My brother,
@naval
, once said to me: "you're perfect. Your problem is that you just don't know it."
Took me years to get it. I'm still getting it.
So, I say to you: You're perfect. Your problem is that you just don't know it.
I hope it takes you less time to get it than me :)
To paraphrase Bruce Lee: I bet not on the man who’s read 10,000 books and applied their lessons once, but I bet on the man who read one book and applied its lessons 10,000 times.
Friendly suggestion: if you don’t have the guts to say it to someone in person, don’t say it about them on Twitter.
Being an armchair tough guy online shows your character, not of the one on the receiving end.
Yoga in a nutshell:
1/ Dressing the part is 70% of Yoga.
2/ Sprinkling words like "Universal consciousness" and "spiritual" is 20% of Yoga.
3/ Refusing to eat any food that builds muscle is 9% of Yoga.
4/ The stretchy bendy poses thing is 1% of Yoga.
Namaste
Something I keep re-learning: when I change my inside (my thoughts and feelings *consistently*), my life naturally shifts. Almost as if the outside mirrors the inside.
Never ever envy someone their success. You have no idea the price they paid (or will pay). There always is a price.
Instead, use them to motivate yourself. And be ready to pay the price.
Morning in the Himalayas. Down to the left is a Tibetan village. Last night, it rained. Thunder crackled and rolled through the valley. I fell asleep to the sound and woke to this.
Neo wakes from the Matrix into another Matrix. He figures this out and wakes into...another Matrix. Waking into Matrix after Matrix, like endless babushka dolls, until, in the end, full on awakening where he realizes he is the Matrix itself.
That was the game all along...
Whenever I’m lecturing someone in my head (i.e: anything starting with “you are...”), I should go stand in front of the mirror. It’s me I’m talking about. Always.
We're all stuck in our minds. So, the best thing I've ever done is consistently make my mind a great place to be.
I repeat - the best thing. It's that important.
I’d rather be the most helpful guy in the room than the smartest guy in the room.
(Besides, if I’m the smartest guy in the room, I’m in the wrong room)
I once attended a talk by a Tibetan monk and he said that if you throw a rock at a dog, he'll chase the rock. But if you throw a rock at a lion, the lion will chase you. The lesson, he said, be the lion.
(He was speaking about the mind, btw.)
1/ While back, a friend had a chance to lick a toad that would make him see God. He’s never drank or smoked anything in his life.
The experience he’d been offered was thousands of years old. Practiced by indigenous tribes. Everyone I know who’d done it was better for it.
Interesting photo to post on my birthday, right? Well, pull up chair. Let me tell you the story behind the story. Some of you know that in late 2019, I underwent serious physical trauma because of a botched surgery. What most don’t know is that I basically lost two years of
1/ I just finished a week of studying with an obscure sect of Buddhist monks. They’re the mystics of their tradition.
Every religion’s got mystics. They’re the crazy ones. Those who want to bypass dogma and bang on the very nature of reality itself.
When things are going well, ever have your mind ask, “what if it doesn’t last?”
How about asking yourself: “what if it gets better and better?”
Your mind, your choice.
I’ve known a few Alpha males in my life. Collectively, they’ve built companies, raised families, created art, neutralized terrorists, served their communities.
Not one ever called themselves an Alpha. They were too busy living it.
Close your eyes. Really.
Imagine yourself. The best version of you. All your potential realized. Feel this.
Open eyes. Live the next five minutes from this place.
Pretty cool, huh?
Repeat.
1: Find something heavy.
2: Lift again and again until your muscles are literally reeling from the assault.
3: Walk away, rest for a day, then return and find heavier weight. Repeat.
Your body and mind will grow.
Someone on Twitter asked me the purpose of life.
Damn fine question to consider, makes you think. My answer:
"To be the best and fullest expression of myself."
(not saying I achieve this, but worth aspiring to)
Brilliant Youtube comment on a
@joerogan
podcast:
"The internet is amazing for the fact that these people spend their whole lives working on something and I get a beautiful summarized version while eating a McMuffin."
komorebi- Japanese word used to describe the type of light you see in a forest; the rays of the sun that are filtered through the trees. Simply put, nature’s poetry.
.
@joerogan
: "If you were born in the times of Alexander the Great, you would also be a conqueror?"
@MikeTyson
: "No, I am a conqueror now because I've conquered myself and my demons."
Mike Tyson is a modern day Musashi
Last night, I went to the park and did pull-ups. Another man there, doing the same. We talked. He was in addiction recovery, recently homeless, building his life back up after losing most of his friends to heroin. The courage it takes to do what he's doing is incredible.
I came to the US as a child. The journey wasn’t easy, but this country gave me something truly special - opportunity.
And that’s made all the difference.
Our politics might be a shitshow, but our country is beautiful, filled with amazing people. Happy 4th everyone!
1/ Morning after surgery, something inside me exploded. I was doing so well that I was gonna be discharged way ahead of schedule in a few hours, and then this pain arose and built and built and finally hit and suddenly blood was spurting out of me like an uncontrolled fountain.
The deeper you go down the crypto rabbithole, the more you understand the matrix of control of our lives by central banks and tax authorities.
No wonder governments are worried.