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Take any moment when you feel really fulfilled and examine it closely. Down under the joy, you will find that subtle, all-pervasive undercurrent of tension that no matter how great this moment is, it is going to end. No matter how much you ...more
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“I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, my work, my family to mean something. If you are not making someone else’s life better you are wasting your time. Your life will only become better by helping make other lives better.”
Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

Adyashanti
“Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is. End of story.”
Adyashanti, Emptiness Dancing

“Sigmund Freud was once asked what people need in order to be able to live a full and happy life. His reply was three words: “Lieben und arbeiten.” Love and work. Work”
Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

Gabor Maté
“It is worth recalling here that the injudicious use of rewards and praise can be pressure tactics no less than verbal or physical coercion. As we have seen, there are three dangers with motivating by means of reward and praise. First, they feed the anxiety that not the person but the desired achievement is what is valued by the parent. They directly reinforce the insecurity of the ADD child. Second, since children can sense the parents’ will pushing them, even if under benign disguises such as gifts or warm words, counterwill will be strengthened. Third, praise and reward will themselves become the goal, at the expense of the child’s interest in the actual process of what he is doing. Children thus motivated will sooner or later learn to get by with the least amount of effort necessary to earn the praise or the reward. Short cuts and cheating often follow. Accepting”
Gabor Maté, Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It

A.H. Almaas
“When are you going to let yourself descend from your lofty preoccupations, and simply land where you are?”
A.H. Almaas, Diamond Heart: Being and the Meaning of Life

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