philosophy
You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. 48 Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself – without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat. For yoga is perfect evenness of mind.
Eknath Easwaran • The Bhagavad Gita
“Generally everyone is misunderstood, and you realize it’s not your job to make people understand you,” Le Bon said. “It’s your job to work and align yourself with your own integrity. I think that’s even harder to harness when you’re an artist as big as Annie. But she does.”
St. Vincent Dives Headfirst Into the Darkness
“Do not mistake the technique for the Goal.”
Paramhansa Yogananda • Autobiography of a Yogi (Reprint of the Philosophical library 1946 First Edition)
how many people you touched > how many people you reached
“Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.”
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Tony Robbins
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Tony Robbins
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If you don’t actively direct your life and live based on your values, someone else will be directing your life based on their values. So, it’s paramount you identify how you want to live, and unabashedly, live that way. Make a ruckus.
we are simply incapable of imagining ourselves on the other side of a profound change, because the present self doing the imagining is the very self that needs to have died in order for the future self being imagined to emerge.
This is why the profoundest changes tend to happen not willed but spawned by fertile despair — the surrender at the rock bo
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