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You’re much more likely to grow a tree by planting seeds than you are just waiting for the seeds to plant themselves.
The same is true for growing people.
You’re much more likely to inspire growth in people by planting mind seeds than you are waiting for the seeds to plant themselves.
The ones who get ahead in the digital age are the ones who know how to discipline themselves with their screens.
These are the people who:
Isn’t it interesting how in the age of information, so many around us still seem to be so lost?
Like how so much of what people are focused on is backwards from what they actually should be focused on?
It all boils down to a priorities imbalance.
What we have to recognize is:
The urge is to do what’s urgent.
The key to getting ahead is to discipline yourself against that urge and do what’s important instead.
Remind yourself constantly:
And then leave work guilt-free because…
Well, do we need to repeat it again?
Healing doesn’t come from passing on pain.
At first glance, the idea of taking pain, packaging it up, and giving it away sounds sensible.
In the same way that taking garbage that’s overflowing, packaging it up, and sending it out to the curb might relieve your nose of the pain it’s stench thrusts upon you when you near it.
But, pain isn’t garbage that you can just dump off at the curb for another person to carry.
In fact, pain isn’t something that’s removable at all.
Pain is the crack in your house’s foundation. It’s the constant flooding of your basement. It’s the leaky roof, the broken plumbing, or the rotting wood.
It’s structural.
And there’s no moving out of this house. This body, this mind, this spirit—is the only real house you’ll ever have.
The only way this house heals, is if you do what’s required to get it fixed.
The information for healing is out there—for houses and for humans. It has never been more accessible.
It’s the solving—the doing of the work—that’s hard. And if you’re not up to the task of fixing something structural with your house alone—just admit it!
…And then get someone who can help.
Ideally, someone who knows how to fix structural problems and is a professional in their field.
You wouldn’t hire “just anybody” to fix a crack in your house’s foundation, right? So, why would you ever consider doing that for your most sacred home?
Ignoring structural problems and spewing the pain of it all on others—is no solution at all.
And only adds more wear to the houses of those in your own neighborhood.
This post became the introduction for: 28 Poetic Quotes from Inward by Yung Pueblo on Healing, Pain, and Love
When we exhale our desires we can breath in the happiness that was there all along.
Sometimes, meditating might make you feel anxious.
Of course!
…Because you’re choosing to confront an anxious mind that’s full of clouded, mudded, raging thoughts.
Here’s the thing: the means to settling an anxious mind isn’t done by stirring it up with more information, stimulation, and distraction—it’s done by giving it the space it needs in absence of those things.
Sitting with the discomfort is the means.
And what you might realize, is that your raging mind—like a child raging with a temper tantrum—does eventually relent to the space, boredom, and non-stimulation of a good timeout.
The only question is, can you be firm enough to put your mind in timeout or will you continue to let the child of your mind rage?
Stop making it worse.