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34 Truths on my 34th Birthday

A little accounting of what I’ve managed to learn in the 34 beautiful years I’ve spent on earth.  

The foundation of all happiness is a calm mind, capable of concentration.  

One must fiercely analyze almost every thought and influence that enters one’s mind, as your mind is the garden of your reality from which everything grows.  Whatever beliefs I hold will eventually become my reality.

Success without family and friends is like drinking great wine with a stuffed nose.  

The answers to my questions are often found in silence, not in research.  

The psychological benefits of exercise outstrip the physical.  

Unhappiness lies in the gap between how my life actually is and how I think it’s supposed to be.  

Resist the urge to change people.  Lead by example, not word.  I’ve learned this the hard way.  

Lean into your discomfort; it is the doorway to all growth.  

To resist the present moment is to resist what is.  To resist what is is insanity.

Through acceptance there is great freedom.  

Happiness is not something I will find, but something that is earned.  Once attained, it must be vigilantly defended. 

I have never looked back upon a moment when my temper got the best of me with anything but regret.  

It is imperative to identify negative, harmful emotions at their inception, before they are able to take root and cause damage.

My mind will mimic my body.  If I smile, my mind will become happier.  If I stand with great posture, I will feel more confident.  

Nothing is as simple as it seems.  Every moment is the result of billions of years of history.  None of us are independent actors.

It is always best to practice compassion, for the opposite hardens your heart and ends up doing the most harm to yourself.  

Moderation, moderation, moderation.  

The first step to overcoming your weaknesses is an open acknowledgement of them.  

Be kind to everyone, especially yourself.  My relationship with myself is the most important relationship I have.

Beware of the influence of the ego.  Its appetite is insatiable and will never be satisfied.  All pursuits of happiness built upon the satisfaction of the ego will inevitably lead to disappointment and will drive me far away from my true self.  

Perspective is everything in life.  Try to maintain a good perspective of your place within your family, friendships, workplace, country, world, universe and history.  

I must play everyday.  Dance, laugh, create.

If I can be at peace with my eventual death, there is little that will disturb me.

Practice gratitude with religious fervor.  

If I can get through the “God, I’m horrible at this” phase of any new creative endeavor, I can do anything.  

To quote the imp from Game of Thrones, “The mind needs books like a sword needs a stone.”

Love is a verb.  The wider I can open my heart, the closer to God I will become.  

Everything you see will be gone eventually.  This world is change, this life is opinion.

It is important to spend time in daily contemplation.  An honest accounting of my life is critical.  Know yourself.

The Four Agreements: Be impeccable with your word, don’t take things personally, don’t make assumptions and always do your best.  

True wisdom lies just as much in knowing what to omit as what to include.  

You can make friends much more easily by being interested in people than by trying to make people interested in you.

Some days I am just sad.  This doesn’t mean something is wrong with me or that I need to be fixed.  Just acknowledge it and carry on. 

While I may be entering my 35th year on Earth, I have only ever existed in the present moment.  Any true wisdom deals with ones ability to properly orient oneself to the infinite.  

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40 charts that explain money in politics

Money suffuses our political system. Here’s what’s going on, in charts.

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Rappers Ranked by Vocabulary, updated and illustrated.

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You know the world is in trouble when this is a real correction in the New York Times.  Thanks, I feel much better now.  

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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

The entirety of this is brilliant and highly recommended. 

Let me principally warn you against your own ardour. Ardour in well-doing is a misleading and a treacherous thing. It cries out loudly for employment; you can’t satisfy it at first; it wants more and more; it is eager to move mountains and divert the course of rivers. It isn’t content till it perspires. And then, too often, when it feels the perspiration on its brow, it wearies all of a sudden and dies, without even putting itself to the trouble of saying, “I’ve had enough of this.”

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Internal mechanism of a watch made by Patek Philippe.  

Whoa.  

Via redditon

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7 QUESTIONS YOU SHOULD ASK AT THE END OF EVERY JOB INTERVIEW.

Click here to find out why these questions help you.

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This is so important! I never know what to ask and end up looking like a fool cause I don’t have a question prepared. Don’t be me.

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14 Fantastic Stories From The New Yorker Archive You Should Read This Summer

I've read the first two, now I can't wait to read the last twelve.  

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It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.

Prophet Muhammad (via culturejolt)

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How to Be Good - The New Yorker

When people describe time’s passage, they often say that we are moving into the future, or that future events are getting closer, or that nowness, or the quality of being Now, is moving down the series of events like a spotlight moving along a line of chorus girls. But these claims, though they can seem deeply true, make no sense.

Why, Parfit wonders, are we so biased toward the future? Was this tendency produced by natural selection? We are upset when we are told that in the future we shall have to endure a day of great pain, but many people do not care at all if they are told that they endured pain in the past that has been forgotten; and yet the past pain is just as real. We don’t have the same bias with other people: if we learn that a loved person suffered greatly before he died, we are upset by this, even though it’s over. The past is just as real as the present. If someone we loved is dead, that person isn’t real now. But that’s just like the fact that people who are far away aren’t real here.

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I take a song that doesn’t exist and I pretend it into existence by way of forgetting that that’s not really a song yet.. and playing it like it is.

John Mayer (via micahfreeman)

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This is where I used to ball growing up.  Snuck down around dusk to take a quick shot, no pun.  

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"Real play is actually a wildly creative application of deep practice. It means picking something hard and doing it at a level that's almost too difficult. I spent a lot of time pushing clients (and myself) to this edge. At first it isn't fun--remember, even people who feel driven to deep practice don't say they're having fun before they've mastered something. This is why most humans resist learning anything substantially new once they reach about twenty-three. At that point they can basically negotiate the world, so why keep learning?"

Martha Beck

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Hip-Hop Essentials via Reddit

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The kind of love I'd like.  I might have had it once.

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All I want for Christmas are new albums from D'Angelo, Lauryn Hill and Jay Electronica. I'll settle for two out of three. In the meantime, I'll settle for this hour interview D'Angelo did with the Red Bull Music Academy.

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