Reflections You Get Another Choice in About Five Minutes
Living Bodhi is a choice. The good news is it isn't one choice. It comes around again every few minutes, and it doesn't care what you did with the last one.
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Reflections Enough Is Where You Start
That quiet Saturday morning when nothing was missing wasn't a break from real life. It was the starting line.
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Reflections We Couldn't Find This Quote in Epictetus. It's Still Right.
"The life you seek is hidden inside the discipline you avoid." It's all over the internet with a famous Stoic's name under it. We went looking and couldn't find it in his work. The line still works.
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Reflections Your Detours Were the Training
Most of us think our path took too long and had too many wrong turns. Look again. The detours made you someone nobody else could be.
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Reflections The Drift Isn't What Stops You. The Story Is.
Everybody falls off the things they swore to keep doing. What keeps most of us off isn't the missed time. It's what we say about ourselves afterward.
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Reflections Nice Is Not the Same Thing as Kind
Nice tells your friend his new app is great. Kind tells him the one thing he hasn't thought of yet, before launch day does.
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Reflections Venting Is Not a Plan
You've told the story about your boss eleven times. Nothing about it has changed. The story has gotten really good.
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Reflections "Sorry If You Were Offended" Is Not an Apology
The non-apology has the shape of an apology and none of the weight. Most of us have given one this year.
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Reflections Getting Boring Is Not Part of Growing Up
Somewhere between the slide and the park bench, most of us decided adults don't get to be bad at things in public.
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Reflections Cynicism Is Not Wisdom. It's a Scar.
Cynicism usually starts as a lesson you paid for. Somewhere along the way, it stops being a lesson and becomes a wall.
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Reflections Watching Someone Else's Adventure Is Not the Same Thing as Having One
You've seen thousands of emerald green islands of Southeast Asia. From your couch. Watching the trip and taking it might feel alike, but only one of them changes you.
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Reflections There Is No Black Belt in Waking Up
By 8 a.m. you've journaled, exercised, and taken a fistful of supplements. Are you awake yet?
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