🤔 Morning thoughts (April 21 - 27)
Every Sunday I share a quote and a reflection on it for each day of the week.
Themes of the week: addiction, self-mastery, discipline, intuition, transformation, inner-strength, detachment
Sunday - May 4, 2025
“This is the essence of an addiction: we try to fill an infinite hole with a finite experience."
Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living
The source of what you seek comes from the same energy you have hidden deep insiude yourself. You just need to tap into it.
Saturday - May 3, 2025
"The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.”"
Carlos Castaneda
Strengthen what you can control, your inners self, let go of what you can’t. The result is being undeniable.
Friday - May 2, 2025
the Master takes action by letting things take their course. He remains as calm at the end as at the beginning. He has nothing, thus has nothing to lose. What he desires is non-desire; what he learns is to unlearn. He simply reminds people of who they have always been. He cares about nothing but the Tao. Thus he can care for all things.
Tao Te Ching
Creating space between stimulus and reaction is taking action, too. Just the kind that doesn’t produce immediate results, at least not apparent ones. Learn to see this.
Thursday - May 1, 2025
"mastery is not about being special or more gifted than anyone else. Mastery is a direct result of pigheaded discipline and determination."
Chet Holmes, The Ultimate Sales Machine
The soft skill of discipline in mastering anything is actually the hardest to master. Mastery requires depth and ruthlessness.
Wednesday - April 30, 2025
"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
Trusting your intuition is about acceptance. You have to give up the ego’s need to find meaning in every moment so you can be free to follow your gut.
Tuesday - April 29, 2025
There is very little difference between the capacity for mayhem and destruction, integrated, and strength of character. This is one of the most difficult lessons of life.
Jordan Peterson, 12 rules for life
Strong character is built through adversity and overcoming. The energy you create comes from a different place, a place few dare to go. That’s why few develop that strength and fail to recognize it in others.
Monday - April 28, 2025
"You can no more change your environment, or world, by destroying things than you can your reflection by destroying the mirror."
Neville Goddard, Infinite Potential
When something’s wrong in life the fastest, but also most responsible way to diagnose the issue is to look inside. Unless you master your internal state, you won’t be able to see reality for what it is.