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James Hollis recommends asking of every significant decision in life: “Does this choice diminish me, or enlarge me?” The question circumvents the urge to make decisions in the service of alleviating anxiety and instead helps you make contact with your deeper intentions for your time.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
We can understand, however, that there is no self-enclosed self who exists in separation from her experience of life. This understanding has been compared, rather smartly I think, with waking up.
Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are
J Jennifer Matthews
There are three traditional methods for relating directly with difficult circumstances as a path of awakening and joy. The first method we’ll call no more struggle; the second, using poison as medicine; and the third, seeing whatever arises as enlightened wisdom. These are three techniques for working with chaos, difficulties, and unwanted events in our daily lives.
Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
Lion’s Roar
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