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Does a painful awareness of your own mortality help you lead a more fulfilling life? If it does, how do you keep it from stressing you out? |
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| Deepak Chopra |
People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem. |
| Susan Cain |
Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives. |
| Terry Eagleton |
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed. |
| Joel Osteen |
We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It's ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you. |
| Paulo Coelho |
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. |
| Theodore Dalrymple |
Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices. |
| James Iha |
At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player. |
| Derek Jacobi |
He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age. |
| Brian Tracy |
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. |
| Michael Caine |
I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own. |
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yeah i know what you mean. (i don't drive a car)
i find academia to be much more fulfilling. i still get pretty distracted though...
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Most likely these kinds of experiments are more useful in their assertion that experiential life and even most of science and physics takes place in a collective illusion about the characteristics and function of the universe. Ultimately the only provable observation we can make is that reality displays many layers of information to our awareness and hides others.
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yes i am that way. doing nothing makes me upset.
but stressing about success will always leave you restless and reaching for more and more
the point is that you rid yourself of the modern western ideals because our society as a whole is molded to be continuously dissatisfied with our current positions.
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In addition to the psychological literature there is some information about the psychology of money
available in the financial literature. Close to the beginning of her best selling book, The 9 Steps To
Financial Freedom, financial planner Suze Orman states ? most of my clients biggest problems in life
today - even those that appear on the surface not to be money related - are connected with their early
formative experiences with money.? She recommends to her readers, as the first step toward financial
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I like the psyche distinction. How do you know you did everything you needed to do? What did you need to do?
I always feel like my life would be completely different if I had made a few different decisions and I don't know if I'd be happier or not in those other scenarios. The stress for me comes from trying to avoid missing the decisions that would lead to better scenarios. Every day the things I do have opportunity costs.
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im very aware of my mortality. but im also not fearful of death. i have done everything ive needed to do. if i die, my words will live on and continue to inspire. so im comfortable dying at any time. its the slow death im terrified of
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To traverse the path is to become one with it.
This life is nothing short of an unfolding spark of holistic insight. Today, science tells us that the essence of nature is manna.
We must learn how to lead non-local lives in the face of desire.
The multiverse is calling to you via pulses. Can you hear it? Although you may not realize it, you are psychic. If you have never experienced this vector...
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There is no teaching of mine, and never shall be one. 'Teaching' is not the
word for it. 'Teaching' implies a method or a system, a technique or a new way
of thinking to be applied in order to bring about a transformation in your way
of life. What I am saying is outside the field of teachability; it is simply a
description of the way I am functioning. It is just a description of the natural
state of man -- that is the way you, stripped of the machinations of thought, are
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Humanity stands to be profoundly affected by science and technology in the future. We envision the possibility of broadening human potential by overcoming aging, cognitive shortcomings, involuntary suffering, and our confinement to planet Earth.
We believe that humanity?s potential is still mostly unrealized. There are possible scenarios that lead to wonderful and exceedingly worthwhile enhanced human conditions.
We recognize that humanity faces serious risks, especially from the misuse of new technologies. There are possible realistic scenarios that lead to the loss of most, or even all, of what we hold valuable. Some of these scenarios are drastic, others are subtle. Although all progress is change, not all change is progress.
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"to renounce false judgements would be to renounce life, would be to deny life. To recognize untruth as a condition of life: that, to be sure, means to resist customary value-sentiments in a dangerous fashion; and a philosophy which ventures to do so places itself , by that act alone, beyond good and evil." (Beyond Good and Evil, 333)"
http://atheism.about.com/od/philosophyepistemology/a/Nietzsche_3.htm
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