Tag: Mindfulness
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Three Invaluable Lessons I Learned in My Forties That I Would Have Paid Millions to Know Early in Life
“Beauty is overrated.” There are things that money can’t buy. — But only when you have the money will you know what they are. One of them is happiness, understood as a state of peace of mind and not of euphoria, a form of serene joy, which in your twenties would seem boring to you, but when…
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The Disturbing Life Lesson I Learned From Reading the Bible That I Wish I Had Known at 20
Millennial wisdom for today’s life. Sometimes, it’s not about things making sense; it’s about the reason you make things. In my twenties, I did it all the wrong way. I remember those years as living constantly with my glasses fogged up. My gaze distorted everything I did: good things seemed terrible and boring, and bad things…
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10 Disturbing Lessons I Learned Giving Advice to Thousands of Readers for 8 Years
These are real lessons for real life. I had a nightmare tonight. I was a cashier at a supermarket, and my job was to teach customers how to use an electronic machine that would eventually replace me. The machine (instead of cashing out) was giving people advice. Then I time-traveled in the dream to 2027 and…
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Three Signs That You Are Not “a Loner”: You Are an Old Soul
#3. You don’t fall into the trap of materialism. As a kid, we all like to be seen as too mature for our age. As you get older, it sucks. They tell you things like, “You used to be cool,” “You’re turning into your dad,” or my favorite, “You’re going to end up being the old…
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Three Disturbing Truths That Will Make You Want To Sleep With The Lights On
#1. The mind can normalize the abnormal to survive. Sometimes, my life is like a sitcom full of bad jokes that make everyone laugh except me, the central character to whom all the misfortunes happen. And it’s a bummer because life can’t be edited with Adobe Premiere, and delete the parts that embarrass us before publishing…
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The Most Underrated Benefit of the Law of Attraction
#The power of hope. Hell is like an underground Mall you enter through an elevator. The lower you go, the higher the horror you experience. Floor (-1): you lost your job. Floor (-2): your partner asks for a divorce. Floor (-3): you lose your friends. . . . Floor (-100): you are broke as f*ck: no…
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Three Disturbing Quotes by Haruki Murakami That Give Me Goosebumps
Discover the pearls of wisdom from one of the greatest novelists ever. Reading Murakami always has a disturbing effect on me. Murakami speaks to me of existential emptiness and loneliness and a dream world we can’t understand, which exists and is just as accurate as the real one. And although sometimes it scares me, I…
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The Dalai Lama’s Mind-blowing Technique for Dealing With Worries That Changed My Life Forever
“Happiness is achieved by taming the mind; without it, it is impossible to be happy.” Today, anxiety shows me its gleaming toothpaste model teeth. Anxiety smiles at me because it wants to sell me something. A new toothbrush from Oral-B? No. What it wants is not to sell; it wants to buy. Anxiety wants to buy…
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Healing is a slow but not impossible process.
Healing is a slow but not impossible process. Healing is a long road that seems eternal, making us retrace our steps, feel awkward and thick, and go down a thousand dead ends, but walking it is worth the effort. The problem is to believe that this road has to arrive somewhere for you to be…
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The Spiritual Habit That Would Put You Above 99% of People In Terms of Happiness
The life lesson that Marcus Aurelius would have liked to know. There are days when you wake up, and instead of writing in the gratitude journal, you would set it on fire. Days when you meditate, and the only mantra your mind repeats is “Om f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck padme hum “:-) Days when you…