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Realized or not, understood or not, you're the source of your own
experience. Create satisfaction - right now. Being dissatisfied
is evidence you've abdicated your responsibility for your own
experience.
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Whatever emotions you're having, both lows and highs, notice
them, let them be. Don't interfere. At most, just say what
emotions you're having. Don't dramatize. Keep your fingers out of
the
machinery.
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Although we don't ordinarily refer to it this way, consider
who you really
are
isn't that thing you call
"I".
Distinguishing between
who you really are
and that thing you call
"I"
is a potent magic wand. Wave it magnanimously.
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The past runs you if it's incomplete. Rather than complain about
the past, say something powerful to complete it.
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Be generous to someone you're stuck with. If that doesn't free
you, be generous some more until it does.
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It's time to clean out your attic, your closet, your garage, and
your basement. It's an illusion all that junk stays stored there.
You're really dragging it around with you everywhere you go.
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Take an inventory of everything you do to fill your time in order
to
distract
yourself, in order to avoid being here. Commit to giving all that
up.
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Wealth
is a function of what you bring to Life, not what you amass from
it. Stop pretending it's otherwise.
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As soon as you
awake
in the morning, get up immediately and start your day. There's no
better time. There's no other time either. This
is it.
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Ante up at the table where they're playing
the only game in
town.
The cost of one chip is your act. That's
high
stakes
for most. When you reach the place where it's chump
change for you, you know you're playing from win.
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If you get life is empty and meaningless, and you use it to
justify not taking action, you ain't got it. In fact
empty and meaningless is a source of great power and
dynamism.
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Start by expanding basic, good, common, decent self respect into
Self
awe. If you're hearing this as selfishness,
egotism,
and narcissism, go back and start over. If you're
already in awe of
Self,
it's no big deal.
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A player catches the ball and runs with it. A
mensch acknowledges whom he got it from.
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Don't tell me you can't live without me. I say that's not true.
The truth you're not telling me is you can't live with yourself.
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Consider it possible the personal issues you have and don't want
which won't disappear, are the ones you keep on chattering about.
Consider it possible the only reason they won't disappear is you
keep on chattering about them.
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Who you're being is what you leave people with.
Your intelligence, your rationality, your
street-smart-ness, your education, your erudition,
your good will, your caring are irrelevant
next to who you're being.
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Show me the condition of your cupboards, your drawers, and your
shelves, and I'll tell you how you make love.
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Notice how simple things don't attract your interest. You've
sussed life as complicated. Perhaps it's your
sophistication which is getting in the way of your
life working.
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Having a plan, understanding a way, devising a strategy, or
engaging in a conversation for living life fully is the minor
leagues. Actually living life fully without acknowledgement,
approval, or appreciation is the majors.
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Steal this from me. I've already stolen it from someone else. By
stealing it from me, you return it to me in spades.
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If I could hold you until your tears stop, I would. But that
won't enable you to
transform
your own tears by yourself when I'm not around.
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You're not a Chinese philosopher dreaming he's a butterfly.
Neither are you a butterfly dreaming he's a Chinese philosopher.
You're the one listening this.
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Here's the difference between your life's work, and
everything else you do: if you're still alive, your life's work
ain't done yet.
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You don't need a
crucible
in which to manufacture Life. Life
shows up
in your
ears.
The first step toward killing Life off is stopping listening.
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A)
Imagine
these are the final ten minutes of your time on
Earth.
Who will you call to thank for making the biggest difference in
your life? B) Why haven't you already done so?
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The inside
scoop
on achieving ecstasy is you already got it. The most in
synch you can be with another human being is to bear
witness to their already ecstasy.
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If you think I'm lying, you're not listening to anything I'm
saying. If you think I'm speaking the truth, you're not listening
to anything I'm saying.
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You wash bugs off your car's windshield so you can see clearly
through it when you drive. Why treat your integrity any
differently?
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Seriously though, is there anything you're familiar with besides
Life itself which fills you up by emptying you out?
What else is there? What else have you got?
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Would you rather have a tiger by the tail, or a bull by the horns?
Personally I'd rather ride a horse in the direction he's going.
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I'm not a disciple. Nor am I a follower. I'm not a student
either. If you must label me with anything at all, then please
call me
friend.
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As a policy of telling the no nonsense truth, make a
point of acknowledging yourself with no added bravado. If
you don't, who will? And if not you, then who?
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"Who am I going to be
today?"
is a far more powerful question to wake up into than "What am I
going to do today?". The latter dictates your activities. The
former declares the
context
for your life.
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Stand in the possibility that anything you think or assume is
going on with another person, is nothing more than an assessment
in your own mind, your own
private movie
which has no correlation whatsoever with reality.
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What's the point? You're the point! That's the point.
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I left my heart in San Francisco. Then I left it in
Fiji.
Then I left it in
the Amazon jungle.
Then I left it in the
Napa Valley.
Then I left it in Hawai'i. Then I left it in
London.
Then I left it in Tokyo. I left my heart everywhere.
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You'll never get it all done.
Anticipate
you'll die with tasks still incomplete on your to do
list. That's a playing field for a very big game.
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Just when you're feeling smug that you got it, you discover you
haven't got it. Then just when think you've lost it forever, you
realize you got it again. It's
elusive.
Dance
with it.
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People form opinions about you based on the answers you give.
They know you based on the questions you ask. They love you based
on the vulnerability you are.
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I'm not ignoring you. Rather I invite you to try on the
possibility that me simply and completely listening your request
may actually be more useful to you than me agreeing to do what
you're asking.
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If someone comes to the door looking for me saying they know
me, send them away. If they come back looking for me again saying
nothing, let 'em in.
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Both sadness and happiness without me as
cause in the
matter,
are like two mutts straying by occasionally. The one who'll stay
is the one I leave bones out for.
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Promise yourself you won't buy into your own pettiness ever
again. Declare it's over. Notice the next time you're being
petty, and
keep your word.
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It takes a certain
bigness
to admit you're not
upset
with the person you're
upset
with. You're really
upset
with whom the person you're
upset
with reminds you of.
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For me it's sufficient just to be alive. I don't have to add a
single thing to the experience for it to be worthwhile. The most
enjoyable quality for me about Life itself is the mere fact that
it
shows up
at all.
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