Share your life's best lessons

Quote from Lucias:

Approaching 32.. I would say

1. Don't sweat the small stuff. 99% of the everyday stuff in life isn't important. Don't be petty.
2. When you have a need to serve then serve and serve well. Life is full of pain. Everyone life will basically end as a tragedy. Service is both grief and the relief of grief.
3. Listen to your feelings, listen to your mind but don't always do what it says. Take a broad view of your mind and where it is leading you. Question it and redirect it if necessary. Take time to operate your mind from a birds eye view. Take time to redirect it and reprogram it when required. Be purposeful and use your consciousness wisely.
4. Take care of yourself. Feed yourself well and exercise. Good health is precious.
5. Be open and accepting of change. Change is difficult but always present. One of my best friends for over a decade turned into a miserable wretched liar. And, it isn't even that important. Recognize that people change.
6. Understand with full certainty the world is full of absurdity and injustice. The sound mind is one that knows that everyone and everything else is crazy. The crazed mind begins when it thinks the world to be sane.
7. Practice compassion and being compassionate. Everyone has the capacity to be mean. Practicing compassion will make that less and less likely.
8. Don't lose your mind to fear or anger. Listen to it but talk to yourself. Be your own best coach.
9. Enjoy rest. Enjoy play. Enjoy the moment. Enjoy what you have: it is enough.

And now a risky one.. this is rather risky and uncertain if this is wisdom because but.. if

10. Dedicate yourself to performance and the pursuit of performance. Dedicate yourself to living a purpose driven life. I feel this is both sound and a bit risky advice.
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I will, also, add 2 more things of value

When someone tells you that you can't do something. Listen to them and take note of their concerns then prove them wrong. Most people are easy to prove wrong. I've made thousands of dollars by proving people wrong. Giving out "good advice" can be very expensive to the recipient. Take advice carefully.

Experience the ego death at least once. This doesn't require any drugs. It only requires a bit of knowledge. It can be done by using an isolation tank or by using techniques originally developed by Shamans. If anyone ask then I can tell you how to do this step-by-step with no drugs or technology required.
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....some deep stuff.
 
Quote from iprph90:

Yes, I am learning this as well. He is in high school now and got a job in the summer.....he is beginning to understand the fiscal side of life.
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If I wanted something; I had to do something. Mow the lawn, cut firewood, something. I used to hate my Dad for that stuff when I was around that age; but being older, I'm very grateful he made me earn what I wanted.
 
Use everything in life with moderation. 3 cigarettes a day won't kill you, neither will 3 coffees. Same with drinking or hamburgers....
 
Quote from hoodooman:


Always go out of your way to help people, whether you know them or not and even if its a life or death situation. Be there.
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I would like to connect this with my earlier comments about not being cynical about humanity:

In the event that you are in a life or death situation; whether it is a plane crash or car accident or just another run of the mill trampling at a European soccer match.....you never really know who will come to your rescue, moreover, will you be willing to save someone's life risking your own?

So the next time you board that airplane and stare down some suspicious character or admire the thousand dollar suit on a gentleman in first class, bear in mind, that at that moment you have very little instinctive information other than your preconceived notions to make an accurate judgment on who will truly help you.
 
Quote from iprph90:



So the next time you board that airplane and stare down some suspicious character or admire the thousand dollar suit on a gentleman in first class, bear in mind, that at that moment you have very little instinctive information other than your preconceived notions to make an accurate judgment on who will truly help you.
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Yeah, but there was this time I offered assistance at a car crash, family had run off the road somehow. Driver had a busted arm, turned out to be a cop; but hoo-ee, didn't he crack the shits when I offered him a hit of whiskey from my hip flask! 60 years ago, it would have been the gentlemanly thing to do.

Always take plenty of time buying footwear; your feet are really darned important to think "these will do" on the spur of the moment.
 
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So the next time you board that airplane and stare down some suspicious character or admire the thousand dollar suit on a gentleman in first class, bear in mind, that at that moment you have very little instinctive information other than your preconceived notions to make an accurate judgment on who will truly help you.
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heres the thing, when some guy with a turbin is staring at me on an airplane, its most likely he has something inside his turban , a sharp object or something he can utilize on other people.


why wouldn't I be suspicious?
 
Quote from cooolweb:

heres the thing, when some guy with a turbin is staring at me on an airplane, its most likely he has something inside his turban , a sharp object or something he can utilize on other people.


why wouldn't I be suspicious?
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Please quote me where I said you don't have to be suspicious. I don't want to belabor this, the point is keep an open mind. Most of the time we are victims of our own prejudices. I personally want to rise above that, as hard as it may be.
 
Before hitting the send button on a company wide e-mail where you have just spelled out how f'n stupid you think the new policy is, you may want to consider putting that e-mail in a draft status, sleep on it and re-evaluate your position on the subject the next day. :eek:
 
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