Wisdom building
by Charles Harris · updated 3h ago
Wisdom building
by Charles Harris · updated 3h ago
The foundation for greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness. - Eckhardt Tolle
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In a world geared for hurry, the capacity to resist the urge to hurry—to allow things to take the time they take—is a way to gain purchase on the world, to do the work that counts, and to derive satisfaction from the doing itself, instead of deferring all your fulfillment to the future.
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I’m reading a wonderful book by the French Buddhist monk, Matthieu Ricard. He muses on the subject of happiness, and a book he later wrote on the subject: he captures it well: “My book was to be a work of interdisciplinary synthesis, taking into account the views of great thinkers of the past, in the West as in the East, as well as research on “wel
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“Pleasure is the happiness of the fool; happiness is the pleasure of the wise.”
-Jules Barney d’Aurevilly
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Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
-Jack Kornfeld
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