🤔 Morning thoughts (October 28 - November 3)
Every Sunday I share a quote and a reflection on it for each day of the week.
Themes of the week: Self-mastery, resilience, introspection, flow, self-perception, control, acceptance
Sunday - November 3, 2024
"The universe is highly intelligent and speaks to you in events. You cannot change or avoid unpleasant and unhappy—and often unforeseen—situations in life, you can only change your thinking to gain control of how to move through them. Your personal problems show you exactly what you need to work on."
Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living
Don’t miss the signs of what you need to improve. They’ll often come in moments where improving is the least you want or can think of doing, but that’s when the door’s open for you to tweak things. Be willing to look at chaos with detachment.
Saturday - November 2, 2024
"life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself."
Neville Goddard
The way you treat and talk to yourself dictates what you get from life because life is a mirror. It’s easy when everything’s going great, but what about when the going gets tough? That’s when you need to be the most vigilant of your self conduct.
Friday - November 1, 2024
"The mind’s greatest error is that it strives to control the flow itself rather than its own movement within the flow."
Vadim Zeland, Reality Transerfing. Steps I-V
To experience a frictionless life you have to become one with it so you can freely move forward. Living friction-free doesn’t mean insulting from challenges but embracing them, learning how to navigate them.
Thursday - October 31, 2024
“There is no more reliable proof of greatness than to be in a state where nothing can happen to make you disturbed.”
Seneca, On Anger
The true sign of confidence is not outer dominance but inner peace. The more aligned you are with the flow and calm of the universe the more your world will mirror your assuredness.
Wednesday - October 30, 2024
“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him.”
Mahatma Gandhi, Essential Writings
It all starts from the work you do within. Act on what you do have control over and your reality will be shaped accordingly. The hardest part is resisting the temptation to do the opposite and remembering that it’s an indirect process.
Tuesday - October 29, 2024
“The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth... their delight is in self-mastery… They regard a difficult task as a privilege; it is to them a recreation to play with burdens that would crush all others.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Antichrist
Set the bar higher to make friction part of you everyday life. People think the better you get the easier it gets. It’s the opposite. You just learn to master how you react when things don’t go your way.
Monday - October 28, 2024
"One way or another, individual consciousness shapes a person’s destiny."
Vadim Zeland, Reality Transerfing. Steps I-V
What you choose to place in your mind and how you condition new influences is what creates your own reality. Whether it limits you or empower you, that’s up to you.