Todd Perelmuter

NYC Chief Creative Officer | City Monk | Author of Aloneness to Oneness & 10 other books | Host of Path to Peace with Todd Perelmuter Podcast

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What's your dream?

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Life is not a competition. You may think it is, everyone you know may treat it like it is, but is not. There are no winners in that game. Someone may have more wealth but less happiness or more happiness but less good looks.Only by not playing can you win. Only then you are free

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Every magician shows you a very small perspective. From one angle, something looks like magic, but if you watched from behind and saw how they’re hiding the card, the illusion would suddenly not be so believable. #DigitalDetox

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Part of mindfully using social media that is so important is not just being mindful of what you’re seeing, but also being mindful of what you’re not seeing. Being mindful of what you don’t know. Because it’s very easy to fall for social media tricks.

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Every time you are stressed, sad, anxious or overwhelmed and you pull out your phone, watch a show, go shopping, take intoxicants, or dive into your work to feel better, you are only stuffing down your pain. It will not heal through avoidance. You must bear witness to release it

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Thoughts have power over us if we believe they are us.

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Love is not some pie-in-the-sky, naive idea.
It is the refusal to dehumanize the opposition, the other side.
It is to never forget their humanity, the causes & conditions that led to who they are today
And to never give up hope that there can be reconciliation.

#Politics

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Relationships are both the greatest sources of happiness we can find in our lives, and the greatest sources of pain and suffering.

Not only can relationships cause us tremendous heartache, but the lack or loss of them can be even more heart-wrenching.

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Make sure that you recognize that the most important thing in life is to enjoy it. Because everybody who gets to the end will tell you the same thing: they don't wish they worked harder, they don't wish they worked more hours, they wish they enjoyed the time they had.

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The purpose of meditation is not to watch our breath. The purpose is to see things as they really are. Observing our breath is merely an aid for that. All you have to do is sit with proper posture and continue your practice so it improves naturally. Only sitting is the goal.

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How to Manage Stress Without Changing Your Job or Routine. #workstress
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When you act with wisdom, it creates a chain reaction that sends forth ripples of change to all beings around you, & those beings will all create new ripples that affect all beings around them.

In so doing, your simple conscious action can change the entire world completely

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People imitate how you act, not as you say.

You are not just affecting your own life, you impact every single person around you.

It may not be blatantly evident the ways you influence others, but everything you do is a lesson and an example for others.

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True freedom can only come from the mind. This is our domain, where we reign supreme — if we’re lucky — if we decondition ourselves from how the world wants us to think.
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#freedom

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True freedom does not come from governments — which may grant rights but which can also take them away. It doesn’t come from the freedom to choose between 37 different brands of peanut butter.
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Anything we think of as freedom that arises from our relationship with something outside of us can never be freedom. It’s only a negotiation, an agreement of cooperation dependent on a mutual social contract.
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It’s ok not to know. In fact it’s better than ok, it’s the truth. If someone claims certainty about something but has no evidence, run.

#SundayMotivation

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If we fail to see that every single person, plant, animal, and molecule is a miracle, then we will stay blinded to the depth and beauty of life.

#miracles

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You don’t need a positive mindset to attract positive things. Your mindset doesn’t change anything. Rather, your mindset changes how you experience everything. When you reach the right mindset, everything becomes awesome, even though nothing around you has changed.
#MindsetShift

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Savor the last bite like your first.

#mindfulness