The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
Summary
Written decades ago, a bestseller that reminds you to focus on what's in front of you and forget about everything else
Rating: 4/5
Notes
You are not your mind
Enlightenment is your mental state of felt oneness w/ being
The mind is a superb instrument if used wisely but if it’s used poorly, it becomes destructive
This is the disease - you believe you are your mind
Listen to the voice in your head. Be there as a witnessing presence
Don’t judge or condemn what you hear, just watch it
Learn to dis-identify with your mind
To the ego the present moment hardly exists. Only the past and future are considered important
Pleasure is always derived from something outside of you whereas joy comes from within
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have
Whatever the present moments contains, accept it as if you had chosen it
Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy
The secret of life is to ‘die before you die’ and find that there is not death
Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be
The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not ‘this moment’
Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind stuff. Your life is real.
Be interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place
Any negative inner state is contagious - unhappiness spreads more easily than physical disease
To complain is always a non-acceptance of what is
Any action is better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it’s a mistake, at least you learned something in which cause it’s no longer a mistake
Stress is caused by being in the present but wanting to be in the future
The only thing real about your journey is the step you are taking at this moment - that’s all there ever is
Your outer purpose will never give you fulfilment
If you do not free yourself from your mind, you will be destroyed by it
Intimate relationships do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness already within you
Light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness
Failure lies concealed in every success and success in every failure
All that arises passes away
Every moment is the best - that is enlightenment
Your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness
The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it
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Make Something Wonderful
Steve Jobs
Summary
The life of Steve Jobs in his own words
Rating: 5/5
Notes
Make something wonderful and put it out there
‘You appear, have a chance to blaze in the sky, then you disappear’
When you’re a stranger in a place, you notice thing you don’t otherwise (Jobs after India trip)
Whenever you start with nothing, always shoot for the moon. You have nothing to lose.
You never achieve what you want without falling on your face a few times
Never be afraid to fail. You never achieve what you want without falling flat on your face a few times
We are never taught to listen to our intuitions, to develop and nurture them. But if you do pay attention to these subtle insights, you can make them come true
Creativity equals connecting previously unrelated experiences and insights others don’t see
Believe that some of what you follow with your heart will come back and make your life richer. And it will. And you will gain even firmer trust on your instincts and intuitions
Make your avocation your vocation. Make what you love your work.
The journey is the reward. The reward isn’t in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, it’s in crossing the rainbow
To find A+ talent, if experienced, look at their track record and results
The world we know is a human creation and we can push it forward
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do (read whole ad ‘here’s to the crazy ones)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit - Aristotle
Hire people better than you are
You can’t plan to meet the people who will change your life
It’s impossible to connect the dots looking forward, but they make sense looking backwards so you have to trust the dots will somehow connect in your future
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you
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