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1 " The Secret to FlightDon't flap your wings so hard. It only exhausts you. Close your eyes. Lean into the currents, say yes. Let the wind raise you higher and higher. So easy. That's what Eagles do. Oh, this is the secret to life as well. "
― Kamal Ravikant , Rebirth: A Fable of Love, Forgiveness, and Following Your Heart
2 " How do you find peace?" I ask."I say 'yes,'" he says."To all that happens, I say 'yes. "
3 " Okay,” I say out loud. “If I loved myself, what would I do?” The monk from Dharamsala flashes by. His smile. “Say yes.” “Hey,” I say, then laugh slightly. “To what, this?” “Say yes.” “If I loved myself…?” “Say yes.” No "
4 " Two partners,” he whispers into my ear. His voice is hoarse. “Fear and faith. The one you dance with determines your life. "
5 " Near the edge of the garden wall, a white lotus grew among dry leaves in a small pond. The breeze picked up, the pond rippled, and leaves spiraled around the flower. "
6 " What to do next? Keep moving. Leave behind the past, the fears, the guilt, and lose myself in the new. With movement, there’s action. And with action, perhaps there are answers. For "
7 " The stories Hemingway told, the life he lived, all of it ended with a squeeze of a finger on a trigger. What else could he have done if he had put the shotgun down, gone back to bed? What would he have learned in that moment of choosing to live, what other books would have been written? Meanwhile, "
8 " I cross a bridge at the outskirts of town and look back over the river at rows of houses, windows, lines of drying laundry. It helps to have a set direction to move toward when your mind doesn’t want to think. The "
