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21 Quick Lessons From My 92-year-old Grandfather to Be Happy When Everything Goes to Hell
#11. Never forget where you started, or you’ll be back to the hole you escaped. For my grandfather, being happy was a matter of survival. He had to learn to be resilient and optimistic during the war and the subsequent forty years of military dictatorship. Every time I think of him, I remember him smiling. As…
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The Dark Side of Being a Highly Spiritual Person
#3. Life Lessons only Highly spiritual individuals know. The worst part of being highly spiritual is knowing too much. Highly spiritual beings see behind the scenes of the matrix. They know the trick. And that prevents them from really enjoying the magic of innocence. Highly spiritual people seem naive, but they aren’t. Even when people…
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The Disturbing Theory About Potential Futures That Will Blow Your Mind
And the relation with your manifestation power. The only thing that does not change is the changing nature of the world. That premise has led me to think of the following disturbing theory. Theory: Nothing can move from state A to state B if state B does not exist. Visualize your favorite mug (mine is…
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Three Subtle Ways I Was Ruining My Life Without Realizing It
Learn from my mistakes before it’s too late. There are many ways to ruin your life, but not all are obvious. When I smoked three packs a day, drank a bottle of whiskey every night, and slept with any stranger who said something nice to me. I knew I would pay for all of that. But…
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Three Mind-blowing Quotes by Eckart Tolle That Makes Me Regain My Calm When Life Hits Me All at Once
The spiritual mindset that will help you overcome people’s betrayals. Yesterday, a reader wrote me this private message Hello, AG! I suppose that many people like me write to you. I read daily what you write and many times you hit the nail on the head, because you manage to lift my spirits. When one…
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10 Sad Lessons to Live a Happy Life
#3. No one will remember you 150 years from now. Growing up happens over time; maturing only happens if you take advantage of it. The more you mature, the happier you are because you can stop giving too much importance to things you can’t change or that don’t matter. To mature, you need to get up…
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Three Quotes From Best-selling Author David Sedaris That Will Change the Way You Look at Reality
#3. Feeling the need to be perfect does not make you perfect. David Sedaris is the funniest humor writer in the world. What sets him apart from others is his brutal honesty about his life. David never tells you what to think. He writes things as he lived them and leaves it up to you to…
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The Cold, Hard, Spiritual Truth That Has Improved My Life Overnight
“My heartburn became my Guru”. In 2023, I gave myself the gift of no. And since then, I say, without remorse, no to any proposal I don’t feel like. The good thing about being over forty years old is that you start not to care if people get angry when you reject their proposals. When they…
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Three Struggles That Are Way Too Real If You Grew Up An Old Soul
#1. Adults avoided you Every time I think of my crappy childhood and my later youth (no less horrifying), a voice inside me whispers. “You chose to be a writer; what would you write about without an interesting life? In the next life, choose to be an accounting consultant. Your accounting consultant, Carl, always smiles in…
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The Mind-blowing Bible Lesson That Restores My Self-esteem Every Time I Don’t Feel I’m Not Enough
And makes work the attraction law. When your life is a pimple the size of a golf ball, the first thing you have to do is to pop it. Thanks to the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, I popped that pimple. And all the pus (my sins) came out of me. Since then,…