask of it. It is always listening.
Failure is not having the courage to try. The only thing standing between most people and their dreams is the fear of failure. Never fear failure. Failure is your friend. The universe favors the brave.
Everyone's destiny is laid out for them at birth. This path always leads to a magical place filled with magnificent treasures. It is up to each individual to develop the courage to walk this way.
Always be brave. Stand your ground and follow your dreams. They will lead you to your destiny. Follow your destiny, it will lead into the wonders of the universe. And always follow the wonders of the universe, for they will lead you to a special garden filled with roses.
Rise with the sun and start the day off well. Most of us sleep far more than we need to. The average person can get by on six hours and remain perfectly healthy and alert. Sleep is really nothing more than a habit and like any other habit, you can train yourself to achieve the result you want: sleeping less in this case.
Pain is the precursor to personal growth. Don't dread it. Instead, embrace it.
Nothing to extremes, everything in moderation.
There are few things more natural than rising with the glory of the first rays of a new day.
Get up early, every day.
It is the quality and not the quantity of sleep that is important. The better the sleep, the less I will need.
The ten minute period before you sleep and the ten minute period after you wake up are profoundly influential on your subconscious mind. Only the most inspiring and serene thoughts should be programmed into your mind at those times.
The Ancient Rule of Twenty one: if you do anything for twenty one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.
Laughing is medicine for the soul. We don't laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh.
What would I do today if today was my last?
7. The Ritual of Music.
Spend a little time with music every day, even if it is listening to a soft piece on a cassette while you drive to work. Music is one of the finest motivators I know of.
8. The Ritual of the Spoken World.
Affirm all that is good in your world through mantras.
If your self-image is one of a person who lacks the confidence to do anything of value, you will only be able to take actions which are aligned with this trait. On the other hand, if your self-image is one of a radiant individual who is fearless, again, all your actions will correspond to this quality. Your self-image is a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts.
You can change your self-image. When you change your inner world, you change your outer world.
9. The Ritual of a Congruent Character.
This ritual requires you to toke daily, incremental action to build your character.
Strengthening your character affects the way you see yourself and the actions you take. The actions you take come together to form your habits and, your habits lead you to your destiny.
You sow a thought, you reap an action. Reap an action, you sow a habit. Sow a habit, you reap a character. Sow a character, you reap your destiny.
A virtuous life was a meaningful life.
Live in a manner congruent to these principles: industry, compassion, humility, patience, honesty and courage.
Do the right things. Act in a way that is congruent with your true character. Act with integrity. Be guided by your heart. The rest will take care of itself. You are never alone.
10. The Ritual of Simplicity.
Live a simple life. Focus only on your priorities, those activities which are truly meaningful. Your life will be uncluttered, rewarding and exceptionally peaceful.
Reduce your needs. Unless you reduce your needs, you will never be fulfilled. You will always want more than you have. How can you ever be happy?
Lifelong happiness does come through striving to realize your dreams. You are at your best when you are moving forward. The key is not to make your happiness contingent on finding that elusive pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
True life change is spontaneous. The very moment you decide from the deepest core of your being that you will raise your life to its highest level, in that instant, you will be a changed person, one set on the course of this destiny.
Within you lies the sun, the moon, the sky and all the wonders of this universe. The intelligence that created these wonders is the same force that created you. All things around you come from the same source. We are all one.
Every being on this Earth, every object on this Earth has a soul. All souls flow into one, this is the Soul of the Universe. When you nourish your own mind and you own spirit, you are really feeding the Soul of the Universe. When you improve yourself, you are improving the lives of all those around you. And you have the courage to advance confidently in the direction of your dreams, you begin to draw upon the power of the universe. Life gives you what you ask of it. It is always listening.
Failure is not having the courage to try. The only thing standing between most people and their dreams is the fear of failure. Never fear failure. Failure is your friend. The universe favors the brave.
Everyone's destiny is laid out for them at birth. This path always leads to a magical place filled with magnificent treasures. It is up to each individual to develop the courage to walk this way.
Always be brave. Stand your ground and follow your dreams. They will lead you to your destiny. Follow your destiny, it will lead into the wonders of the universe. And always follow the wonders of the universe, for they will lead you to a special garden filled with roses.
The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes XII. First five Rituals of Radiant Living
-The Ten Rituals of Radiant Living:
1. The Ritual of Solitude (Mandatory period of peace).
Solitude and quiet connects you to your creative source and releases the limitless intelligence of the Universe.
Positive life habits inevitably guide you to your destiny.
Commune with nature daily.
2. The Ritual of Physicality.
As you care for the body so you care for the mind.
3. The Ritual of Live Nourishment.
Live foods. Feel your plate with fresh vegetables, fruits and grains.
4. The Ritual of Abundant Knowledge.
Read regularly. Do not read just anything. It must be immensely nourishing: philosophical literature, biographies, etc.
To truly get the best out of a great boo, you must study it, not just read it.
Every answer to every problem you have ever faced is in print. All the mistakes you will ever make in your life have already been made by those that have walked before you. Do you really think that the challenges you are facing are unique to you? Read the right books.
It is not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching. It is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life. Books simply help you to see what is already within yourself.
5. The Ritual of Personal Reflection.
Inner contemplation. Get into the regular habit of personal introspection.
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. But there is something very wrong with making the same mistakes over and over again, day in and day out. This shows a complete lack of self-awareness.
1. The Ritual of Solitude (Mandatory period of peace).
Solitude and quiet connects you to your creative source and releases the limitless intelligence of the Universe.
Positive life habits inevitably guide you to your destiny.
Commune with nature daily.
2. The Ritual of Physicality.
As you care for the body so you care for the mind.
3. The Ritual of Live Nourishment.
Live foods. Feel your plate with fresh vegetables, fruits and grains.
4. The Ritual of Abundant Knowledge.
Read regularly. Do not read just anything. It must be immensely nourishing: philosophical literature, biographies, etc.
To truly get the best out of a great boo, you must study it, not just read it.
Every answer to every problem you have ever faced is in print. All the mistakes you will ever make in your life have already been made by those that have walked before you. Do you really think that the challenges you are facing are unique to you? Read the right books.
It is not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching. It is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life. Books simply help you to see what is already within yourself.
5. The Ritual of Personal Reflection.
Inner contemplation. Get into the regular habit of personal introspection.
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. But there is something very wrong with making the same mistakes over and over again, day in and day out. This shows a complete lack of self-awareness.
Friday, September 18, 2015
The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes XI
-Make a written inventory of your weaknesses. Satisfied people are far more thoughtful than others. Take the time to reflect on what it is that might be keeping you from the life you really want and know deep down you can have. Once you have identified what your weaknesses are , the next step is to face them head on and attack your fears. If you fear public speaking, sign up to give twenty speeches.
-Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness.
-When you conquer your fears, you conquer your life.
-No experience is inherently painful of pleasant. It is your thinking that makes it so.
-It is all a matte of conditioning.
-The best way to beat your fears is by doing the thing you fear.
-Understand the anatomy of fear. It is your own creation. Like any other creation, it is just as easy to tear it down as it is to erect it. Methodically search for and then destroy every fear that has secretly slid into the fortress of your mind. This alone will give you enormous confidence, happiness and peace of mind.
-When you erase fear from your mind, you start to look younger and your health becomes more vibrant.
-What sets highly actualized people apart from those who never live inspired lives is that they do those things that less developed people don't like doing, even though they might not like doing them either.
-Truly enlightened people, those who experience deep happiness daily, are prepared to put off short-term pleasure for the sake of long-term fulfillment. So they tackle their weaknesses and fears head on, even if dipping into the zone of the unknown brings with it a measure of discomfort. They resolve to live by the wisdom of kaizen, improving every aspect of themselves ceaselessly and continuously. With time, things that were once difficult become easy. Fears that once prevented them from all the happiness, health and prosperity they deserved fall to the wayside like stick men toppled by a hurricane.
-Happiness comes through the progressive realization of a worthy objective. When you are doing what you truly love to do you are bound to find deep contentment.
-Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness.
-When you conquer your fears, you conquer your life.
-No experience is inherently painful of pleasant. It is your thinking that makes it so.
-It is all a matte of conditioning.
-The best way to beat your fears is by doing the thing you fear.
-Understand the anatomy of fear. It is your own creation. Like any other creation, it is just as easy to tear it down as it is to erect it. Methodically search for and then destroy every fear that has secretly slid into the fortress of your mind. This alone will give you enormous confidence, happiness and peace of mind.
-When you erase fear from your mind, you start to look younger and your health becomes more vibrant.
-What sets highly actualized people apart from those who never live inspired lives is that they do those things that less developed people don't like doing, even though they might not like doing them either.
-Truly enlightened people, those who experience deep happiness daily, are prepared to put off short-term pleasure for the sake of long-term fulfillment. So they tackle their weaknesses and fears head on, even if dipping into the zone of the unknown brings with it a measure of discomfort. They resolve to live by the wisdom of kaizen, improving every aspect of themselves ceaselessly and continuously. With time, things that were once difficult become easy. Fears that once prevented them from all the happiness, health and prosperity they deserved fall to the wayside like stick men toppled by a hurricane.
-Happiness comes through the progressive realization of a worthy objective. When you are doing what you truly love to do you are bound to find deep contentment.
The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes X
-Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly.
-Success on the outside begins with success on the inside.
-Never be reluctant to ask even the most basic of questions. Questions are the most effective method of eliciting knowledge.
-When you have taken the time to build a strong character full of discipline, energy, power and optimism, you can have anything and do anything you want in your outer world.
-When you have cultivated a deep sense of faith in your abilities and an indomitable spirit, nothing can stop you from succeeding in all your pursuits and living with great rewards. Taking the time to master your mind, to care for the body and to nourish your soul will put you in a position to develop more richness and vitality in your life.
-No man is free who is not a master of himself.
-Strength of character, mental toughness and living with courage.
-The degree of courage you live with determines the amount of fulfillment you receive. It allows you to truly realize all the exquisite wonders of the epic that is your life. Those who master themselves have an abundance of courage.
-Philosophy of kaizen: constant and never-ending enrichment of the mind, body and soul.
-The only limits on your life are those that you set yourself.
-When you push beyond your limits, you unlock mental and physical reserves that you never thought you had.
-Push yourself daily. Work hard to improve your mind and body. Nourish your spirit. Do the things your fear. Start to live with unbridled energy and limitless enthusiasm. Watch the sunrise. Dance in a rain shower. Be the person you dream of being. Do the things you have always wanted to do but didn't because you tricked yourself into believing that you were too young, too old, too rich or too poor. Prepare to live a soaring, fully alive life.
-Life favors the prepared mind.
-Success on the outside begins with success on the inside.
-Never be reluctant to ask even the most basic of questions. Questions are the most effective method of eliciting knowledge.
-When you have taken the time to build a strong character full of discipline, energy, power and optimism, you can have anything and do anything you want in your outer world.
-When you have cultivated a deep sense of faith in your abilities and an indomitable spirit, nothing can stop you from succeeding in all your pursuits and living with great rewards. Taking the time to master your mind, to care for the body and to nourish your soul will put you in a position to develop more richness and vitality in your life.
-No man is free who is not a master of himself.
-Strength of character, mental toughness and living with courage.
-The degree of courage you live with determines the amount of fulfillment you receive. It allows you to truly realize all the exquisite wonders of the epic that is your life. Those who master themselves have an abundance of courage.
-Philosophy of kaizen: constant and never-ending enrichment of the mind, body and soul.
-The only limits on your life are those that you set yourself.
-When you push beyond your limits, you unlock mental and physical reserves that you never thought you had.
-Push yourself daily. Work hard to improve your mind and body. Nourish your spirit. Do the things your fear. Start to live with unbridled energy and limitless enthusiasm. Watch the sunrise. Dance in a rain shower. Be the person you dream of being. Do the things you have always wanted to do but didn't because you tricked yourself into believing that you were too young, too old, too rich or too poor. Prepare to live a soaring, fully alive life.
-Life favors the prepared mind.
The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes IX
-You will never be able to hit a target that you cannot see.
-Goal-setting will make your life magnificent. At the very moment that this is done, natural forces will come into play which start to transform these dreams into reality.
-Know your outcome.
-Enthusiasm is one of the key ingredients for a lifetime of successful living.
-Life pretty much gives you what you ask from it. You change your life the moment you set your goals and start to seek out your Dharma.
-Concentrate every ounce of your mental energy on self-discovery. Learn what you excel at and what makes you happy. Whatever it is find your passion and then follow it.
-What are shaped and fashioned by what we love. Goethe.
-Five step method to reach objectives:
. Forming a clear mental image of the outcome.
. Getting some positive pressure on yourself.
. Never setting a goal without attaching a timeline to it.
. The Dream Book: fill it with all your desires, objectives and dreams.
. The Magic Rule of 21: for new behavior to crystallize into a habit, one had to perform the new activity for twenty-one days in a row.
-There are three mirrors that form a person's reflection; the first is how you see yourself, the second is how others see you and the third mirror reflects the truth.
-Never do anything because you have to. The only reason to do something is because you want to and because you know it is the right thing for you to do.
-There is tremendous power in a ritual.
-A day without laughter or a day without love was a day without life.
-Never neglect to see the exquisite beauty in all living things.
-There is no chaos in this Universe. There is a purpose for everything that has ever happened to you, and everything that will happen to you.. Every experience offers lessons. So stop majoring in minor things. Enjoy your life.
-Passion is the word you must constantly keep at the forefront of your mind as you follow your mission and attain your goals. A burning sense of passion is the most potent fuel for your dreams.
It is the passion for life, the joy of waking up every morning, full of energy and exhilaration.
-What lies behind you and what lies in front of you is nothing when compared to what lies withing you.
-Goal-setting will make your life magnificent. At the very moment that this is done, natural forces will come into play which start to transform these dreams into reality.
-Know your outcome.
-Enthusiasm is one of the key ingredients for a lifetime of successful living.
-Life pretty much gives you what you ask from it. You change your life the moment you set your goals and start to seek out your Dharma.
-Concentrate every ounce of your mental energy on self-discovery. Learn what you excel at and what makes you happy. Whatever it is find your passion and then follow it.
-What are shaped and fashioned by what we love. Goethe.
-Five step method to reach objectives:
. Forming a clear mental image of the outcome.
. Getting some positive pressure on yourself.
. Never setting a goal without attaching a timeline to it.
. The Dream Book: fill it with all your desires, objectives and dreams.
. The Magic Rule of 21: for new behavior to crystallize into a habit, one had to perform the new activity for twenty-one days in a row.
-There are three mirrors that form a person's reflection; the first is how you see yourself, the second is how others see you and the third mirror reflects the truth.
-Never do anything because you have to. The only reason to do something is because you want to and because you know it is the right thing for you to do.
-There is tremendous power in a ritual.
-A day without laughter or a day without love was a day without life.
-Never neglect to see the exquisite beauty in all living things.
-There is no chaos in this Universe. There is a purpose for everything that has ever happened to you, and everything that will happen to you.. Every experience offers lessons. So stop majoring in minor things. Enjoy your life.
-Passion is the word you must constantly keep at the forefront of your mind as you follow your mission and attain your goals. A burning sense of passion is the most potent fuel for your dreams.
It is the passion for life, the joy of waking up every morning, full of energy and exhilaration.
-What lies behind you and what lies in front of you is nothing when compared to what lies withing you.
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes VIII.
-Trust yourself. Create the kind of life you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into the flames of achievement. Foster C. McClellan.
-We are living in a very troubled world. Negativity pervades it and many in our society are floating like ships without rudders, weary souls searching for a lighthouse that will keep them from crashing against the rocky shores.
-He who serves the most, reaps the most, emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. This is the way to inner peace and outer fulfillment.
-People who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.
-Never let the weeds of impure thought and action take the garden of your mind. Stand guard at the gateway of your mind. Keep it healthy and strong.
-The purpose of life is to have a life of purpose.
-Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing confidently in the direction of your life's purpose.
-Everyone of us has a heroic mission whilst we walk this Earth. We have all been granted a unique set of gifts and talents that will readily allow us to realize this lifework. The key is to discover them, and in doing so, discover the main objective of your life.
-The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
-The things that are most important should never be sacrificed to those things which are the least important.
-Goal-setting is the starting point.
-If I have seen farther than others, it is simply because I have stood on the shoulders of great teachers.
-We are living in a very troubled world. Negativity pervades it and many in our society are floating like ships without rudders, weary souls searching for a lighthouse that will keep them from crashing against the rocky shores.
-He who serves the most, reaps the most, emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. This is the way to inner peace and outer fulfillment.
-People who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.
-Never let the weeds of impure thought and action take the garden of your mind. Stand guard at the gateway of your mind. Keep it healthy and strong.
-The purpose of life is to have a life of purpose.
-Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing confidently in the direction of your life's purpose.
-Everyone of us has a heroic mission whilst we walk this Earth. We have all been granted a unique set of gifts and talents that will readily allow us to realize this lifework. The key is to discover them, and in doing so, discover the main objective of your life.
-The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
-The things that are most important should never be sacrificed to those things which are the least important.
-Goal-setting is the starting point.
-If I have seen farther than others, it is simply because I have stood on the shoulders of great teachers.
The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes VII.
-There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
-It doesn't matter what other people say about you. What is important is what you say to yourself. Do not be concerned with the judgment of others as long as you know what you are doing is right. You can do whatever you want to do as long as it is correct according to your conscience and your heart. Never be ashamed of doing that which is right; decide on what you think is good and then stick to it.
-Every second you spend thinking about someone else's dreams you take time away from your own.
-Fatigue is a creation of the mind. Fatigue dominates the lives of those who are living without direction and dreams. Your tiredness is nothing more than a mental creation, a bad habit your mind has cultivated to act as a crutch when you are performing a tedious task. Your interest and mental focus give you energy.
-When you consistently direct your mind to live in the present you will always have boundless energy, no matter what time the clock reflects.
-Only those who seek shall find.
-Techniques to master your mind: the Heart of the Rose, Opposition Thinking, the Secret of the Lake
-It doesn't matter what other people say about you. What is important is what you say to yourself. Do not be concerned with the judgment of others as long as you know what you are doing is right. You can do whatever you want to do as long as it is correct according to your conscience and your heart. Never be ashamed of doing that which is right; decide on what you think is good and then stick to it.
-Every second you spend thinking about someone else's dreams you take time away from your own.
-Fatigue is a creation of the mind. Fatigue dominates the lives of those who are living without direction and dreams. Your tiredness is nothing more than a mental creation, a bad habit your mind has cultivated to act as a crutch when you are performing a tedious task. Your interest and mental focus give you energy.
-When you consistently direct your mind to live in the present you will always have boundless energy, no matter what time the clock reflects.
-Only those who seek shall find.
-Techniques to master your mind: the Heart of the Rose, Opposition Thinking, the Secret of the Lake
The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes VI.
-Self-knowledge is the stepping stone to self-mastery. Step two is to appreciate once and for all that just as easily as you allowed those gloomy thoughts to enter, you can replace them with cheerful ones.
-Most people don't give any thought to the nature of their thoughts and yet, the quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.
-Weak minds lead to weak actions. A strong, disciplined mind can achieve miracles.
-If you want to live to the fullest, care for your thoughts as you would your most prized possessions. Work hard to remove all inner turbulence.
-You truly cannot afford the luxury of even one negative thought.
-Everything is always created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.
-If you hope to make remarkable improvements in your outer world you must first start within and change the caliber of your thoughts.
-These teachers would rise at 4 am as they felt that the early morning possessed magical qualities from which they could benefit.
-The sages would look into the waters of the still lake and envision their dreams becoming reality.
-The mind works through pictures. Pictures affect your self-image and your self-image affects the way you feel, act and achieve. When you run inspiring, imaginative pictures through the movie screen of your mind, wonderful things start to happen in your life.
-Imagination is more important than knowledge. Einstein.
-Creative envisioning: see yourself as you want to be. The magic of visualization can be applied to so many situations. Your mind has a magnetic power to attract all that you desire into your life. If there is a lack in your life it is because there is a lack in your thoughts.
-Most people don't give any thought to the nature of their thoughts and yet, the quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.
-Weak minds lead to weak actions. A strong, disciplined mind can achieve miracles.
-If you want to live to the fullest, care for your thoughts as you would your most prized possessions. Work hard to remove all inner turbulence.
-You truly cannot afford the luxury of even one negative thought.
-Everything is always created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.
-If you hope to make remarkable improvements in your outer world you must first start within and change the caliber of your thoughts.
-These teachers would rise at 4 am as they felt that the early morning possessed magical qualities from which they could benefit.
-The sages would look into the waters of the still lake and envision their dreams becoming reality.
-The mind works through pictures. Pictures affect your self-image and your self-image affects the way you feel, act and achieve. When you run inspiring, imaginative pictures through the movie screen of your mind, wonderful things start to happen in your life.
-Imagination is more important than knowledge. Einstein.
-Creative envisioning: see yourself as you want to be. The magic of visualization can be applied to so many situations. Your mind has a magnetic power to attract all that you desire into your life. If there is a lack in your life it is because there is a lack in your thoughts.
The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes V.
-Do you want to know why most people sleep so much?
Because they don't have anything else to do. Those who rise with the sun all have one thing in common: a purpose that fans the flames of their inner potential.
- Worry causes your precious mental energy and potential to leak.
-Start taking risks. Shake up your life a bit. Get rid of the cobwebs. Take the road less traveled. The best thing you can do for yourself is regularly move beyond it. Stop being so practical. Take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.
-Ten minutes of focused reflection a day will have a profound impact on the quality of your life.
-One must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind him to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and a mystery.
-Persist and spend longer and longer periods savoring the heart of the rose.
-Remember, either you control your mind or it controls you.
-There is power in silence and stillness.
-Opposition thinking: whenever a negative slide comes up on the screen, take swift action to replace it with a positive one.
Because they don't have anything else to do. Those who rise with the sun all have one thing in common: a purpose that fans the flames of their inner potential.
- Worry causes your precious mental energy and potential to leak.
-Start taking risks. Shake up your life a bit. Get rid of the cobwebs. Take the road less traveled. The best thing you can do for yourself is regularly move beyond it. Stop being so practical. Take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.
-Ten minutes of focused reflection a day will have a profound impact on the quality of your life.
-One must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind him to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and a mystery.
-Persist and spend longer and longer periods savoring the heart of the rose.
-Remember, either you control your mind or it controls you.
-There is power in silence and stillness.
-Opposition thinking: whenever a negative slide comes up on the screen, take swift action to replace it with a positive one.
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes IV.
-With one eye fixed on the destination, there is only one left to guide you along the journey.
-Luck equals preparation with opportunity.
-The very fact that you have a desire or a dream means that you have the corresponding capacity to realize it.
-The secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.
-Your passion must improve or serve the lives of others.
-Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued. It must ensue. And it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself. Viktor Frankl.
-Luck equals preparation with opportunity.
-The very fact that you have a desire or a dream means that you have the corresponding capacity to realize it.
-The secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.
-Your passion must improve or serve the lives of others.
-Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued. It must ensue. And it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself. Viktor Frankl.
The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes III.
-To liberate the potential of your mind, body and soul, you must first expand your imagination.
-Dare to dream that you are more than the sum of your current circumstances. Expect the best.
-When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds: your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person than you ever dreamed yourself to be. Patanjali.
-The price of greatness is responsibility over each of your thoughts.
-The boundaries of your life are merely creations of the self.
-The less you focus on the end result, the quicker it will come.
-Dare to dream that you are more than the sum of your current circumstances. Expect the best.
-When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds: your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person than you ever dreamed yourself to be. Patanjali.
-The price of greatness is responsibility over each of your thoughts.
-The boundaries of your life are merely creations of the self.
-The less you focus on the end result, the quicker it will come.
The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes II.
-Never overlook the power of simplicity.
-Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your heart.
-Worry drains the mind of much of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul.
-You truly cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought, not even one.
-What really separates people who are habitually upbeat and optimistic from those who are consistently miserable is how the circumstances of life are interpreted and processed.
-She was an eternal optimist. She perceived opportunity in what had happened.
-No matter what happens to you in your life, you alone have the capacity to choose your response to it. When you form the habit of searching for the positive in every circumstance, your life will move into its highest dimensions. This is one of the greatest of all the natural laws.
-There are not mistakes in life, only lessons.
-The laws of nature always ensure that when on door closes another opens.
-Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your heart.
-Worry drains the mind of much of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul.
-You truly cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought, not even one.
-What really separates people who are habitually upbeat and optimistic from those who are consistently miserable is how the circumstances of life are interpreted and processed.
-She was an eternal optimist. She perceived opportunity in what had happened.
-No matter what happens to you in your life, you alone have the capacity to choose your response to it. When you form the habit of searching for the positive in every circumstance, your life will move into its highest dimensions. This is one of the greatest of all the natural laws.
-There are not mistakes in life, only lessons.
-The laws of nature always ensure that when on door closes another opens.
The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes I.
-Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. George Bernard Shaw
-Sure I am that this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond my endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. Winston Churchill.
-In you deathbed you will never wish you spent more time at the office.
-Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
-Everything happens for a reason. Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. Failure is essential to personal expansion. Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.
-Life is all about choices. One's destiny unfolds according to the choices one makes.
-Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended. Alfred Lord Whitehead.
-How can you care for others if you cannot even care for yourself? How can you do good if you don't even feel good? I can't love you if I cannot love myself.
-When the student is ready, the teacher appears.
-It's only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others.
-Sure I am that this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond my endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. Winston Churchill.
-In you deathbed you will never wish you spent more time at the office.
-Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
-Everything happens for a reason. Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. Failure is essential to personal expansion. Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.
-Life is all about choices. One's destiny unfolds according to the choices one makes.
-Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended. Alfred Lord Whitehead.
-How can you care for others if you cannot even care for yourself? How can you do good if you don't even feel good? I can't love you if I cannot love myself.
-When the student is ready, the teacher appears.
-It's only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others.
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