Humanizing Life
Solving Inner Causes
Solving the inner cause of your life hindrances and helping others to do so grows you.
Living a Day
Living a day teaches you invaluable lessons.
Life Improvement and Stagnation
Your life will improve if you learn from it, otherwise lessons are repeated.
Learning From Life
Learn from life or repeat its lessons.
Be a Butterfly
Be a butterfly if you are not happy being a caterpillar.
Your Power and Privilege
Acting with genuine motivation and intention to benefit others is your power and privilege that transforms yourself and the world.
Inner Growth
Inner growth is essentially the process of realizing and solving our own contradictions, such as why we often create our own suffering despite not wanting it.
Don’t Live To Be Happy
Don’t live to be happy. Be happy to live.
Unhappy to be With Yourself
If you are not happy to be with yourself, it is difficult to be happy with others.
Getting Out of Unhappiness
No one can get you out of your unhappiness unless you stop doing what will bring you unhappiness.
A Role of Unhappiness
Unhappiness brings ingredients for happiness. If you are unhappy, you probably already have what it takes to be happy.
Rediscovering Your Life
A life living as a human instead of living as a resource.
Loneliness
Not being alone but having a poor relationship with oneself leads to loneliness.
Life Lessons
Your life has lessons for you each day.
Life Lessons 2
If you learn from your life, you grow and your life improves. Otherwise you repeat the same lessons and become a lesson for others.
Learn or Be a Lesson
Learn from life or become a lesson.
Truly Helping Others
Solving the inner cause of your life hindrances and helping others to do so is truly helping others.
On Fire
We extinguish the fire when a house is on fire but just silence the alarm when life is on fire.
On Fire 2
Extinguish the fire, not just silence the alarm when your life is on fire.
A New Way to Deal with Your Life Problems
Solving your inner causes of your life problems instead of removing only the symptoms.
Your Core
Your inner self is your core.
Living Without Awareness of Being Alive 4
If you live without the awareness that you are alive, even with all the wealth and power in the world, you can not live as the owner of your life but live as a servant.
If You Are Needed
If you are needed in your family, you are appreciated and protected in your family. If you are needed in the society, you are appreciated and protected in the society. If you are needed in the world, you are appreciated and protected in the world.
What Improve Your Life
Making good use of what you are given in life. Solving inner causes you have that hinder your life. Living as a human rather than a resource. Knowing what will improve and what will hinder your life. Helping what help you.
The Key to Improving Your Life
Your speech comes from your mind. Your actions come from your mind. Your life is determined in your mind. Your future is decided in your mind. The key to improving your life is in your mind.
Your Power and Privilege
Acting with genuine motivation and intention to benefit others is your power and privilege that transforms yourself and the world.
Above Pleasure Below Pleasure
Two persons eating the same food have different motivations for eating. One eats for the benefit of all but the other eats for one’s pleasure. Pleasure follows the former but the latter follows pleasure. The former is above the pleasure while the latter is below the pleasure.
Above Pleasure Below Pleasure 2
If you do not follow pleasure but pleasure follows you, you are above the pleasure. If you follow pleasure, you are below the pleasure.
Above Pleasure Below Pleasure 3
If you act for a purpose greater than pleasure but pleasure follows, you are above the pleasure, and if you act for pleasure, you are below the pleasure.
Above Pleasure Below Pleasure 4
Eating for the benefit of all is eating above pleasure. Eating for one’s pleasure is eating below pleasure.
Power Relations
If you need someone, the person is in a more powerful position than you. If the person needs you, you are in a more powerful position than the person.
Power Relations 2
Wanting something from someone such as money or recognition is putting yourself in a less powerful position than the person.
Blaming Others
Blaming others is like blaming the weather for an inaccurate forecast.
What You Truly Want
You miss what you truly want while chasing what you think you want.
Desire Without Wisdom
Desire without wisdom darkens future.
The Cause within You
A problem can not happen to you if you do not have a cause of it within you. Similarly, a life problem also can not happen to you if you do not have a cause of it within you.
Silencing a Fire Alarm
Eliminating only the symptoms of life problems while ignoring the cause is like silencing the fire alarm and letting the fire continue to burn.
Who Run Your Life
Others are running your life when you are not.
The Creator
You are the creator of your life, happiness and misery.
A Master and a Servant of Life
One who learns from life becomes a master of life. One who does not becomes its servant.
The Biggest Obstacle
The biggest obstacle is the one that you create for yourself.
Living as a Senior
Live as a senior, not as an old person.
Better or Bitter
Improving yourself leads to a better future. Blaming others leads to a bitter future.
Your True Teacher
Your life is your true teacher.
The Best and Even Better
What you have now is the best you can have at the moment. Be grateful for it and use it well. You will have even better things in the future.
source: New Direction Archive