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The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
She refused to be distracted by other causes. She would, of course, remain passionately concerned about marriage laws, equal pay, coeducation. But she knew that the vote was the key to it all. Without the vote, none of the other gains could be sustained.
from The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling by Stephen Cope
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This is a predictable characteristic of those who have matured into their dharma. We see it in every other character we’ve examined: Goodall, Thoreau, Whitman, and Frost. Rugged and common as a stone. As the inner life of the practitioner of dharma becomes more complex, the outer life becomes simpler.
from The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling by Stephen Cope
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It is an intentional breaking down of the tasks of any domain into smaller and smaller components to see precisely how they work. And it results in steady and incremental improvements in performance.
from The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling by Stephen Cope
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It will require you to reach—to work at your maximum potential. In order to do this, you will have to learn to take better care of yourself. You will have to sleep and eat properly. (In the case of a writer, you will have to stop abusing your mind with poorly written books.) You will probably have to create a regular schedule.
from The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling by Stephen Cope
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Unification means simply that everything in your life must line up around the spine of your dharma. Eventually, everything that is not dharma must fall away—as
from The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling by Stephen Cope
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You know that if you don’t go into training and suit up and show up every morning at your writing desk, these wonderful moments will in fact never happen. So you train as religiously as you can. Now you are hooked by dharma—by the magic of inaction in action.
from The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling by Stephen Cope
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was ‘easy and self-possessed as a lady should always be when performing a plain duty, even under 600 curious eyes.’
from The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling by Stephen Cope
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Mastery is almost never the result of mere talent. It is, rather, the blending of The Gift with a certain quality of sustained and intensive effort—a quality of effort that has now come to be called “deliberate practice.”
from The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling by Stephen Cope
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How do you get from where most of us live—the run-of-the-mill split mind—to the gathered mind of a Hokusai? Krishna articulates the principle succinctly: Acting in unity with your purpose itself creates unification.
from The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling by Stephen Cope
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