If you're unsatisfied you have two options. Change your experience or change your relationship to experience. The first is agency, the second is spirituality. Both capacities are important, and it takes a lifetime to get the balance right
If you're unsatisfied you have two options. Change your experience or change your relationship to experience. The first is agency, the second is spirituality. Both capacities are important, and it takes a lifetime to get the balance right
The power of agency is, in practice, the power to build: to direct our intelligence toward the work of understanding the world and adapting it to our needs. It’s how we impose a purposeful order on nature’s chaos.
Gena Gorlin • Death is the default
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If you ever want to have peace in your life, you have to move beyond good and evil. Nature has no concept of happiness or unhappiness. Nature follows unbroken mathematical laws and a chain of cause and effect from the Big Bang to now. Everything is perfect exactly the way it is. It is only in our particular minds we are unhappy or not happy, and th
... See moreTim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
We can experience the enjoyment of our lives as we also create a future that we want. It doesn’t have to be either/or. It can be both/and. We can take full responsibility for our state of being. We can be aware of our choices, align our actions with our deepest values, and allow those experiences into our lives now.
Tripp Lanier • This Book Will Make You Dangerous: The Irreverent Guide For Men Who Refuse to Settle
"Ceaseless change is an unreliable basis for lasting fulfillment. Realizing this, many people begin to wonder whether a deeper source of well-being exists. Is there a form of happiness beyond the mere repetition of pleasure and avoidance of pain?"
Sam Harriss • Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
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If things aren't going according to your plan, examine your pictures of reality, looking for signs of limitation and control. Trying to control and manipulate events according to personality's ideas of how things should be is a fruitless activity, and may lead to disappointment, frustration, and anger. So what can you do? When you align with the in
... See moreTony Stubbs • An Ascension Handbook
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Everything in the physical or psychological world comes, goes, and changes. Your thoughts come and go. Every feeling you have comes and goes. Your perception of life comes and goes. So, you are living in a thought-created world and the content of your experience is something that comes and goes and changes. It arises — and then it disappears.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
When you finally realize this, there are four things you can do. You can blame the things that are disappointing you and try to move on to better ones. That’s the way of continued idolatry and spiritual addiction. The second thing you can do is blame yourself and beat yourself and say, “I have somehow been a failure. I see everybody else is happy.
... See moreTimothy Keller • Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
We seem to do little more than lurch between wanting and not wanting. Thus, the question naturally arises: Is there more to life than this? Might it be possible to feel much better (in every sense of better) than one tends to feel? Is it possible to find lasting fulfillment despite the inevitability of change?