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We are highly judgmental survival-and-replication machines. We constantly walk around thinking, “I need this,” or “I need that,” trapped in the web of desires. Happiness is the state when nothing is missing. When nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and stops running into the past or future to regret something or to plan something.
How do you learn to accept things you can’t change?
Fundamentally, it boils down to one big hack: embracing death.
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Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow.
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“I don’t have time” is just another way of saying “It’s not a priority.”
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...when you’re thirty, what advice would you give your twenty-year-old self? And when you’re forty, what advice would you give your thirty-year-old self? (Maybe if you’re younger, you can do it by every five years.)
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The Tao Te Ching says it’s all duality and polarity.
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In the grand scheme of things, the Universe has been around for ten billion years. Your life is a firefly blink in a night. You’re here for such a brief period of time. If you fully acknowledge the futility of what you’re doing, then it can bring great happiness and peace because you realize this...
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Happiness is really a default state. Happiness is there when you remove the sense of something missing in your life. Happiness is the state when nothing is missing. When nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and stops running into the past or future to regret.
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