just be your self & do your own thing
discover & express your unique self
forge your own path
make your own rules
Stuart Evans and
just be your self & do your own thing
I don’t know how many hundreds of ways there are to say this — I guess as many as it takes until it lands: looking for answers outside of yourself is useless if they don’t lead you to the answers inside you.
Trying to follow someone else’s answers can be dangerous, in about the same way eating wood shavings is dangerous: you’ll feel full while you w... See more
Trying to follow someone else’s answers can be dangerous, in about the same way eating wood shavings is dangerous: you’ll feel full while you w... See more
River Kenna • Deluxe Tension™
The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are. So make up your own rules.
jamesclear.com • “Make Good Art” by Neil Gaiman
According to Mark, nobody can tell you how you should meditate, fully. The way your mind is fucked up will be radically specific. You will thus have to throw out the rules and make your own at some point. Following instructions too rigidly will lead to useless mental play-acting.
Sasha Chapin • Review: Meditation from Cold Start to Complete Mastery
found while creating the Make Your Own Rules collection
We need to know ourselves more fully because the resulting awareness helps to make sense of why the gap between the way we are living and the world we would like to create endures.
The RSA • The Spiritual and the Political: Beyond Russell Brand
Rumi (Coleman Barks): “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
River Kenna • Deluxe Tension™
"just do your thing" is a non-self-consciousness-inducing way to express the wisdom that "just be yourself" tries and fails at, and the reason is obvious if you look at the words.
