“The paintings,” he wrote, “are a function of my LIFE.” Just as Klein’s canvases were merely a fragment of everything that led up to them, results are the .01% ashes of the 99.9% of life that leads to them.
“Now,” Hanks said, “the same exact publications that dismissed it in their initial review call it, ‘Tom Hanks’s cult classic, That Thing You Do!’ So now it’s a cult classic. What was the difference between those two things? The answer is time.”
[Refuge Explained] : Seeking refuge involves identifying an issue and finding sources (like the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha) that offer solutions or guidance, whether for worldly or transcendent goals
[Framing Your Practice] : Start meditation sessions by reminding yourself of your motivation and end by dedicating any positive outcomes to the benefit of others to create a clean and pure practice
When you stop treating your current opportunity as a stepping stone to something else and start treating it as the only one that matters, opportunity finds you.