James Pierce
@RealJamesPierce
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The Standards: . You wake up each morning perfectly at peace. Your life is exactly as you desire it to be. It is what you might call dynamically balanced—there are moving pieces, things you are heading towards and things you are leaving, but you have the feeling that everything
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It’s hard to admit you’ve been an idiot, but it’s a lot harder to keep being one.
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Your mind requires either a lot of attention or no attention. The in between will eat you alive.
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Your mindset would be a lot better if you stopped caring about your mindset.
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Once you make your peace with death, nothing can touch you.
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The real trick is learning how to care about something without caring about it.
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“When someone speaks of no-self, which after all is what enlightenment really is, the natural question one wants to ask is, “yes, but how do you know there is no self?”. Logical as it may seem, this is actually the wrong question.”. From my latest blog post.
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Life is a lot more enjoyable when you stop resisting what you feel.
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Geography is one of the worst reasons to be friends with someone.
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Impatience can be a blessing or a curse, it all depends on how you wield it.
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One of the hardest lessons to internalize is that you can’t *just* do good work, you also have to do a lot of it.
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“Pacing yourself” is a lie made up to keep you from succeeding too quickly.
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You can’t complain about not having the life you want if you haven’t spent any time trying to build it.
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