You need to rebel to see the other options and to get a much richer, fuller sense of the world. And it's only once you've worked through that and seen through that that you can come back and accept who you are. You have to try all the other options.
Interpretation
Rebelling against norms allows for personal growth and self-acceptance.
This quote by Pico Iyer emphasizes the importance of exploring various possibilities and perspectives in life. By 'rebelling', or stepping out of conventional boundaries, one can gain a broader understanding of the world, which ultimately leads to self-acceptance and a richer personal experience. It suggests that true knowledge of oneself comes from the exploration of different paths and options, making it essential to challenge the status quo.
In practice
Use this quote during a motivational talk about personal development.
Quitting, for me, means not giving up, but moving on; changing direction not because something doesn’t agree with you, but because you don’t agree with something. It’s not a complaint, in other words, but a positive choice, and not a stop in one’s journey, but a step in a better direction. Quitting-whether a job or a habit-means taking a turn so as to be sure you’re still moving in the direction of your dreams.
I think one reason, obviously, that I spend so much time in one place is that I've been lucky enough to travel a lot, and now there are other different, invisible trains that are more interesting to me.
I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.
I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to print out an article I've written, or missing out on the N.B.A. Finals. But at some point, I decided that, for me at least, happiness arose out of all I didn't want or need, not all I did.
The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
What do you say we lighten things up and talk about abortion?
The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.
No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light.
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