Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.
Interpretation
Identify your passions and skills to shape your life purpose.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-awareness in defining one's life direction. Instead of confining oneself to a job title, it encourages individuals to recognize their unique talents and contributions to the world, which can lead to a more fulfilling and authentic life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about career development.
One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.
Let Jesus preach to you, and and let Jesus heal you. We are all wounded. Everyone.
Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none compels you to suffer. Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life.
We're only human, we're supposed to make mistakes.
I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.
When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.
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