Failure can become a permanent state of being if you allow it to slowly solidify over time; this solidification occurs because you were afraid to follow your heart. Success comes to those who believed in their dreams and were willing to fail enough to win.
“Talkers” are never going to change the world.
They’re going to just keep on talking. “Doers” change the world. Shut yourself up for a few years and become a doer.
You’ll never go back… to wasting your life by running a verbal commentary on what other people do.
A light heart is LIFE.
A heavy heart is DEATH.
To be flexible is LIFE.
To be stiff is DEATH.
To let go is LIFE.
To keep hanging on is DEATH.
Life is a choice. Life is only lived when you choose to have faith.
Mysticism is talking directly to the intelligence of nature. Mostly listening.
Science is talking to ourselves, in a sequence of logic, about what nature might be. The scientist is talking to themselves like a crazy person.
The great minds throughout human history were the ones who took it upon themselves to figure something out, make a discovery, devise an invention, or create a stunning piece of art. They did not wait for others to do it.
Water effortlessly finds a way AROUND. So should you.
Going “through” is the way of the dumb-dumb.
When you choose to fight the “other,” you have chosen to bring a fight on yourself.
The reason why they don’t try to lie to you about why we’re all here on this planet in the first place is that nobody can even conceive of a reason that sounds even remotely plausible. Human logic is way too crude to explain our presence here in the physical world.
Being “nice” to each other is a guaranteed path to hell on earth. Having the gumption to speak the truth is the fastest path to heaven on earth. Of course, the truth may hurt a little as it heals. Yet lying only temporarily comforts without any benefit of real lasting healing.
Those trying to be successful are often focusing on “doing things right.”
It doesn’t work.
Instead, success is more often the outcome of “doing the right things.”
You are far better off from "doing the right things" in a mediocre manner than the wrong things intensely.
Most people rely on other people's approval to feel good. This displays the mind's lack of self-sufficiency and incurs the obvious punishment for dependency. It’s like an insidious taxation upon self.
The best prayer is not talking to God.
The best prayer is not listening to God.
The best prayer is to share silence with God.
If something emerges from that silence, then of course - see where it goes…