Mickey Patel
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Mickey Patel
If I set your house on fire, you would not sit amidst the inferno and ask me what to do. You would surrender to your instincts and do anything and everything to save yourself.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
Why prescriptions dont matter
Therefore, when a man takes pride in being a worker or for having a “job” for the purpose of receiving a paycheck, he is a beggar. He may earn a six figure salary. But he remains a beggar. Many will protest this statement. They will say that it is honorable to provide for one’s family. They will say that having a job in order to support the family
... See moreKapil Gupta • Atmamun
I see this but also relate that we have created a family and home that needs care and maintenance
In employing prescriptions, he will approach the non-mechanical in a mechanical way. He will replace the power of his instincts, with manufactured notions of correctness and incorrectness. He will replace his inner voice with the voices of others. And when the prescriptions begin to fail, he will need new ones.
Kapil Gupta • There Is No HOW
make art not content and the art of writing
Why most creators create new products?
After one is given a prescription . . . or after he begins to follow a prescription . . . his allegiance, his focus, his attention, his intent is centered upon the prescription. Not upon the thing he is trying to attain.
Kapil Gupta • There Is No HOW
This is whats happening to me right now, Im more focused on the how to right good essays but the outcome is to understand my challenges. That is the focus
To make a change, most people don’t do enough.
Hell_Yeah_or_No • Sivers
Overcompensate to compensate.
i can see the gaps of where ive lacked doing this. Explore
The mind can go anywhere it wishes. You need not go With It. The mind can entertain any thoughts that it wishes. They have nothing to do with you. For you are not the mind.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
The truth
Anything can give one anything for a fleeting moment. Sitting in meditation, or even going for a walk can give one peace. But it does not last. That is the point.
Kapil Gupta • There Is No HOW
Do we want things to be ever lasting or do we want things in the moment only and not forvever?
We live in a culture obsessed with dramatic transformation: before-and-after photos, overnight success stories, life-changing moments that supposedly divide our existence into neat chapters. But real change happens in the margins, in the boring daily accumulation of tiny choices that seem to matter so little in the moment that we barely register... See more
what math can teach us about how to live
The child who twirls in the rain has no purpose for doing it. The child who runs through the field does not run to get somewhere. The running and the jumping and the playing is not done for meaning or purpose. It is an expression of the elation within. It is not done For joy. It is done Out Of joy.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
This is pure art