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Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
We should take wandering outdoor walks, so that the mind might be nourished and refreshed by the open air and deep breathing. —Seneca, On Tranquility of Mind, 17.8
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Philosophy isn't a parlor trick or made for show. It's not concerned with words, but with facts. It's not employed for some pleasure before the day is spent, or to relieve the uneasiness of our leisure. It shapes and builds up the soul, it gives order to life, guides action, shows what and shouldn't be done — it sits at the rudder steering our course as we vacillate in uncertainties. Without it, no one can live without fear or free from care. Countless things happen every hour that require advice, and such advice is to be sought out in philosophy. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.26
Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
The source of all creation is pure consciousness, pure potentiality seeking expression from the unmanifest to the manifest.
And when we realize that our true Self is one of pure potentiality, we align with the power that manifests everything in the universe.
In the beginning there was neither existence nor non existence. All this world was unmanifest energy. The One breathed, without breath, by Its own power Nothing else was there ~ Hymn of Creation, The Rig Veda
Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
As you gain more and more access to your nature, you will also spontaneously receive creative thoughts because the field of pure potentiality is also the field of infinite creativity and pure knowledge. Franz Kafka, the Austrian philosopher and poet, once said,
"You need not leave your room. Remain sitting on your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait. You need not even wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll ecstasy at your feet."
