The "80 Percent Rule" posted by Jason A. Williams on Twitter:
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"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves." -- Rainer Maria Rilke
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"There are at least 4 types of wealth:
-) Financial wealth (money)
-) Social wealth (status)
-) Time wealth (freedom)
-) Physical wealth (health)
Be wary of jobs that lure you in with 1 and 2, but rob you of 3 and 4." -- James Clear
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"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." -- Henry Miller
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"The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning." -- Henry David Thoreau
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"I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it." -- Vincent Van Gogh
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"Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets. Unwavering honesty will help seal in trust. An honest friend is someone who wants nothing at all from you." -- Kevin Kelly
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"Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time." -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Shinzen Young on the importance of cultivating a meditation/mindfulness practice:
"Concentration power impacts every aspect of your day because there is no part of human experience that is not affected by our degree of presence and focus."
"Because meditation elevates your base level of concentration power and because concentration power facilitates all human endeavors, the question 'what's meditation good for?' has a simple answer: meditation is good for everything."
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"There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one." -- Kazuo Ishiguro
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Another true and insightful quote from James Clear about weakness:
"You can ignore your weaknesses, but you can't expect them to not impact you. The weakness of the coach shapes the players. The weakness of the teacher influences the students. The weakness of the parent molds the child."
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Tunnel 29 by Helena Merriman is the most harrowing true story I've read in a long time and it's more relevant than ever. For those of us who are too young to have experienced the cold war first hand, it is a reminder of the stark differences between communism/socialism and capitalism. In the escape story of East Berliners to the West it becomes crystal clear, how much suffering, fear and terror the overreach of government can inflict on individuals, families and whole societies. Unfortunately history tends to repeat itself, people forget, stories remain untold. It's our duty to learn from the past and to not make the same mistakes. Reading Tunnel 29 and spreading the message is a step along this path.
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James Clear's suggestions for orchestrating a peaceful moment:
-) Close your eyes and just breathe for two minutes.
-) Leave your phone in another room for an hour.
-) Watch a cloud form and then dissolve.
-) Stand in the sunshine and notice how it warms your skin.
-) Light a candle and watch the flame dance.
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"Don't get bored with peace. Be in it. Go deeper into it. Look between your thoughts." -- Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Mark Manson on discipline:
"Discipline is conditioning your brain to not give a shit if it’s hard or it hurts or it sucks. If it needs to get done, it gets done. Doing hard things is a habit that must be practiced, or, like all habits, it will be lost."
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Kind of a no-brainer, but a lot of people seem to forget this:
"When you argue with reality, you loose." -- Byron Katie
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"Free people make free choices. Free choices mean you get unequal outcomes.
You can have freedom, or you can have equal outcomes. You can't have both." -- Naval
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"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." -- Swedish proverb
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C.S. Lewis on the importance of small decisions and acts:
"Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible."
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"Paths are made by walking." -- Franz Kafka
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