Mickey Patel
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Mickey Patel
I have to smile, thinking about what my former self would say. But the former self is not always right. We shouldn’t preserve our frst opinions as if they reflect our pure, untarnished, true nature. They’re often just the result of inexperience or a temporary phase. Old opinions shouldn’t defne who we are in the future.
Hell_Yeah_or_No • Sivers
Old opinions. Powerful
Living safely generally means living in imitation and therefore in fear. Surely, the function of education is to help each one of us to live freely and without fear, is it not? And to create an atmosphere in which there is no fear requires a great deal of thinking on your part as well as on the part of the teacher, the educator.
Krishnamurti Foundation India • Think on These Things
If you are asking for no less than God himself, you must give no less than your Entire Self.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
Believing in god will have you going around in circles your whole life. Its why ive always had less of a believe in god. I feel a lot of the ways about life as Kapil talks. I've always been really hard to please. I can see through BS. I cant explain it but what i am feeling is the truth. When you speak to truth you will make people feel uncomfortable because they're so conditioned to believing otherwise.
Humans evolved as hunters and gatherers where we all worked for ourselves. It’s only at the beginning of agriculture we became more hierarchical. The Industrial Revolution and factories made us extremely hierarchical because one individual couldn’t necessarily own or build a factory, but now, thanks to the internet, we’re going back to an age where
... See moreTim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
We all worked for ourselves
When I try to make the best thing, it feels different. It feels like I’m trying to prove something to someone instead of trying to discover something for myself. It feels dishonest and disrespectful of where I’m at. I’m not the best, so why should I try to make the best things? I’m just me, so I should make me things.
I don’t like making the best things - internetVin
If you merely escape mental pain and confusion with drugs, entertainment, sex, busy-ness, the painful problem is still there, compounded with exhaustion and addiction.
J. Krishnamurti • What Are You Doing With Your Life?
This was my teens and 20s
The trouble with mindfulness is that it requires persistent effort. It is like attempting to empty the ocean with a teacup. On the one hand you have the majesty of the mind. And on the other hand you have a human being who is trying to be “mindful.” Even the term “mindfulness” makes little sense. Isn’t the entire problem a fullness of the mind? You
... See moreKapil Gupta • Atmamun
Love the analogy