Life as (the) Prayer

Religious technicalities are distractions, find faith (& yourself) in reality's paradox - can't have joy without pain, faith without doubt, etc.

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Faith shouldn’t be limited to a noun. It should be used as a verb, its past-tense form is believed. Of course, its present tense must be believe.

It doesn’t sound right to use faith as a verb, so I updated the definition of prayer to make it work. Well, someone else did first. I just wrote it down.

Worry, verb. Give way to anxiety or unease, allow one’s mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles
Prayer, verb. Give way to faith and gratitude; allow one’s mind to roam freely without real or perceived limitation

A player is to a sport as a prayer is to a belief.
A basketball player is a basketball player even if he’s in a suit on a boat.

It’s easy to believe we can score the game winning shot from the comfort of the daydreams of our own mind. It’s easy to ask for strength and patience and discipline in the comfort of our bedroom.

Life as the Prayer = Life in the act of surrendering to faith and gratitude, free of judgment or limitation - naturally motivated by curiosity to manifest meaning

It’s not easy to live in prayer - to play through the butterflies and bats that fly around on nervous stomachs! If it were easy, we wouldn’t be thinking about how our lack of self-belief holds us back.

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Wish in one hand and shit in the other, tell me which is real

You don't have to believe that you can do it

You just have to act like you do

You don't have to feel like you can accomplish your greatest dreams

Your thoughts don't have to align with where you want to be

Living your prayer means to do take action and try DESPITE your thoughts screaming total certainty of failure, stupidity, shame, uselessness

Don't just say words of affirmation. Don't just hope and manifest from your bedroom floor

Miracles can't happen without action

They always happen without feeling good about your odds

That means only when you feel like shit, can miracles occur

"If you think you can, you're right - if you think you can't, you're right"

Sounds great! motivational and inspirational, just be positive!!!

don't be a fuck head

"if i believe i can run through heavy traffic, I'll make it!"

Suddenly, delusional self belief is a step below the intelligence of a literal dog

Not believing in something is just as important as believing

It often guides you

Don't let your thoughts or your outer world determine anything, ever

You are simply watching, let your spirit pull you - not the television in your head. a child has the only remote to it and you can't control that

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@dailystoic "I've suffered so much tragedy in my life, and half of it actually happened"

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@tailopez A coward and a hero feel the same way. its what they do during it that makes the difference

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@lauramatsue Focus is a status symbol just like a fit body. Love these thoughts

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@PathOfMen_ Can't be horny in survival mode. The hornier you are, the more creative & able you are

Stay hard or stay in the trenches

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@markmanson Gotta learn when its time to surrender

Sometimes, not believing in yourself or your path is the most honest & best thing you can do

Calling that failure is where we go wrong. Sometimes we simply need to do something drastically different.
Refuse that , and the world kills ya

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@justinskycak I call this a "mental" tennis elbow

I've found that I require time away to heal this, trying to brute force my way through it only adds resistance.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

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@buridansridge "slow dance to our synchronized silence" Lauren you're incredible with the pen

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Certainty is overrated

Comfort sounds great, and feels great for the first few minutes

Then it gets boring, rapidly

Would you enjoy starting every new movie only after someone told you how it ends? Obviously not, that is lame

There is no excitement when we know

There is no thrill, no butterflies

Don't know how the rest of your week, your month, your life is going to go? Sounds more exciting

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Think about your death more. Like every fkn day

Suddenly, you won't be so miserable about the mundane

Suddenly the grocery trips through awful traffic isn't the worst shit in the world

Suddenly you're willing to go to your parents for dinner even though you're tired af and want to bed rot like your life depends on it

Tired of being low energy? Its cause you dont need more with how little you do

You'll get more when you do more with what you got

We can rest when we die

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@TomHughesx Burn the boats you cowards

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@buridansridge I really love your writing

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@WillHughesx Rationalization is for cowards

Don't kill the ego

FEED IT

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@zachpogrob That is why you're good

Those who seek power are the worst leaders

Those who are called to be creative, an artist - are worlds apart from those who just like the aesthetic

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@jimheskel Stop trying to figure anything out

Just get so much data that its impossible to ignore the proper steps

It will be revealed to you through your own reps, experience

Not someone's fkn book or advice

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@MasculineTheory I can attest this is true

Keep going

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People who put all their passion into watching sports while bitching about their lives

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@ysuckme I love the thought process of "this is my last first time" / "this is my last second time" whatever, easy to see the value of each present moment

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@RyanHoliday 1) find the biggest limiting factor to success in your field
2) determine how people most effectively get better at that
3) put in 5-10x more reps than anyone else at that specific thing
...
4) win

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@DejaRu22 The first step to anything in the forward direction is to be honest about what actually happened, how you actually felt