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Rumi Quote on Living in the Heart and How The Words That Follow “I Am” Follow You.

    “As you live deeper in the heart, the mirror gets clearer and clearer.”

    Rumi

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    Once it happened where a presenter was having technical difficulties with his presentation. The projector wasn’t connecting to the computer properly and the slideshow that he prepared wouldn’t show. As the time was ticking off the clock for his allotted slot, he decided to spontaneously fill the time with an exercise. He asked everybody to turn to the person next to them and ask them to finish the following statement: “I am…”

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    Eckhart Tolle Quote on Understanding Who You Are and How You Might Best Influence Others

      “Who you are is always a more vital teaching and a more powerful transformer of the world than what you say, and more essential even than what you do.”

      Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (Page 202)

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      But, isn’t what we say and what we do, who we are? Sure, our words and actions are key indicators of our identity, but what Tolle points out as being even more important is the intention behind the words and actions. It’s in how we say what we say and in how we do what we do that makes all of the difference. This is a crucial understanding because therefore, it’s the how that points us to understanding who we are.

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      Quote On Inner Beauty and Questioning How People Would Treat You If They Were All Blind

        “If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?”

        Unknown

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        As it stands, the world is predominantly vision based. Meaning, most of what we interpret from our worlds—our environments—is absorbed from what we see. Less of what we learn is from hearing and less from that is tasting, smelling, and feeling. And because most of us rely on vision, vision becomes the predominant method for hierarchically organizing our world. In other words, we organize our world into “desirable” and “less desirable” based on what we see more than any other sense, because sight is our primary source of information gathering.

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          “To be honest, speak without identity.”

          Naval Ravikant, Medium

          Jiawei Han Quote on Expectations and How To Separate The Person From The Idea Of The Person

            “You just like the idea of me. You like the person I present myself under circumstances that I can control. I choose what I say and how I say things. It’s like being attracted to a fictional character in a book. They are scripted and made up. If you think about it, through writings, we all script and make ourselves up. I don’t share the person I become when I am upset. I don’t show you how I look like when I sleep. I don’t tell you about all the times I’ve made someone cry. All the guilty things I’ve done and the bad thoughts I’ve had.”

            Jiawei Han

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            And so is all too often the case in today’s world. Who are we really falling in love with? Who are we idolizing and emulating? Who are we really putting on a pedestal? Is it really the person or is it really just the idea of the person? More often than not, after careful introspection, you’ll find that many people in our lives are really just a product of ideas that represent idealistic and unrealistic images of the people we wished for them to be. We don’t see them for who they are, we see them as a projection from our mind—and perception is reality.

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            Chadwick Boseman Quote on Struggles and How they Shape You For Your Purpose

              “The struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.”

              Chadwick Boseman

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              Chadwick Boseman, the iconic “Black Panther” star, has died at age 43 after a 4-year battle with colon cancer. He was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in 2016, battled it until it progressed to stage IV, and up until it ended up taking his life here in 2020. And like so many others, I knew nothing about his cancer or that he was even sick at all.

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                “There was so much in my life I cared about—and of course I really loved being a therapist. But on another level there wasn’t anything in it I wanted just for me. It was as if my life had turned into a motel room and the truth was I could walk out of it without any sense that I was leaving anything of my own behind. A stranger could easily move into my life, and nothing would be different. I was happy as long as I didn’t think about who I was and what I really wanted for myself.”

                Mira Kirshenbaum, The Gift of a Year (Page 44)

                On Being “Cool” and On Being a “Dork” and Why We Get These Ideas Backwards As A Society

                  On Being "Cool" and On Being a "Dork" and Why We Get These Ideas Backwards As A Society

                  For anyone that wants to go above and beyond, this article might hit better if you do the following before reading:

                  1. Make a list of the Top 3 reasons why you might consider yourself to be, “Cool”
                  2. Make a list of the Top 3 reasons why you might consider yourself to be a, “Dork”

                  That is all. Once you finish with those two lists, continue below. Or, if you’re in a hurry and choose not to make the lists, feel free to continue below anyway.

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                  John Joseph Powell Quote on Self-Worth and How Interactions Are A Mirror For What’s Within

                    “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”

                    John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

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                    Mirrors allow us to see our external self. Human interaction allows us to see our internal self. Without mirrors, we wouldn’t be able to truly know how we looked. We can get a sense of how we look and we might be able to guess, but it is only through the reflection of a mirror that we can ever be sure. Without human interaction, how might we ever truly grasp the content of our character?

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                    Witt Lowry Quote from Debt on How Things That Are Man-Made Don’t Make The Man

                      “I should have known that somethin’ man-made couldn’t make me /

                      I say I’m makin’ music, or is music what creates me?”

                      Witt Lowry, Debt, Nevers Road

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                      Nothing man-made makes the man. It’s what the man makes that makes the man. What somebody else made is a reflection of them. You obtaining what they made doesn’t make you into any kind of different person at all. It might reveal the type of person you are but it doesn’t change who you are. To understand this is to understand the power in making and creating. To forget this is to forget and never realize who you are to yourself or the world.

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                      Michael Gerber Quote on How The Work We Do is a Reflection of Who We Are

                        “The work we do is a reflection of who we are. If we’re sloppy at it, it’s because we’re sloppy inside. If we’re late at it, it’s because we’re late inside. If we’re bored by it, it’s because we’re bored inside, with ourselves, not with the work. The most menial work can be a piece of art when done by an artist. So the job here is not outside of ourselves, but inside of ourselves. How we do our work becomes a mirror of how we are inside.”

                        Michael Gerber, The E-Myth Revisited (Page 200)

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                        “Autograph your work with excellence,” has become a sort of mantra that I live by. Whatever I set out to do, I always try to give it my absolute best shot. And it doesn’t matter what it is. It could be something important like writing these articles or something that might be considered more menial like vacuuming the rug. The underlying idea is that all work that gets done always gets done with an autograph attached to the work. And that autograph, that work, as Gerber points out above, acts as a reflection of the person who did it. The question that you then have to ask yourself is, what does your work say about you?

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                        Michael Gerber Quote on Being Gentle With Your Spirit and How To Unite Your Spirit and Mind

                          “You need to be very gentle with your spirit. It needs to be free, but it also needs you to direct its attention. Too much of one, and not enough of the other, and your spirit will take off like a wild horse. That’s how you need to think of your spirit, like a wild horse. Part of it is there to serve you, and another part to serve itself. The thing you need to learn is which part is which. If you put it behind a fence, you will kill it. But if you leave it to come and go as it pleases, you will never understand it.”

                          Michael Gerber, The E-Myth Revisited (Page 158)

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                          …And it’s not until you understand your spirit that can ever tame and unite forces with it. This is critical to understand because your spirit is one of the most powerful driving forces in your life. It’s only when your actions are backed by the power of your spirit that you can only ever realize your true potential and capability as a human being.

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                            “The first thing to remember is this: As long as you make an identity for yourself out of the pain, you cannot become free of it. As long as part of your sense of self is invested in your emotional pain, you will unconsciously resist or sabotage every attempt that you make to heal that pain. Why? Quite simply because you want to keep yourself intact, and the pain has become an essential part of you. This is an unconscious process, and the only way to overcome it is to make it conscious.”

                            Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (Page 168)

                            Jocko Willink Quote on How Your Greatest Strength Can Also Be Your Greatest Weakness

                              “As with many of the dichotomies of leadership, a person’s biggest strength can be his greatest weakness when he doesn’t know how to balance it.  A leader’s best quality might be her aggressiveness, but if she goes too far she becomes reckless.  A leader’s best quality might be his confidence, but when he becomes overconfident he doesn’t listen to others.”

                              Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership (Page 281)

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                              One of my greatest strengths, I believe, is my ability to empathetically connect to and listen to others. When somebody talks to me about how upset they are that their dog died, I feel the upset. When people call me to express their frustrations towards other people, I feel their frustrations. When the people around me get angry, I can feel their anger in me. Basically, I feel like I have an uncanny ability to put myself in other people’s shoes and feel what they’re feeling even if I’ve never been in their exact situation myself. This is something that I have noticed after many years of introspection and while it can certainly be a strength, it also comes with its fair share of drawbacks and challenges that can turn it into a weakness if left unchecked.

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                              Napoleon Hill Quote on Being The Master Of Your Destiny and Controlling Influences

                                “You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”

                                Napoleon Hill

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                                Influence is the effect one person has on another person’s thoughts and actions. Influence happens every second of every day of your life. Most notably, when you are in direct communication with another person. What another person says and what they do influences you. Either you like what you hear and see and so adjust accordingly, or you dislike what you hear and see and so adjust accordingly the other way. There is no neutral when it comes to interactions because neutral would either mean that you were looking at an exact replica of yourself or that you didn’t notice the other which implies no interaction. We are all so different and unique that we can’t help but influence each other in one way or another.

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                                Jordan Peterson Quote on Self-Discovery and Why You Should Come Out From Hiding To Find Yourself

                                  “If you will not reveal yourself to others, you cannot reveal yourself to yourself.  That does not only mean that you suppress who you are, although it also means that.  It means that so much of what you could be will never be forced by necessity to come forward.  This is a biological truth, as well as a conceptual truth.  When you explore boldly, when you voluntarily confront the unknown, you gather information and build your renewed self out of that information.”

                                  Jordan Peterson, via 12 Rules for Life (Page 212)

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                                  Staying in hiding doesn’t only keep you hidden from the world—it keeps you hidden from yourself. For, as long as you stay hidden from the world, the lessons of the world will remain hidden from you. I can assure you, the lessons of the world will not come knocking at your door or come waltzing into your designated place of hiding. These lessons are only to be found OUT in the world and they must be pursued and captured.

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