Cleon

"You are free to do what you want, but where do your wants come from? ... Where is the freedom in doing what one wants when one's wants are the product of prior causes —which one cannot inspect, and therefore could not choose, and one had absolutely no hand in creating? ... We can't choose what we choose in life. When it seems that we choose what w... See more

Krishnamurti said that a mind that doesn’t ask questions is one that is dead. This also applies to relationships as well. If you’re no longer curious to know about the person in front of you - be it your childhood friend or your father - then that relationship is devoid of life. You can say that you love someone, but if you no longer seek to inquir... See more

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

— Calvin Coolidge

The greatest sign of an ill-regulated mind is to believe things because you wish them to be so.”

— Louis Pasteur

Sometimes, we don’t even have to look for resources to deal with a situation. The solution is obvious. Yet, we start overthinking by diverting our attention to the problem instead of the solution. Instead of accepting the solution right before us, we go in different directions with an agitated mind.

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I think it is important to separate the idea that we are making decisions in our day to day life from whether or not we are making these decisions completely of our free will.. For instance., the types of decisions that you make when you move your arm certainly seem to be made by us. We make decisions everyday to do things in our lives. However, th... See more

The Buddha, at least in the stories, didn't find his answers as a strict yogi nor as someone in the world grasping at impermanent things. Being blissed out is one side of the coin, being active in the world doing good thing is another. What good is enlightenment if it leads to harm others?

But there is a "self" in the perceiving of these, you are - as the headless way might put it - an empty space in which everything exists, the birds, the trees, the sky, the thought you think of as "you".......it's all part of a single empty openess. It's a tricky thought to wrap your mind around, but it doesn't negate that moment to moment sensatio... See more

“I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists simply to make money. While this is an important result of a company’s existence, we have to go deeper and find the real reasons for our being. As we investigate this, we inevitably come to the conclusion that a group of people get together and exist as an institution that we call a compan... See more