Embrace new levels of profound simplicity and reintroduce creativity as a replacement for things and mindless entertainment.
The one person with a vested interest in how your life turns out is you.
The basic understanding of anatta, or ‘no-self’ – the absence of an inherently existing self – is one of the most difficult concepts to work with. A mistaken view of self is said to be more harmful than greed or even hatred, because even those states are rooted in this basic illusion. Our experience of self is central to how we go about in the world, and all kinds of unskillful actions come out of an incorrect understanding of it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
— Albert Einstein (via mikeambs)
”Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
— Nicolas Chamfort
In forgiveness lies the stoppage of the wheel of Karma.
— Law of One
You tend to get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact; and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.
— Steve Jobs
Gratitude in advance is the most powerful creative force in the universe.
— Neale Walsch
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything…all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure…these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.
— Steve Jobs
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
— Elbert Hubbard
