You control your thoughts. Your thoughts run your feelings. Therefore you control your feelings. Holding a positive frame of mind in the face of disaster is what the author Dan Millman calls "being unreasonably happy". Within every disaster, tragedy, upset, set-back, adversity, sorrow, defeat, loss, pain, injury etc., whether or not you caused it, lie the seeds of an equal and opposite benefit, joy, success etc., that you can nurture into a good that soars above the disaster that gave rise to them.
Remember that all previous failures are over and done with, past and gone forever. Yesterday is as dead as the Crimean War.
Showing posts with label Dan Millman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dan Millman. Show all posts
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Saturday, October 16, 2010
264. The Wonder of the Ordinary
Dan Millman once said "There are no ordinary moments." Always value the wonder of the ordinary - to see the world in a grain of sand. Work on letting go. Hack away the inessential to reveal the Truth. Proper cultivation runs to simplicity while half-way cultivation runs to ornamentation. Study the arts of Ikebana - Japanese flower arranging and Bonsai to help with this practice.
Do not strain yourself (distort yourself) by twisting to conform to someone else's pre-conceived pattern.
Do not strain yourself (distort yourself) by twisting to conform to someone else's pre-conceived pattern.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
