This Week 7’s (12.14 – 12.31) Affirmation: Mindfulness – I will reach for mindfulness each day.
Date – 12.26.17
B-Book 44: Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
The key message in this book: Often we stop dead in our tracks …
When I first read Confucius, I was disappointed. He seemed like
a stick-in-the-mud, obsessed with enforcing the status quo. ‘As for music,’ he grumped to his disciples, ‘listen only to Shao and Wu. Prohibit the tunes of Zheng.’
This was the great sage of ancient China, who wandered the country lecturing disciples and rulers on how to live? Maybe his approach worked 2,500 years ago. But for me, in the 21st century? I preferred living freely like the iconoclastic Daoist sages who mocked Confucius.
Source: How to set yourself free with ritual | Psyche Guides
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Really like this list – lifted from Quora by Kelly Duncan:
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I just love this list that I lifted from Quora – written by Jasmin Mous,
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This is an excellent piece from Quora, written by a gent by the name of Brett Elkins:
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