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6 powerful life reminders - The not so obvious ones Stand on the shoulders of giants, drink some of their wisdom, get inspired, and then go define your life reminder, your purpose strategy, your inner compass. Our noisy world strips us of our sense of choice and agency, so we take the options that we see. We live a reactive life rather than a proactive one, get tossed about by the wild wild west of news and media, think that our MBA--rather than a deeply personal process and agenda--is the source of our knowledge and advancement. But what delusion! You are the filter of the beliefs you obtain, the choices you make, the actions you take. Darling, just fuckin' own it! Here is a collection of powerful reminders that inspired me throughout the years. They reminded me when I needed to be. They reminded me that there is only one way. And that is my way. We all need a shoulder to lean and grow on sometimes. Personally, I am grateful to be standing on their and other powerful shoulders in times when mine need a few more muscles: "The truth is, if our love can hold space for paradox, tension, and disagreement, there's room for all types of beliefs and opinions. Division is a choice. Life isn't a Facebook feed. Our love, our listening, must bring in, not edit out. Dare to listen, dare to be quiet, dare to seek understanding; in the end, it's the people we need to love, not their opinions. How do you listen when you disagree with what’s being said?” - How to disagree "So, to discover whether there actually is or is not something beyond this anxious, guilty, fearful, competitive existence, it seems to me that one must have a completely different approach altogether. The traditional approach is from the periphery inwards, and through time, practice and renunciation, gradually to come upon that inner flower, that inner beauty and love -- in fact to do everything to make oneself narrow, petty and shoddy; peel off little by little; take time; tomorrow will do, next life will do -- and when at last one comes to the centre one finds there is nothing there, because one's mind has been made incapable, dull and insensitive. Having observed this process, one asks oneself, is there not a different approach altogether -- that is, is it not possible to explode from the centre?" -Krishnamurti “What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.” -Allain de Botton "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness—that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what—at last—I have found. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me." -Bertrand Russell Almost done… We just sent you an email. Please click the link in the email to confirm your subscription! OKSubscriptions powered by Strikingly
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Tri strasti, jednostavne, ali iznimno snažne, vladale su mojim životom: želja za ljubavi, potraga za znanjem i neprobojno žaljenje za patnje čovječanstva. Ove su me strasti, kao velika krila, vodile ovamo i onamo, čudnim putem, preko dubokog oceana boli, dosežući sam rub očaja. Želio sam ljubav, kao prvo, jer donosi ekstazu — ekstazu toliko moćnu da bih često žrtvovao cijeli svoj život za tih par sati užitka. Tražio sam ju, uostalom, jer oslobađa od samoće - te strašne samoće u kojoj nečija drhteća svijest gleda s ruba svijeta prema hladnom, beživotnom ponoru. Želio sam ju, na koncu, jer sam u savezu ljubavi vidio, u mističnoj minijaturi, viziju raja koju su sveci i pjesnici zamišljali. To sam želio i, iako se možda čini predobro za ljudski život, to sam, napokon, i pronašao. S jednakom sam strašću potraživao znanje. Želio sam razumjeti srca ljudi. Želio sam znati zašto zvijedze sjaje. I želio sam shvatiti pitagorejsku vještinu prema kojoj broj ima kontrolu iznad tijeka. Dio ovoga, ali ne previše, sam i uspio. Ljubav i znanje, koliko su mogle, nosile su me prema nebesima. No žaljenje me uvijek vratilo natrag na zemlju. Jeke bolnih uzvika odbijaju se u mom srcu. Gladna djeca, mučenici, bespomoćni starci koje njihova vlastita djeca mrze i cijeli svijet samoće, siromaštva i boli prave svinjariju od onoga što bi ljudski život trebao biti. Ja želim iskorijeniti zlo, ali ne mogu, te i ja sam patim. Ovo je bio moj život. Smatram da je vrijedan življenja i rado bih ga ponovo proživio kad bi mi se pružila prilika.