1. Have a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing
“Simply have a mind that is open to everything but attached to nothing. Let it all come and go as it will. Enjoy it all, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to anything, any place, and particularly, any person. In all of your relationships, if you can love someone enough to allow them to be exactly what they choose to be—without any expectations or attachments from you—you’ll know true peace in your lifetime. True love means you love a person for what they are, not for what you think they should be. This is an open mind—and an absence of attachment.”
― Wayne W. Dyer, 21 Days to Master Success and Inner Peace
2. Don’t die with your music still inside you
Means that you don’t allow yourself to live any life other than the one you were born to live.
You weren't born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success... Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born.
- Myles Munroe
3. You can’t give away what you don’t have
You can’t teach what you don’t know. You cannot give what you don’t have. You cannot forgive what you cannot forget. You can’t learn if you don’t ask questions. You can’t get something without taking the risk to lose it. You can’t pour from an empty cup. You can’t keep what you don’t give. You can’t sustain what you don’t receive. Don’t give someone more attention than you need to give yourself. It should always be you first.
4. Embrace silence
When was the last time you spent 10 minutes in total silence? No noise, no distractions, no background ambiance: just total, complete silence? This was a question I asked some high school students several years ago (before smart phones were even the norm). Most of them said that they had never done so in their entire lives.
Embracing silence forces us to be present to ourselves. Cutting out external noise – audible and otherwise – means that we are left with our internal noise: the thoughts, worries, hopes, fears, dreams, and half-considered ideas that float around under the surface every day.
Embracing silence allows us to be present to the real world around us. So much of our modern noise is virtual that we often miss out on reality. How often have we walked past someone without noticing because we were staring at our phones?
5. Give up your personal history
Have you ever come across a strong person with easy past? Your past is over! When you’re at peace, you radiate a different kind of energy than when you’re stressed or depressed. Your mediation practice keeps building immunity. The more you achieve peacefulness through meditation, the more your peaceful state impacts those around you.
6. You can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."Albert Einstein
Funny thing about creativity and innovation, it doesn’t usually happen unless you change the way you’ve been working.
Sometimes that means stopping and not working on the problem. Sometimes it means throwing out assumptions. Sometimes it means redefining the problem.
And sometimes it means you need to change the people working on the problem. AND CHANGED PEOPLE FORGET TO FOCUS ON THE PROBLEMS. THEY LET GO OF “THE SAME THINKING WE USED TO CREATE” THE PROBLEMS, AND INSTEAD, THEY INNOVATE.
7. There are no justified resentment
There are no justified resentments. Practice forgiveness. It’s best to forgive. Unforgiveness is toxic to your soul. It affects every part of your life, and it manifests into sickness. Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others – it only changes yours.
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Letting toxic people go out of your life is not cruelty. It’s an act of self-care. Don’t hate the addict, hate the disease. Don’t hate the person, hate the behaviour. If it is hard to watch it, imagine how hard it must be to live it. Sathya Sai Baba said: Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never.
Get rid of bitterness, rage, anger and every form of malice. Be kind, compassionate and forgiving.
8. Treat yourself as if you already are what you would like to be
The more you see yourself as what you’d like to become, the more inspired you are . . . you discover that you’re a greater person than you ever dreamed yourself to be . . . dormant forces that were dead or nonexistent, springing into being and collaborating with you as a result of your becoming inspired and acting as if what you want is already here!
9. Treasure your divinity
Learn to treasure yourself and your Divinity. Be willing to accept yourself completely. Be yourself, be graceful, be kind, be wild, be weird … be true to yourself.
“You surrender to a lot of things which are not worthy of you. I wish you would surrender to your radiance … your integrity … your beautiful human grace.” – Yogi Bhajan
10. Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you
Every single thought you have can be assessed in terms of whether it strengthens or weakens you, in fact, there's a simple muscle test you can do to try out any thought that you're having in the present moment. It works like this: Hold your arm out to your side, and have someone else attempt to push your arm down while you resist.
Authentic wisdom is the ability to monitor yourself at all times to determine your relative state of weakness or strength, and to shift out of those thoughts that weaken you. In this way, you keep yourself in an upbeat, higher state of consciousness, and you prevent your thoughts from weakening every single organ of your body. When you use your mind to empower you, you're appealing to that which uplifts and raises your spirits.
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#10 is my favorite - wisdom is the avoidance of weakening thoughts wow! why didn’t I think of that :)