Where to look when you… want to find self awareness

A Good friend is much cheaper than therapy- and ten times as helpful
101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting: How to Make Your Life More Enjoyable Day-by-Day, Year-by-Year by Ernie Zelinski

"People report being happier when they are with friends than when they're with a spouse or child,"

according to research cited in a recent cover story in Psychology Today magazine. This indeed, is something to ponder seriously. To repeat, people actually experience greater joy while spending time with their friends than while spending time with their children or their mates. This should give you an idea of the value of friendship.

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The Law of Pure Potentiality Part 4

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

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July 28th: Check your privilege

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Some people are sharp and others dull; some are raised in a better environment, others in worse, the latter, having inferior habits and nurture, will require more by way of proof and careful instruction to master these teachings and to be formed by them — in the same way that bodies in a bad state must be given a great deal of care when perfect health is sought. — Musonius Rufus, Lectures, 1.1.33-1.3.1-3

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If you think you are beaten, you are,

If you think you dare not, you don't,

If you like to win, but you think can't

It is almost certain you won't.

If you think you'll lose, your lost

For out of the world we find,

Success begins with a fellows' will-

It's all in a state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are,

You've got to think high to rise,

You've got to be sure of yourself before

You can ever win a prize.

Life's battles don't always go

To the stronger or faster man,

But soon or late the man who wins

Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!

~ Vince Lombardi ~

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The Law of Pure Potentiality Part 2
Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

Power based on object-referral, however, is false power. Being ego-based power, it lasts only as long as the object of reference is there. If you have a certain title - if you're the president of the country of the chairman of a corporation - or if you have a lot of money, the power you enjoy goes with the title, with the job, with the money. Ego-based power will only last as long as those things last. As soon as the title, the job, the money go away, so does the power.

Self-power, on the other hand, is permanent, because it is based on knowledge of the Self. And there are certain characteristics of self-power.

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June 2nd: Plato's view

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

How beautifully Plato put it. Whenever you want to talk about people, it's best to take a bird's eye view and see everything all at once- of gatherings, armies, farms, weddings and divorces, births and deaths, noisy courtrooms or silent spaces, every foreign people, holidays, memorials, markets- all blended together and arranged in a pairing of opposites. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.48

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