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Standards Destroy Creativity And Spontaneity

“You have standards”. What does it mean to have standards? Does it not mean to have limits? Yes, you limit (save) yourself from the possibility of producing substandard work. You also limit yourself from the possibility of producing something brilliant. Do your standards predict genius? Do your standards encapsulate the genius?   Standards destroy creativity. …

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The Truth About Plans and TO-DO Lists

The truth about TO-DO lists is that you can’t complete them.   Why can you not complete those lists? Does this fact render them entirely useless? Let’s enquire.   On the basic level – you make a TO-DO list in order to… KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TO DO. Nothing fancy. You make a list of …

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You Couldn’t Have Done More

“I could have done more” Could you really? If it truly is so, then please answer me one question: WHY DIDN’T YOU?   Oh yes. You just didn’t. You say: “I could have done more but I DIDN’T.” You say you will have done more the next time. Now there is the past, the present …

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Excuses Only Indicate Confusion

You have many excuses not to do something. But you want to do this thing. Or you “have to” do this thing. You use excuses to escape the doing of the thing, the doing of something. You find temporary comfort in the lie of your excuse. Until you realise your excuse was… well – just …

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To Approach The World Empty

You are nothing which becomes something, when in relationship with the world. If you embrace (accept) that you are nothing — you are free to be anything, yet unattached! If you think you are something – the world will be a constant disappointment and grief – for it will never validate your image of yourself. …

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no single way to choose

I look back at my life and the lives of others and now that I can see — I don’t see THE ONE WAY TO CHOOSE, or nothing pompous like that, stripped of illusions of becoming – there is no single way to choose, nor is there ANY way — there is only the fact …

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