Category: life lessons
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Three Disturbing Lessons That My Inner Child Constantly Reminds the Adult That I Am
#3- Don’t ever put your hand down. 1. Hate is a fire that can spread through words I was nine years old the first time I knew I would die, I had gone on vacation to the village—a small village of less than two thousand inhabitants where news spread faster than gunpowder. One of that news was…
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Three Subtle Signs That You’re About to F*ck Up Your Life
#3. You have started to deny people the chance to get to know you. I’ve hurt myself so badly for so long that if screwing up was basketball, I’d be Michael freakin’ Jordan. Fortunately, I’ve changed, but that doesn’t mean my self-destructive impulses have disappeared. Those impulses are like an uncomfortable roommate that lives in my…
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5 Spiritual Lessons on Dealing With Bad Times I Wish I Knew Sooner
“Learning to receive is as difficult as learning to give.” — Alejandro Jodorowsky. The Book of Life is written with indelible ink: the mistakes you make cannot be erased. And you rarely get a second chance. What you can do is learn from your mistakes because what you do repeat are the seasons, both the good ones…
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Three Disturbing Life Lessons From a Soldier Who Became a Zen Monk
#3. War does not happen from one day to the next. “I am a murderer. I have killed people in war, and the life I live today is rooted in this awakening. But if we do not wake up, these cycles of war, violence, and suffering will continue.”— Claude Anshin Thomas. Claude Anshin Thomas volunteered for the…
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5 Life Lessons That Finally Brought Me Happiness After Two Decades of Searching
Learn from my mistakes. My grandfather used to say, “In the world, everything is invented; it’s all about learning the rules of the game and playing to win, knowing that defeat is part of the game.” Everything is invented, and there are things that, whether we like it or not, facilitate what we call happiness…
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My 92-year-old Grandfather’s Secret Method for a Long and Happy Life
Time to unveil the family wisdom. My grandfather was a happy man. And because of all this, many said that the secret of his happiness was that he was fortunate. Luck? Luck to be born in the time of famine? Luck to do three years of compulsory military service? Luck to live the Spanish civil war?…
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The Mind-Blowing Spiritual Lesson I Learned From the Death of One of My Loyal Readers
This lesson is my mantra every day. Life is not about what happens to you but how you react. And that’s something that seems minor, but it’s not. There are authentic living legends, Michael Jordans and Venus Williams, of this game called life. People who, if reality were a video game, would play it in inferno…
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If Someone Demands Too Much of You, Read This
The truth of the examiners. Beware of examiners. And who are they? Those are the gravediggers of dreams, the castrators of wills, and the modern slavers of souls—beings of double standards which apply the Judeo-Christian culture of receiving and forget the gospel of giving. But they evangelize so that the other -always the other- submit…
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Three Subtle Signs That You Are a Bad Person
“Don’t invest your time with people who don’t invest it in themselves.” “Whoever does not know the sewers of himself, ends up splashing and drowning in them.” — Mario Mendoza To make this article, I have interviewed the worst human being I know: myself. Correction: the worst version of myself, the one that fortunately I am no longer,…
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The Navajo Indian Saying That Changed My Life Forever
Native American wisdom to make it big in life. There is an old Navajo tribal saying that changed my life entirely at a time when I was paralyzed by fear and doubt. The saying is short and straightforward but is of unfathomable mystical and spiritual depth. It goes like this, “Jump, and the floor will appear.”…