If You Are Meant To Do It...

Choose something rewarding enough to make you feel good about doing it. If you're having a good time, mistakes feel like learning experiences and challenges to be overcome, not throw-up-your-hands-and-give-up moments.

Not doing anything is generally considered wrong in a society completely dependent on people doing stuff. All the progress that man has made has been due to action. This has given rise to a doing mentality in the developed world.

The trick for any spiritual practic...

Thoughts are like dogs. Your pet likes it when you give it what it wants; it's like you're listening to it. After training, they become organized, attentive, and they listen to you.

When you get a thought, hear it, nurture it, tell the thought what you want, and let it pas...