You don't meditate once and suddenly your life turns around. What it does is it lets you train your brain to be able to become more stable in an action-oriented way.
Goldie HawnRead
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
Interpretation
Avoiding something may lead you to it instead.
This quote emphasizes the idea that in trying to evade certain outcomes or situations, we may unknowingly create pathways that lead directly to those very outcomes. It suggests that our efforts to control our destiny can sometimes backfire, illustrating the irony of fate and the intricate ways in which our choices influence our lives.
In practice
During a motivational speech about facing fears and uncertainties.
You don't meditate once and suddenly your life turns around. What it does is it lets you train your brain to be able to become more stable in an action-oriented way.
It's wonderful to move forward technologically, but we cannot forget that we are human beings who thrive on relationships, who thrive on interconnectivity, who thrive on sharing your feelings and emotions.
I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly what makes people happy. I'd want to look into the biology, the chemistry of the human brain.
Never apologize for your success because you worked hard for it.
We are born with the seed of joy; it is up to us to nurture it.
It's wonderful to know you're aging, because that means you're still on the planet, right?
Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach.
Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.
The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the term nonduality. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another.
About 80 percent of the stuff I live with is old. I like letting things take on the character they’re meant to have by really being used. … when you own things that have the imperfections they deserve, that they’ve earned from a well-lived life, it frees you from feeling as though they’re untouchable.
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