![]() ![]() ![]() – Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. – Paradox: Life is a mystery don’t waste your time trying to figure it out. “Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor and Change. Have you ever fueled a project with the energy of channeled anger? It’s like a boost of nitrous oxide for our motivation. It is here we can transform this energy into constructive action. When we are living beyond the mind, we see emotion for exactly what it is: energy. Imagine now that emotions are not good, bad or indifferent. Pause for a moment and examine the labels you subconsciously put upon any given emotion. Thus when emotions arise, the story arises as well. Why? Because at some point we created a story around emotion that simply is not true. We block emotion, we judge emotion, we suppress emotion. ![]() The key is to transform the energy of emotion into constructive action.” Sometimes it’s fear, sometimes sorrow or anger. “Emotions are natural, like passing weather. “You don’t need to control emotion,” he said. The only thing we actually have a say in is the effort we will put forth in any given moment of the present. If we approach each moment at hand and each task in front of us with our utmost ability and effort, then we have done our best. To waste all our present moments planning and fretting over a future which will arrive as it’s meant to is nothing but a giant waste of our time. To further the point above, there is only here and now. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.” To live in the mind is to live in the past or the future. Stay in the action, and we stay in the present. When we are actually taking an action, we aren’t thinking about it-we are doing it. We can spend hours thinking about taking an action in the future or dwelling on an action of the past, in which case neither one has us living in the present. I had to stop and ask, Is it really so simple? And of course, the answer came floating back through the stillness within: Yes. That’s when I saw it. ![]() “The mind is like a phantom.” Does that not ring true with a resounding thud? When we just pause for a second and really hear these words, letting them sink in and digesting their meaning, they’re so simply profound. It’s only power over you is to draw your attention out of the present.” But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. I had been trying to get somewhere else since my earliest conscious memory! The idea that happiness lies “over there” is false. Stop and ask yourself, when was the last time you just existed in the moment? For me, the first time I read this, the answer was never. We spend our whole lives working toward our ambitions, dreams and desires. May these quotes from author Dan Millman be of benefit: “Your business is not to ‘get somewhere’-it is to be here.” I’m no expert in anything but my own life experiences, and so that is exactly what I will share with you below. My intention is to share wisdom that has been of benefit to me. You may want to rail against these ideas and present all the logical reasons why they don’t line up. If you’re set on understanding these concepts with the mind, you may struggle. So, dear seekers, if you are ready to start feeling happiness read on. There is an infinite river of joy waiting for us all just beyond the limitations of the mind. And that is where I discovered happiness. It wasn’t until I stopped knowing and started feeling that I finally understood something. Using it to tear down all paths to happiness. I lived in my intellect for years, using it to build walls of superiority between myself and the world. This isn’t an intellectual article. It took me a long time to get out of my mind and into my senses. It’s a path to freedom and happiness no matter what rises up in front of us.įirst, though, we have to put aside our intellect. This is something much greater and much deeper. There’s no cure-all, one fix stop and shop. Of course we’ll feel sadness and anger again. We all want to be happy, right? At peace? Content no matter what arises? ![]()
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