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The Time Paradox
What we want changes over time.
But our deepest desires - to be loved, to be validated - never change.
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Zen & Paradoxes
Being Zen is all about learning to live with ambiguity and paradoxes. Life is too complex to be understood using reason. The truth lies beyond words. But ...
What if we didn’t need an explanation for everything?
Zen Kōans, riddles that makes no sense, serve ...
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The Intensity Paradox
The more intensely you desire something, the harder it seems to attain.
If you don’t desire something with enough intensity, you never do what's required to attain it.
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The Risk Paradox
We desire comfort, security, and safety.
But nothing we desire can be obtained without risk.
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The Pain Paradox
Desire creates pain in our lives.
But living a life void of desire is equally, if not more, painful.
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The Uncertain Future
Long-term planning is harder than it seems because people’s goals and desires change over time.
We’re such poor forecasters of our future selves that there’s a term for this phenomenon: The End of History Illusion. We’re aware of how much we’ve changed in t...
Highlight your time every night
Everyone improves with a lesson learned from a failure. If we missed out on the data on how we performed we will never be able to change our errors. To miss out on the errors all we need to do is, gather our daily activities. What we did, how much time we did.
And there comes the ‘highlight...
Relation Of Human With Time (Memory)
"Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears. As such, memory is another evidence that we have a flexible and creative relation to time, the guiding principle being not the clock but the qualitative significance o...
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