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#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times QUOTES

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times QUOTES

1 " We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

2 " I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

3 " When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

4 " Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

5 " When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

6 " In mastering one thing, you have mastered all things because you have learned how to learn. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

7 " This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

8 " You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

9 " For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

10 " The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

11 " Constantly re-evaluating your purpose is the best way to ensure that you are pursuing the goals of who you are and not who you used to be. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

12 " Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

13 " The very fact that you can observe this thinking mind is proof that you are not this thinking mind. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

14 " Everyone, no matter how historically famous or modernly praised, has no idea about the ultimate truth of what it means to be human. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

15 " He plays the same game, but for the first time in his life he is truly playing, rather than working, being a human, and this is a vast distinction realized by few. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

16 " It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

17 " This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

18 " That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

19 " We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

20 " I do not begin to think that I could possibly understand its inner-workings and the deepest truths of the cosmos with the 28 years that I have lived in Central New Jersey of the United States of America. "

― Chris Matakas , #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times