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
Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.
Interpretation
Youthfulness comes from maintaining a sense of wonder in life, regardless of age.
Goldie Hawn's quote emphasizes that true youthfulness is less about age and more about one's perspective towards life. When individuals approach the world with curiosity and a fresh outlook, they embody the spirit of youth, suggesting that our mindset can shape how we experience life, regardless of how many years we have lived.
In practice
During a motivational speech about embracing life, one might quote this to encourage a positive outlook.
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?
I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.
The only security lies in individual, personal honesty, The law cannot make people honest.
Meditation means a state of unconditioned mind. Meditation is the process of undoing the harm that every society goes on doing to every individual - communist or Catholic, Jaina or Jew, it does not matter. I am not talking about any particular conditioning that is wrong; I am saying conditioning AS SUCH is wrong.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.
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