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Destined for More: Cultivating Creativity and Personal Growth
you sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things, but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything aroud you Notes from Underground: Dostoyevsky Reading his book ‘Crime and Punishment‘ really pulls…
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Is the space between thoughts inner peace ?
The more I read, the more I try to understand what is meant by enlightenment. This quote I came across while reading “the almanack of naval ravikant.” It made me realise, with reference to the descriptions made by naval, that mediation is indeed not “peace of mind” but “peace from mind.” Our mind is basically…
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How do we know what to ignore?
the greatest lesson ive learnt was to say no. i tend to set my time spent, or time in the bank, based on what iprioritise. therefore, all my decisions are already pre determined based on the time ive allocated for that specific thing. for example, if my priority is family, then if they were to…
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Do our desires overcome reality? – part 2
part 1 click here The concept of reality has been on my mind lately. I am trying to grasp it as a point of principle. Things are what they are, not what I want them to be, and by things I mean, a table is a table, and not what I desire it be, because…
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Do our desires overcome reality?
feynman’s acceptance of reality over his desire teaches us to; this mentality of accepting reality doesnt mean that you can’t aspire to be more than what you currently are. its the notion of accepting your current circumanstance. be true to yourself, accept it. look at realistic ways to acheive whatever goal you want. accepting is…
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Do our perceived expectations define our sense of self?
there are limiting words and phrases that cause us tension. these include these words give us a delusion that we have no choice but to do what is of expectation, what is enforced by the enviromenment. and by this i mean; all these rigid structures cause us tension in a sense that we lose our…