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Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You
nothing new can be brought into the world in a state of complete certainty. Creating requires you to go into the unknown.
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To the ancients, time was a gift of the gods, to be treated with awe and reverence. Elders were respected precisely because they had aged in the stream of time. Time was something higher than the individual, something not to be controlled but to be appreciated. In the sacred view of time, all good things come as part of a rhythmic process, whether
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Faith is a deeply held conviction that there is a higher meaning in life that cannot be proved by outer events.
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In the long run, life is intolerable without faith.
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Speed Once you have determined to do something, the less time you allow to elapse until you act, the better. A failed action, done quickly, will improve your confidence more than one done after great procrastination, even if it
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Remember: whatever you are creating, you are not creating alone. Everything new is a co-production between you and the life forces of the universe. A correction means you approached these higher forces in the wrong way. You may discover you are a novelist, not a screenwriter, or that you need to start a different kind of business. Co-creating with
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There are three kinds of discipline needed to stay on track. The first is called structural discipline. It consists of things you do routinely—eat, sleep, exercise, etc. The goal is to live in a constant rhythm. This connects us to higher forces because the universe functions in rhythm. Living each day with an organized structure teaches the ego to
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The second type is called reactive discipline. It’s the ability to control your reactions to the events that bombard you all day. If you’re a sugar junkie and someone offers you a cookie, you need reactive discipline to refuse. If someone cuts you off in traffic, you need reactive discipline to keep from responding with rage. When you lose control,
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Life is a struggle. It’s human nature to want a reward for our pain and effort. Most of the time we are rewarded, but there is no certainty about when the reward will come or what it will be. This is the law of the universe, and it requires us to have faith in the future. But X tells us we’re special, and we needn’t be subject to the law. We have a
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