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Maximum Willpower: How to Master the New Science of Self-Control by Kelly McGonigal

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TO SUCCEED AT SELF-CONTROL, YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW YOU FAIL

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“A deeper significance is attached to sacrifice, when the worshipping self and the gods worshipped are realised to be the same.”
― Satischandra Chatterjee, An Introduction to Indian Philosophy

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“Brahman cannot be an object of worship even.”
― Satischandra Chatterjee, An Introduction to Indian Philosophy

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“Without goals and aspirations, discipline is going to feel like pointless suffering.”
― Peter Hollins, The Science of Self-Discipline: The Willpower, Mental Toughness, and Self-Control to Resist Temptation and Achieve Your Goals

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“this conception is panentheism—(pan—all, en—in, theos—God), not pantheism; all is not equal to God, but all is in God, who is greater than all.”
― Satischandra Chatterjee, An Introduction to Indian Philosophy

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“Brahman (or Ātman) is also described in many passages not as Creator, but as a Reality”
― Satischandra Chatterjee, An Introduction to Indian Philosophy

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