A hair divides what is false and true.

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.

To wisely live your life, you don't need to know muchJust remember two main rules for the beginning:You better starve, than eat whateverAnd better be alone, than with whoever.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

This is the first and most famous English translation of the The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. As a work of English literature FitzGerald's version of these poems, originally written in the Persian language, is a high point of the 19th century and has been greatly influential.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

Study the past if you would define the future.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Wisdom Quotes

There are some issues with the modern education system.It has some great aspects to it — everyone should be on a similar page in terms of how we operate as a society.But in terms of living as nature intended?It’s a horrible solution for helping people find, learn about, and make a career out of something they care about.The modern education system works against our psyche that is wired for survival.It pushes us to “learn,” memorize, and get trained into a job that has nothing to do with what we spent learning and memorizing.

Modern Education

mass education will never be able to keep up with the digital economy that continues to evolve at an exponential rate.Only those that know how to pursue their curiosity, learn fast, and become “tool-independent” will end up on top.By leaning into your nature — your survival-wired brain — you will begin to reap the benefits of doing so.

Mass Education In The Digital Age

Learning is how you become more aware, conscious, and skilled in the game of life.When you start playing a game for the first time, you learn and ask questions.Asking questions is how you determine if it is worth adopting this new activity into your life.You have routines, lifestyles, social events, habits, errands, and other things that could be impacted by playing this game on a consistent basis.If playing that specific game isn’t perceived as more “fun” or more “valuable” activity than the other games you are playing, why would you make it a constant in your life?

What Learning Ideally Is

Learning is how you uncover the depth that life has to offer.When you first start learning a game (or trying something new in life) you may not like it.It may not make sense to you just yet.You don’t see it as a game. You fixate your focus on the tip of the iceberg and assume that everything under the water serves no purpose.You aren’t giving yourself a chance to find your “why.”Do this enough and you won’t see past the tip of the iceberg of life itself. A shallow existence.You will find yourself ready to quit before you even leave the tutorial.

The Depth Of Life

Whenever I talk about “doing what you want” I always get the same responses.“You mean if I wanted to jump off a bridge I should???”“You mean if I want to be the next Hitler I should?”“You mean it’s okay if people are mass murderers?!?!” Have some common sense and think critically about what you are saying.This brings up the difference between conscious and unconscious living.If you were conscious of the widespread impact of what “becoming the next Hitler” would lead to, you wouldn’t want to do it.

Conscious Vs Unconscious Living

There are specific ways to manipulate your attention or frame your focus with the result of a more enhanced experience.Chemicals like dopamine, adrenaline, and norepinephrine squirt into your brain to reward your pursuits that stem from your nature.<ul><li>Developing your skill set</li><li>Mastering your craft</li><li>Pursuing your vision</li><li>Working towards your goals</li><li>Living by a code of values</li><li>Living in the moment</li></ul>

Live In Accordance With Nature

The only thing more painful than pursuing the highest version of yourself is not pursuing the highest version of yourself

When you pursue your curiosity, fulfill your basic needs, gain a degree of geographical freedom, and consistently make progress — you are psychologically rewarded.<ul><li>Busting out of the trenches of struggle.</li><li>Conquering the challenge.</li><li>Winning the battle in the ever-unfolding story of life.</li><li>Reaching the peak of the mountain.</li><li>Feeling the energy in the drop of a song.</li><li>It’s all the same.</li></ul>

It Feels Good To Do What You Want

The creation pyramid combines the spiritual, psychological, and philosophical teachings that I’ve found to cross over when it comes to life enjoyment. Not only occasionally, but on demand. That is, once you understand the parts of the system. The aspects of the game.All five “C’s” of enjoyment are both tools and tells.You can use and combine them to increase your enjoyment of day-to-day existence.Or you can become aware of them when you are doing things you genuinely enjoy.

The Five Cs Of Life Enjoyment

What do you feel pulled to do?When you feel the pull, what limiting beliefs arrive?From there, pause and question.Don’t let your monkey brain think that your survival is at stake.The death of a belief is not death itself — even when it feels eerily similar.Questioning is how you open up new mental pathways to explore.Questioning is how you expand your consciousness by diving down the rabbit hole of infinity.Questioning is how you dictate what you need to self-educate on next.

Life Enjoyment 5: Curiosity

The cause of most modern problems is clarity.Anxiety, uncertainty, fixed mindsets, closed-mindedness, and the rest are all due to a lack of clarity.Clarity comes down to structure, information, and surrender.Information is abundant and potentially overwhelming, yet necessary.Structuring that information (or ordering consciousness) is how you start to “outline the puzzle.”Surrender and rest usually piece everything together.

Clarity

What you want (goal)
How to get there (clarity)
Why you want to (intention)
When these 3 things fall into place, your choice to act becomes seamless.

In psychology, there is a phenomenon known as pattern recognition. There is also the “construct aware” stage of ego development along with systems thinking as a whole.Connection stems from the ability to zoom out, see the big picture, and recognize patterns, models, constructs, and connections.This is best illustrated as the “aha!” moment (or a series of these moments).Along with curiosity, connection raises dopamine in the brain.

Connection

Challenge is encoded in the system.Challenge is what kicks you into flow.Challenge is what eliminates boredom.We are so afraid as a society to take on new challenges because they threaten the comfort we’ve been conditioned into.If your work, life, or self isn’t challenging you on a consistent basis, your life won’t be interesting and you aren’t making much progress.The Solution:<ul><li>Set a challenging goal</li><li>Gain clarity by breaking it down into smaller goals</li><li>Act with intention by aligning all aspects of your life (mind, body, spirit, business) with those goals.</li></ul>

Challenge

Consciousness is about depth and appreciation. Love.For now, start seeing beyond the surface.Take on the challenge of becoming curious in understanding all of the connections that any given situation presents (so you can gain clarity).While most people perceive a motorcycle as a purposeless death machine — you can make the conscious choice to see beyond that and break out of your unconscious, conditioned emotional reactions to life.

Consciousness

When you find yourself in a bad mood, use the LE5 to your advantage:<ul><li>Question why you are in a bad mood (curiosity)</li><li>Set a goal to reverse the bad mood (challenge)</li><li>Reverse engineer it so you know what to learn (clarity)</li><li>As you learn, observe the excitement that fills your mind as you make new discoveries (excitement)</li><li>Remain conscious during this entire process.</li></ul>

Using The Five Cs Of Life Enjoyment 

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DO NOT STOP WHEN YOU'RE TIRED,STOP WHEN YOU'RE DONE. - DAVID GOGGINS

A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.

The Alchemist

You might have said them yourself, or you might be better acquainted with their cousins “When I get through ____________, I’ll feel better” or “If I just had ______________, life would be great.” We say these words all the time casually, carelessly. They seem innocuous enough, just an expression of a desire or dream. But in fact, this habit of saying “I’ll be happy when …” is far more insidious than it seems on the surface.

“I’ll be happy when …” is insiduous

That’s because “I’ll be happy when …” isn’t just a phrase. It’s a mindset — and that mindset keeps us waiting for happiness instead of cultivating joy in our lives right now. Reaching a milestone can feel good, but eventually we start to look for the next milestone, and then we’re back to thinking “I’ll be happy when …” all over again.

A Mindset That Makes You Unhappy

Happiness<a href="https://ideas.ted.com/4-lessons-from-the-longest-running-study-on-happiness/"> </a>is a broad evaluation of how we feel about our lives over time. It’s synonymous with what psychologists call “subjective well-being” and encompasses a range of different factors, including how we feel about our health and our work, whether we feel we have meaning and purpose in life and how connected we feel to other people.

What Is Happiness?

If happiness is how we feel about our lives over time, joy is how we feel in the moment. Joy is an intense, momentary burst of positive emotion. We can tell we’re experiencing joy because we feel it in our bodies as well as our minds. We smile and laugh, our posture opens, and we may feel warm or light. Joy makes us feel like the best version of ourselves — energized, invigorated, and alive.

What Is Joy?

Because happiness is somewhat big and complex, it’s not always easy to know what will make us happy.Many of us have been conditioned to see happiness as tied to certain big milestones in life such as finding a partner, getting a promotion, buying a house, having a child. We tell ourselves that securing these things will complete the puzzle and give us our “happily ever after.” But the reality is, we’re not always especially good at predicting what will make us happy.It’s also important to note that we don’t actually have a lot of control about how or when these big things happen to us.

Big Milestones Of Life: Often Unpredictable And Uncontrollable

n our pursuit of happiness, we end up postponing joy.

Research has shown that while happiness tends to spike in the wake of this kind of big life event, it tends to return to its natural set point not long after. Reaching a milestone can feel good, but eventually we start to look for the next milestone, and then we’re back to thinking “I’ll be happy when …” all over again.

Happiness Comes Always Back To Its Natural Setpoint

Every time we say to ourselves “I’ll be happy when …” what we’re really saying is “I can’t be happy now.”

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">We put off spending time with the people we love to put in overtime at work so we can get that raise.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">We don’t decorate our rental apartment because we want to save every single penny for a down payment, but in the meantime we live in a boring blank box.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">We put off the trip to Iceland until we have the right partner to go with. But then as we scroll through our Instagram feed, it feels like everyone else is living life while we’re just sitting on the sidelines.</li></ul>

Stop Putting Of Joy In The Present For Uncertain Happiness

<ul><li>makes us passive and stuck</li><li>keeps us waiting for life to happen to us instead of creating a life we want right now. </li><li>keeps us wishing and searching instead of enjoying and living.</li></ul>

The habit of saying “I’ll be happy when …” 

So often we dismiss joy because it seems like a distraction from the big happiness we’re hoping for. But even though moments of joy are small, they do something significant: They expand our world.And whether that happiness comes sooner or later, in the meantime you’re living a full life, one that is rich in joy.

Small Joys To Expand Our World

But what I’ve learned about leaning into the present rather than waiting for the future is that something unexpected always happens. Sometimes it’s adventure, and then you’re left with memories you never would’ve had if you’d just waited for happiness to find you. Other times, we find new friends, new opportunities, new inspiration — things that may actually help you get to the happiness you’re seeking faster or help you uncover a new definition of happiness.

Lean Into The Present For Unexpected To Happen

But I’ve realized that waiting for happiness is a habit, and like any other habit, we can break it. Now, when I catch myself saying some version of “I’ll be happy when …” I try to imagine myself in the future, looking back on right now.Then I ask myself: “How will I wish I’d used this time?” Asking this question always brings me back to joy, because the answer is never “Waiting for things to change.” Usually, it’s more like “Living the best version of my life as it is right now.”

Think Of Waiting For Happiness As An Habit To Break

See, waiting for happiness is often rooted in a kind of perfectionism, which works backwards from an imagined perfect life and measures everything else against it. Anything that falls short of that so-called perfect life is a disappointment. And since perfection is unattainable, even when you do get the thing you were hoping for, you’re constantly operating at a deficit.

Waiting For Happiness = Unhealthy Perfectioni

Joy, on the other hand, starts where you are. Joy begins with a beautifully imperfect life and asks: How can we can make this life more vibrant, more fun, more full of the things that make us excited to wake up in the morning? It’s a creative mindset, not a comparing one.

Enjoy Present Joy = Using You Creative Mindset

Every time you say that or its cousins "If I just had ____" or "When I get through ____", what you’re really saying is “I can’t be happy now.” Author and designer Ingrid Fetell Lee explains why -- and how she broke this habit.

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