Mickey Patel
@mickeypatel
Mickey Patel
@mickeypatel
We are trying to find out what is happiness and whether happiness is something of which you are conscious. The moment you are conscious that you are happy, that you have much, is that happiness? The moment you are conscious that you are happy, it is not happiness, is it? So you cannot go after happiness. The moment you are conscious that you are
... See moreHappiness comes in drips and drabs. Make the most of the feeling when it arrives. Permanent happiness is difficult. We can never be happy every second of the day.
When you’re young, you have time. You have health, but you have no money. When you’re middle-aged, you have money and you have health, but you have no time. When you’re old, you have money and you have time, but you have no health. So the trifecta is trying to get all three at once. By the time people realize they have enough money, they’ve lost
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Today, the way we think you get peace is by resolving all your external problems. But there are unlimited external problems. The only way to actually get peace on the inside is by giving up this idea of problems. [77]
Do i always have problems because i think of them as problems? Life is full of unlimited problems Naval says. Flow with life and accept it in most cases.
Is this why i cant find peace?
internal peace is what im looking for but i didnt realise this is actually happiness?
i am at peace when anything i do makes me happy
A writer could blast out her opinions, but writers are at their best not when they tell people what to think but when they provide a context within which others can think.
Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope,’ he says, ‘and you will cease to fear.’
read this when the mind is loud
Desire controls fear. Limit desire and limit fear
Here is the crux of the matter: When the mind desires winning, its fear of losing far exceeds the desire for winning. As a result, there is intense anxiety. Which, in turn, sabotages the individual’s performance. And often results in the very thing that the mind feared all along: Losing. Does this mean that this anxiety always results in losing? Of
... See moreThis is writers block and everything else similar to the art of feeling stuck
Separate creation and release. When you’ve finished a work, wait a while before you release it to the world. By then, you’re on to something new. The public comments won’t affect you, since they will be about your past work.
read this when the mind is loud
I love this. Pressure to post to a cadence is terrible advice