One needs to first recognise the game played. Most still play the ‘please-mom-please-dad’ game and ‘play-with-toys’ game. ‘Look-good’ game. ‘Stick-in’ game. Success is not as much about ‘secrets of the game’ as it is about the ‘basics of the game’. You just have to know what kind of game you’re playing. …
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That Old, Boring Power
At the end this obsession with power just gets really fucking boring. Power is only exciting for those who don’t have it (and so is everything else you don’t have) Power is the coolest thing in the world for those caught up in their power-games — and the most ordinarily boring to those …
Caught Between: EXPLORATION vs REPUTATION
Life is exploration. World is exploration. Progress is exploration. Discovery is exploration. Exploration comes before discovery. Before result. Before achievement. Before benefits. Before reputation Exploration is salient philosophically, spiritually. Results are subjective. Their relevance is merely relative. Exploration is a way of living, a lifestyle, a life’s philosophy. Fixation with result ruins …
Our Poorness
We live in the most abundant time in the history of mankind. No wonder we’re the poorest. The more we have — the more we could have. Greed creates more greed. Ambition creates more ambition. Need creates more need. Distraction prevents attention. Our material abundance causes us to neglect the spirit. We become spiritually poor, …
Reputation Deters You From Being Wrong
Reputation deters you from being wrong. You are now avert to making mistakes – so that you protect your reputation. But when you’re unwilling to be wrong — not only do you prevent yourself from learning — you also begin the movement of delusion. Eventually even the truths you built your reputation on become corrupted. …
every single one of us had seen things which UTTERLY SHATTER our notion of what-we-know
every single one of us had seen things which UTTERLY SHATTER our notion of what-we-know some of us emerge crippled some of us emerge LIBERATED most of us just cover our ears and eyes every single one of us had seen things which UTTERLY SHATTER our notion of what-we-know to some …
Expectations Promise Mediocrity
Expectations promise mediocrity. Every expectation is a seed of countless limitations. Every limitation is a drop from the heights of true excellence. For the highest excellence to come into being – the path must be clear of impediments. Every idea you have about the outcome will limit you drastically. To excel one must forget …
Don’t Sell Yourself
I found myself wondering if he was being disingenuous or… just selling. And then I realised it meant the same thing. It’s often the same thing You sell your stuff to someone, you sell yourself to others… Before you know it you lose track of which part of you is for sale and which …
Life NOT as a Game
Life may be a game to some but to make a game out of it is to devalue it. The more seriously you take yourself and your story and the game you play in this world — the more does the moment lose it’s magic. You can’t take the world seriously and retain …
You’re Not An Exception
You’re not an exception. If you are – prove it ten times over. There are many flimsy reasons to believe oneself to be special but very few real ones. Check ten times before you dismiss a well-proven general rule. The reason to break all the rules is to break them, not your narcissistic whims …