Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
Menachem Mendel SchneersonRead
And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece of the larger picture of your life.
Interpretation
Recognizing the importance of every action in your life can lead to greater focus and purpose.
This quote emphasizes the belief that every action we take holds significance in the grand scheme of our lives, especially in the eyes of a higher power. By acknowledging that our daily efforts are essential parts of a larger narrative, we can cultivate a deeper sense of concentration and dedication to our goals.
In practice
In a motivational speech to a team, emphasizing the importance of each member's contributions.
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.
But time is yet another of God's creations, and as such, it has a life of its own.
We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.
Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.
If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.
If you hear on the weather report that it's going to rain tomorrow, rather than reminding yourself to bring your umbrella, set the umbrella by the front door - now the environment is reminding you to bring the umbrella.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before you were born, mirrored in its purity. It is a great silence and a great joy to be there, and once you start abiding there, there is no death and no time. All fear, all greed, all anger, disappears: one is just there with no idea, no desire.
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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