The 7 Lessons

1. Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind.
2. Do nothing out of guilt, or for prestige, status, money or approval alone.
3. Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words.
4. Build pockets of stillness into your life.
5. Maya Angelou famously said, ‘When people tell you who they are, believe them’. But even more importantly, when people try to tell you who you are, don’t believe them.
6. Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. As Annie Dillard memorably put it, “how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
7. Debbie Millman captures our modern predicament beautifully: “Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time.” 

_Maria Popova

on Love

Summing it up... ways to get real!

“1. Don’t try to piss quietly. Nobody in a public restroom thinks you’re knitting in your stall. They came to piss, just like you. And if you have to take a dump, do it. Get over your fear of public toilets. It’ll make life a lot easier.

2. Masturbate. Masturbate a lot. Talk about it with your friends. You’ve got the right to make yourself feel good and brag about it just like all the boys with extra large kleenex packages on their desks.

3. Laugh as loud as you have to, no matter if you snort or gasp or literally scream.

4. Always remember you weren’t born to visually please others. It's your body, take care of it and have fun with it!

5. Speak your mind! You can learn to do so without insulting others or shoving your opinion down other people’s throats.

6. You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

7. Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

8. Life does go on, and it can be better tomorrow. Believe and do something about it.”
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FROM 
http://saraminna.wordpress.com  
 

Everybody's gotta learn sometime

Because we start from nothing and at the end, all we get to take with us are the lessons learned,

the experiences lived and shared.

Our body is borrowed. At the end of our life we give it back.

We should do our best to take care of it, but don't get to attached to it. It is just a body.

It's our choice what to do with our life, how to feel and what to create with what we have.

Pay attention to what you're holding on to. You will look back...

In Life, things are guaranteed to get hard, yet you are not alone in this. Suffering is part of everyone's life assignment. Like mud to the lotus flower. Don't quit, find love, find that sunshine.

There is no wrong or right path, every path you take is a choice that will lead you somewhere.

Every decision changes you and takes you where you're meant to be. 

But try, every time, to choose Love over fear.

... take care of your dreams.

Play : ) specially when it's not funny!

“When we look deep into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds there could be no rain, and there would be no flower.”
—
Thich Nhat Hanh

Gently awakenning... to a New World: your own.

"It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it's dense, isn't it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns, see? So in the same way, there was a big bang at the beginning of things and it spread. And you and I, sitting here in this room, as complicated human beings, are way, way out on the fringe of that bang. We are the complicated little patterns on the end of it. Very interesting. But so we define ourselves as being only that. If you think that you are only inside your skin, you define yourself as one very complicated little curlique, way out on the edge of that explosion. Way out in space, and way out in time. Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are. Depends how you define yourself. You are actually - if this is the way things started, if there was a big bang in the beginning - you're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. When I meet you, I see not just what you define yourself as - Mr so-and-so, Ms so-and-so, Mrs so-and-so - I see every one of you as the primordial energy of the universe coming on at me in this particular way. I know I'm that, too. But we've learned to define ourselves as separate from it. ”
―
Alan W. Watts