How I aim to define myself
How I aim to define myself
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Expressing oneself in the world and creativity are the same. It may not be possible to know who you are without somehow expressing it.
– Rick Rubin
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The signs of one who is making progress are that he criticizes no one, praises no one, blames or accuses no one, and never speaks of himself as being anyone of importance, or as one who has any knowledge. And if he is praised, he laughs within at the person who is praising him, and if anyone finds fault with him, he makes no defence. He goes about
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Here is another way of finding inner space: Become conscious of being conscious. Say or think “I Am” and add nothing to it. Be aware of the stillness that follows the I Am. Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness.
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This one question—“What do I know for certain?”—is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it’s meant to. You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, belief
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The narrower and rarer the identity you choose for yourself, the more everything will seem to threaten you. For that reason, define yourself in the simplest and most ordinary ways possible.
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How you react to people and situations, especially when challenges arise, is the best indicator of how deeply you know yourself.
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"Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share."
– Ginni Rometty
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"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell."
– Edward Abbey
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“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
– Epictetus
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