How I aim to define myself
How I aim to define myself
"Don't take yourself so seriously. You're just a monkey with a plan."
– Naval Ravikant
"Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share."
– Ginni Rometty
"When you are finished changing, you are finished."
– Benjamin Franklin
I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
– Franz Kafka
Here is another way of finding inner space: Become conscious of being conscious. Say or think “I Am” and add nothing to it. Be aware of the stillness that follows the I Am. Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness.
Eckhart Tolle • A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. ‘My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle’ Chris Evans
This one question—“What do I know for certain?”—is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it’s meant to. You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, belief
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“You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a drop”
– Rumi
“Don’t be the best. Be the only.”
– Kevin Kelly
The signs of one who is making progress are that he criticizes no one, praises no one, blames or accuses no one, and never speaks of himself as being anyone of importance, or as one who has any knowledge. And if he is praised, he laughs within at the person who is praising him, and if anyone finds fault with him, he makes no defence. He goes about
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