Mickey Patel
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Mickey Patel
Our minds are conditioned, held, tethered to dogma, to belief, to experience, to knowledge. With this tethered mind, with this mind that is so conditioned, so heavily held, we meet life, which is in constant movement. Life, with its many complex and swiftly changing problems, is never still, and it requires a fresh approach every day, every minute.
... See moreJ. Krishnamurti • What Are You Doing With Your Life?
Interesting view. The world moves. Life moves but the mind is static. Thats why we find it difficult to keep up unless we understand how the mind works.
Whether something is possible or impossible is not your business. Success and failure are ideas that will only serve as a burden to your quest. Rather than finding the thing that you can imagine yourself becoming, find the thing that you simply cannot imagine yourself Not Becoming.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
What can i imagine myself not becoming?
Happiness is a chase and nothing more
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
There’s no dishonor in having a job. What is dishonorable is scaring away your creativity by demanding that it pay for your entire existence.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
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
Think of your life as buckets labeled "career," "romance," "friendships," "health," and "passion projects," but you only have a limited pitcher of water to pour between them. Some seasons you'll flood your work bucket while the others sit nearly empty. Other weeks, you'll nurture your relationships while your professional ambitions temporarily... See more
what math can teach us about how to live
An empty white page is a mirror into your mind. When the ideas in your mind are clouded, so are the words on the page in front of you. Re-writing is re-thinking. It’s the best single best way to sharpen your ideas. And once your ideas are as clear as a Neiman Marcus mirror, you’ll be able to teach them to others.
David Perell • Daily Writing #2: Why You Should Write
Powerful. Writers block. Thoughts. Thinking
So look around at those existing ideas in the world. You can imitate them and still be offering something valuable and unique.
Hell_Yeah_or_No • Sivers
You can still be unique.