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.
Menachem Mendel SchneersonRead
This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.
Interpretation
Recognizing the significance of each moment is crucial for effective time management.
This quote emphasizes the importance of valuing each moment in our lives as a vital component of time management. When we acknowledge the potential and worth of every passing second, we become more mindful of how we spend our time, allowing us to make better choices and prioritize what truly matters.
In practice
During a workshop on productivity, this quote can inspire participants to appreciate their time.
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.
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.
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.
Now, when you are aware, you see the whole process of your thinking and action, but it can happen only when there is no condemnation. That is. When I condemn something, I do not understand it.
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.
We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.
Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.
Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.
It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.
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