“Break the habit of uncontrolled thinking ie turning off the monkey mind and turn it on only if/ when I want it” @naval @farnamstreet /2
“Happiness is really the default state when you remove the sense that something is missing in your life. So, happiness is about absence of desire for external things and embracing the present moment and the reality of what it is” wow @naval @farnamstreet /4
“I’ve also come to believe in the complete and utter insignificance of the self, one can be very happy as long as one isn’t too caught up in their own heads” @naval @farnamstreet /5
“Honesty just means I want to be free. Part of being free means that I can say what I think and think what I say. They’re highly congruent and integrated.” @naval @farnamstreet /6
“The moment you tell somebody else a lie, you’ve lied to yourself. Then you’ll start believing your own lie. Then that will disconnect you from reality and take you down the wrong road” Richard Feynman (I catch myself on this every now and then :() @naval @farnamstreet /7
“Changed the definition of freedom...From ‘freedom to’ do anything I want, do whatever I feel like, whenever I feel like, To ‘freedom from’ reaction, angry, being sad, forced to do things (internal freedom)” what’s your definition? @naval @farnamstreet /9
“All of humanity’s problem stems from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone” Blaise Pascal (have you tried this?) @naval @farnamstreet /10
“advantage of meditation is not that you’re suddenly going to gain superpower, it’s that you will recognise how out of control your mind is...with practice you will feel a certain distaste towards it & you start separating from it. In that separation is liberation” @naval /11
I can attest to the completely uncontrollable mind of mine...what I’m practising is to recognise that ‘moment’ when it escapes and goes out of control but I fail again and again :-( any tips? Sorry, just a distracted insertion @naval @farnamstreet /12
. @naval hack for jealousy “the day I realised that all these folks I was jealous of, I couldn’t cherry-pick & choose little aspects of their good part, because their other parts are bad for me & that lead to realisation that there is no point in being jealous” @farnamstreet /13
Paraphrasing...You have a choice and can chose to play the external multi-player game for social acceptance (money, status, look good) but don’t confuse that with happiness or peace which is a single-player game @naval @farnamstreet /14
“The reality is life is a single-player game. You’re born alone. You’re doing to die alone. All of your interpretations are alone. All your memories are alone. You’re gone in 3 generations and nobody cares. Before you showed up, nodbody cared.” @naval @farnamstreet /15
