In: spirituality, mysticism.

Life quotes

You are where you need to be. Just breathe.

Bravery is much better than safety. Safety makes you weak.

A ship in harbour is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.

“Live” backwards is “Evil”.

I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible;
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise. – Dawna Markova

Advice from a tree:
Stand tall and proud.
Go out on a limb.
Remember your roots.
Drink plenty of water.
Be content with your natural beauty.
Enjoy the view.

Two concepts for a truly happy life:

  • use things, not people
  • love people, not things …

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see OUR OWN way more clearly.
– Brendan Francis

All the corpses in the world are chemically identical, but living individuals are not. It is true that the forms of archetypes are to a considerable extent interchangeable, but their numinosity is and remains a fact.
– Carl Jung

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
– Oscar Wilde

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
– Abraham Lincoln

When is the right time for anything? Who knows? Living is an art, not a science.
– Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain.
– Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

I’m not a materialist anymore. I don’t think the world’s made out of matter.
I think it’s made out of what matters.
– Jordan Peterson

Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
– Richard Bach

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one’s life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
– Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the dead

Be happy. Be yourself. If others don’t like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn’t about pleasing everybody.
– John Spence

Work to live, don’t live to work.
– Ian McFerran

Do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
– Soren Kierkegaard

You will always have some excuse not to live your life.
– Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man’s pride.
– William James

When a bird is alive, it eats ants. When the bird is dead, ants eat the bird; Time and circumstances can change at any time. Don’t devaluate or hurt anyone in life.
You may be powerful one day, but remember: time is more powerful than you!
One tree makes a million match sticks… Only one match stick needed to burn a million trees… So, be good, and do good.
– www.thinkinghumanity.com/2014/09/how-can-12-laws-of-karma-change-your-life.html

Articles

Principles for living: An Operating system for Life:
https://fs.blog/principles/

1 – Direction over speed

If you’re pointed in the wrong direction, it doesn’t matter how fast you’re traveling. Inversely, if you’re locked on to your desired destination, all progress is positive, no matter how slow you’re going. You’ll reach your goal eventually.

2 – Live deliberately

How many of us settle into habits and simply live the same year over and over again, waiting for some future event to occur before we start living? While we wait for that raise or career opportunity or ideal relationship, we tend to forget that life is happening now.

3 – Thoughtful opinions held loosely

How do you respond when you’re faced with facts that contradict a sometimes long-held and cherished belief?
Do you update your knowledge database with the new facts, or do you flail about and try to rationalize or refute the new facts so as not to upset the status quo?
As much as we’d love to consider ourselves open-minded and ever eager to learn, our human nature is to disregard information that could cause us any cognitive dissonance.

4 – Principles outlive tactics

In a game, both the coach and the play-stealer will call successful and unsuccessful plays. Here’s the difference: only the coach can determine why a play was successful or unsuccessful. Only the coach will be able to figure out how to adjust it. The coach, unlike the play-stealer, understands what the play was designed to accomplish and where it went wrong, and can easily course-correct.
Tactics provide the “what” and the “how.” And just like in football, sometimes that can be enough to get a result.

5 – Own your actions

We aren’t programmed to expose our egos or make ourselves vulnerable when we make mistakes or do something stupid. But one of the most powerful ways to make giant leaps forward in our lives is to not only accept that we’ll screw up, but to actively seek out correction when we do.

How can 12 laws of karma change your life

https://thinkinghumanity.com/2014/09/how-can-12-laws-of-karma-change-your-life.html
https://blissreturned.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/karma-the-12-laws-of-karma
https://discover.hubpages.com/games-hobbies/The-12-Laws-Of-Karma

  1. The great law
  2. The law of creation
  3. The law of humility
  4. The law of growth
  5. Law of responsibility
  6. The law of connection
  7. The law of focus
  8. The law of giving and hospitality
  9. The law of here and now
  10. The law of change
  11. The law of patience and reward
  12. The law of significance and inspiration

A collection of diary entries on Lifestyle

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/lifestyle.html

Dictionary

Wiki

×