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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Day 84

10:00 AM                                                                       MM

" No one is born with any kind of talent and, therefore,  every skill has to be acquired"

                                                                                        Ayn Rand

We are all the same... All one... The difference is in what seeds inside of us we water every day. Every skill has to be acquired... Our inner self is like a rich soil, full of different seeds, waiting to be watered, waiting to become a skill, a habit, behaviour, an asset or an obstacle. From birth we start to water our seeds, some we water ourselves, some are watered by our parents, some by environment, society, people... Then we are who we are. That part is true...
The part that is not true, is the one that we believe that this is who I am and I can't change, it's just me... Everything changes, so do you. Again, it all starts with the seeds that you water. If you commit to watering the seeds of love, compassion, bravery, eventually the seeds of anger, jealousy, and fear will start fading away, back into the deep parts of your inner self. Become determined to water the seeds of knowledge, success, wealth, than the seeds of ignorance, failure, and struggle will fade...
It really is all up to you... Start watering...

2:00 PM

How hard is it to pay attention... To focus on the moment, to hear, to see, to smell... I think it is possibly the most difficult thing for a human to do. The mind is just too strong, and it is extremely hard to keep it quiet. You have the intention, you try and try, 10 000 times, but before you know it, the mind is talking... Sometimes you will not even notice that your focus is fading, the mind talk is so natural and normal to us, that we actually feel weird when we do pay attention.
However, the beauty is in the trying... Even if it last for a few seconds, that pause in the thinking is priceless. You can feel all the potential in that moment. You can see that there is nothing but happiness, real happiness, inside this world. When in this world, one doesn't complain and suffer, one accepts. In this world one doesn't worry, one just does... Its a simple world, it doesn't lack anything. Its too bad it only last 3 seconds...

11:00 PM

16 days left... Good class today... Even with a few pauses...

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