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#5: Determine the quality of your life

In many ways, most people’s happiness, peace and love are mortgaged to the external situation.

So, if the stock market goes up you are happy, if the stock market goes down you are unhappy. But the quality of life is not about what is around you.

Living joyfully and peacefully is not new to you. You were like that as a child, isn’t it? So, I am not talking about taking you beyond, I am just talking about starting at the square one of your life.

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The difference between a fool and an intelligent person is that an intelligent person knows how foolish he is; a fool does not.

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#4: Choose to live intelligently

Within yourself, is it more pleasant to be loving, or to be angry, hateful and jealous? Which is a more intelligent way to exist? Loving, isn’t it? All I am saying is, please live intelligently.

This is not for someone else’s sake. It is pleasant and beautiful for you. Creating a loving wo...

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#6: There is intelligence in humility

Noticing the stupidity of who you are is great intelligence.

Anything in this existence – a tree, a blade of grass, a grain of sand, one single atom – do you understand any of these things fully? No. When this is your level of intelligence and perception, how should you wa...

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#2: Break the status quo

Look at life in terms of what can be changed and do something about it.

  • Crying about things that you cannot change is a sure strategy to remain at status quo.

At least once a month, identify one small thing about yourself that you want to change. Like,

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#1: Kill Your Lies

Just spend a minute to identify at least one thing in your life that is not necessary and kill that today.

You must kill something about you that is unnecessary for your life.

Identify something specific that you will be better off without, where you can take a conc...

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You are mortal and it is ticking away. So there is no time for frustration, depression, anxiety, anger or for any unpleasantness in this life.

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Decide on something that you can do and that you will do. This is how to transform your life – by taking small steps.

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#7: There is no good and bad

Your inner world – if you want to call it that – should only be a reflection of what is around you. You get corrupted by what is around you only when you have opinions about everything.

You look at one thing as good, something else as bad. You get attached to what you consi...

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#3: Remember you are mortal

A significant thing every human being has to do is structure their psychological and emotional framework around the most fundamental fact of their life – their mortality.

Right now, it takes a lifetime for people to understand that they are mortal; they need a heart attack...

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