Surya Prakash Jayanti

Here are some quotes from the great book "The Daily Stoic" - Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman. If you like these quotes, you must pick up the book. Stoicism is a way of life (logics+ethics), our ability to use our reason to choose how we respond and reorient ourselves to external events. It's ultimately framed around The discipline of perception : how we see the world around us The discipline of Action : The decisions and actions we take The discipline of will : How we deal with things we can NOT change. Contrl your perceptions. Direct your actions properly. willingly accept what's outside your control. That's all we need to do. If you want to be steady, if you want clarity, proper judgment is the best way. You've got just one thing to manage: Your choices, your will, your mind. So mind it. Man is pushed by drives but pulled by values. Find what you do out of rote memory or routine. Ask yourself: Is this really the best way to do it? Money only marginally ch...

  Quotes from the book 'When Things Fall Apart' by Pema Chödrön." Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. Am I going to add to the aggression in the world ? Am I Going to practice peace, or am I going to war? This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we are. Bring our minds back home. Meditation is the willingness to die over and over again. Because of mindfulness, we see our desires and our aggression, our jealousy, and our ignorance. We don't act on them; we just see them. Without mindfulness, we don't see them. Mindfulness is the ground; refraining is the path. Four pairs of opposites - pleasure and pain, loss and gain, fame and disgrace, and praise and blame - is what keeps us stuck in the pain of samsara. One can be lonely and not be tossed away by it. We can just be lonely with no alternatives, content to be right here with the mood and texture of what's happening. If you want to find the meani...