Mickey Patel
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Mickey Patel
The self-help movement has created what it considers to be an antidote for this: Positive Thinking. Positive thoughts still emanate from the same mind. And while they may make one feel more ‘positive,” it is imprisonment all the same. And you will forever remain lost in the struggle of turning negative thoughts into positive ones. Bliss is neither
... See moreKapil Gupta • Atmamun
This is how i felt a year or so after project hero - no regrets, just truth
Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Good Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well.
Leadership Quotes by Doris Kearns Goodwin
“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they are finished.”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
People who are stuck often ask themselves, What am I supposed to do next? That question often comes from a place of paying attention to your thoughts, not your body. You’re too busy being slammed by your feelings to read what they’re telling you.
But how do you pay attention to your body, how do you parse your feelings, how do you reach that sense... See more
But how do you pay attention to your body, how do you parse your feelings, how do you reach that sense... See more
a blog is a space for dreaming
Most individuals have never had enough time, and they’ve never had enough resources, and they’ve never had enough support or patronage or reward . . . and yet still they persist in creating. They persist because they care. They persist because they are called to be makers, by any means necessary.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
You wear many faces. Some you show to the world. Some you keep hidden in the closet. And some you cannot bear to reveal even to yourself.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
Understand the complexities of a human, of a mind and what we present to the world.
Most of us want to reach an end; we want to be able to say, ‘I have arrived at self-knowledge, and I am happy.’ But it is not like that at all. If you can look at yourself without condemning what you see, without comparing yourself with somebody else, without wishing to be more beautiful or more virtuous; if you can just observe what you are and
... See moreKrishnamurti Foundation India • Think on These Things
Only the fool trains in order to win. The wise man trains in order to forge his Spirit. He trains in order to perfect his skill. For his craft is his life. And its refinement is his Journey. A Journey toward perfecting himself.
Kapil Gupta • A Master's Secret Whispers
#epiphany win/lose