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// When we learn to endure not knowing and not being in control, we gain access to a wiser part of ourselves.

It’s in its nature to be in constant flux.

It's a gift to be able to rest in trust when life becomes uncertain, to be comfortable with not knowing. //

// Don't forget: responsibility — the ability to respond.

You're mindful enough to respond in an open manner. Which is also, as a rule, by default a wiser plan of action. //

"You won't always have what you want, but you'll always have what you need.”

// Listen, if you don't unquestioningly believe everything you think, if you're completely mindful (and only when you are), if your attention is unfettered, you will discover a fundamental truth. That the universe operates according to this principle:

You will know
what you need to know
when you need to know it //

// Slightly less control. Slightly more trust. Slightly less I need to know everything beforehand. Slightly more take life as it comes. It does all of us a world of good.

Life doesn't have to be lived with constant anxiety about things not turning out the way we want.

We don't have to make ourselves smaller than we are. We have a choice.//

// Right. I was clenching my fist too hard again. I was imagining I knew what the world should look like. And when it didn't conform to my ideas, I seized up. Thoughts with the word should' in them make me small, dull and lonely. //

// at the end of the day, it's the thoughts we have real trouble letting go of that tend to harm us the most. //

// Listening without prejudice or judgement can help us understand ourselves. And that's no small thing. There's something there. //

// They also have a tendency continually to assess and review what I say. My opinions and perspectives are approved to the extent that they confirm and agree with their worldview. There's no magic being made there. Put another way, people like that aren't fun to be around. //

// Opening up to a Rabbit, a person who clings to what they think they already know, rarely gives me any pleasure.
I usually end up feeling as if they're not listening, as if they're too busy thinking about what they're going to say the second I finally stop talking. //

// And there I sat, all but mesmerised by a bright yellow and hot pink Hello Kitty dispenser.

At the very bottom, around the base of the cylinder, I was delighted to discover a few words in English. The text read:

‘Knowledge is proud of all it knows. Wisdom is humble before all it doesn't know'

Who would have thought it! //

//as a wise man called Albert Einstein once said: The rational mind is a servant. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.//

// “while I have thoughts, I am not my thoughts.”

Thoughts are not a problem in and of themselves, of course. But automatically, uncritically identifying with every passing thought - that's a huge problem. The untrained mind often does this. We feel that our identity and our thoughts are inextricably linked.//

// I felt so powerful and proactive. It might have been the first decision I ever made all by myself, without anxiously glancing over my shoulder, wondering what people would think. //

//A job, what we spend our days doing, has to nourish and stimulate some deeper part of our being. That type of nourishment is rarely derived from success. Rather, it comes from feeling connected to the people you work with, feeling that your work has meaning, that your talents are somehow making a difference.//

//a young person in search of my adult life. That often means working with what you've got. Sometimes, there's an element of play-acting involved, like pretending you're more interested in something than you really are.//

Det är bara döda människor som har det helt tyst i huvudet. Levande människor har ett intellekt och intellektets natur är att producera idéer, jämföra dem med andras, formulera dem och ompröva dem.