10 Things You Should Quietly Eliminate from Your Life – A Stoic Guide to...

So clear, true and powerful! The heart of Stoic wisdom and the human experience.

Leave Behind These 6 Habits - A Powerful Zen Story

1-Procrastination: Need for Discipline; Do it now

2-Self-Doubt: Must believe in yourself, above all else

3-Negative self-talk: Cultivate a positive mindset & supportive inner narrative

4-Fear of Failure: Embrace the opportunity to learn and grow wiser; Resilience in response to adversity

5-Need for Validation: Seek validation only from yourself, live in integrity, then others will naturally follow

6-Need for Control: Surrender to life's unpredictable nature, cease fixating on outcomes, "let go & let God"

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I will add to this that #5 is central to the notion of RESPECT, only I would say the title of this video can be misleading as the real theme of it is about SELF-respect. This is really about proving your own worth to yourself, and acting consistent with your values is that real integrity which becomes true Respect.

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7-12-23 (5:38 pm)

Law of Reversed Effort

To be open, relaxed and receptive ultimately trumps the use of force, hustle and the will to achieve or conquer. Letting go gives us strength to hold on, as a tree bending (not breaking) in heavy winds. 

As Bruce Lee said “to be like water”. Wu Wei in Taoism, means to be in flow, flexibility and no friction. To give up resisting and fighting against the current. Surrender in action.

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How to Stop Wasting Your Life - Carl Jung as Therapist

Finding purpose, "helping my father, the Sun, over the horizon"... Divine Play manifested in many forms, mainly in other beings and within at the core of my own being. Having purpose, a place of self-transcendence and ultimate fulfillment (full individuation or wholeness) simultaneously; all of which begins with deep dark shadow work... the first prerequisite is to normalize being curious about and investigating one's inner life, thoughts, feelings, and all hidden material. 

Great documentary of Carl Jung from The Academy of Ideas..

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" ..that gives peace, when people feel they are living as actors in the Divine Drama. That gives the only meaning to human life, everything else is banal and you can dismiss it. A career, producing of children, are all maya when compared with that one thing, that your life is meaningful". 

~Carl Jung

Being and Solitude

“All of humanity’s problems stem from a man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone”.

Blaise Pascal

Don't Worry, Everything is Out of Control | Stoic Antidotes to Worry

No worries are in any way helpful. Focus exclusively on what you DO have control over, the stoics say again and again! Vigilant, mindful presence, taking good care, is the best answer and antidote to compulsive habitual worries. Having done what i could to give my full attention and respond accordingly i am less inclined to dwell on it mentally and surrender control of the outcome to God/Universe and faith therein.

J.D. Zenie

Listening to Source, Transcending Content

The answer I was looking for in response to the endlessly overwhelming amount of content coming from outer sources. One must return to the body and authentic self, not looking outside oneself all the time for answers to life’s many challenges. The limited capacity and time for taking everything in from the outside is pointing right back to your inner source of love and light, and to taking practical action (a daily practice). To thine own Self be true. Sage like wisdom shared here by the author, so much more than mere content!

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Relax and Release

Learning to let go of outside conditions and needing nothing outside of us because nothing of unhappiness is stored inside. We let go of our inner resistance to allow each challenging moment of life to purify us of all that we normally avoid and don’t want to experience. Life challenges us to be free of our stored traumas and continue questioning why we think anything outside of ourselves is needed to heal, fulfill or satisfy us. If I don’t need/want to take anything from anyone then I am free and willing to give totally of my self, every moment. 

Singer expresses well that the goal of this lifetime is to “leave with less than we came here with”; the opposite philosophy of “he who dies with the most toys wins”.

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Reduce your Desire(s), Open your Heart and Free your Soul

On the deadliest of the seven deadly sins, the mother of them all, and blind ignorance at the root of all irrational fears and needless hostilities. Greed is definitely NOT good.

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Thinking is about Past and Future, Reality is Now

A memory is a remembrance right now of something that happened in a previous now. The power to be and do fully always is found only in the present, where LIFE IS.

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“Nothing ever happened in the past, it happened in the Now.. Nothing will ever happen in the future? It will happen in the Now.”

 Eckhart Tolle

Seek not Happiness but Liberation from Ignorance, Fear and Sorrow (…and the painful addiction to pleasures, in pursuit of a false happiness)

You seek after only what you appear to lack, and as with the search for misplaced objects goes, the harder you look for it the more certain that it remains lost. Giving up the search, suddenly it reappears in that instant of letting go. To persistently keep looking for happiness is to keep insisting that it’s not here now. The very nature of joy is a contented state of inner fullness, lacking nothing, never seeking happiness in the externals themselves, and conversely empty of all unhappiness inherent in unfulfilled desire(s). 

In Peaceful Surrender..

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Stoic Meditations on Character and the Triumph of Reason

Stoic principles contemplated in Marcus Aurelius’ journals embody a mindful right action philosophy and a work ethic that practices integral harmony of thought, word and deed. Duty in stoicism is about embracing the tough realism of daily living with positive perspective(s), great strength in self-control and conversely releasing all thoughts of control over what is beyond our human capacity to change. 

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Letting Go of Ego

Impeccably illustrated synopsis of Ryan Holiday’s best selling work. Stoic guidance (understanding the immature ego to be dysfunction itself) taken from ancient philosophers which have as much relevance today. 

This writer does believe that a mature and healthy ego (self-confident) exists in the individual whose in alignment with this core wisdom, with nature itself.. These more evolved egos are highly competent, creative and productive, having reduced or eliminated entirely any/all inflated sense of personal importance.

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Letting Things Go

The “commitment to stay conscious” is based on knowing that you are the light of consciousness and not the objects It shines upon. The things in themselves are of creation (13.8 billion years!) and have nothing to do with me personally. Only the conscious awareness is really you and not anything you are momentarily aware of in consciousness.

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“Love says I AM EVERYthing, Wisdom says I AM NOthing, and in between these my life flows”.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Doing the Inner Work

Quite refreshing and informative to hear a more enlightened perspective on the Virgoan archetype, two days before my Solar return. 

Thanks and Blessings..

JDZ

Staying Centered in the Seat of Self — Your Central Purpose

Commitment to Stay Conscious ~ Michael Singer

The inner work, to “relax and release” (Singer’s terms), to let everything be, then to let it all go. To let go of anything you must own it and allow it to exist fully in the light of your consciousness. 

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“You commit to maintaining your center of consciousness, which nothing can take away from you, and you do the work to make it happen.”

Micheal Singer

True Self Love

Learning to quiet the critical inner voice and see through the self-induced pressures (socially learned) to achieve an imagined state of perfection. Mistakes are food for learning and exercises in self-compassion.

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Consciousness Shared By All

 The impossibility of humans having separate consciousness though it feels this way to everyone. All share the common experience of being the conscious center or subject of the universe, and thus our seemingly personal experience is really trans personal intelligence.

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Devotional Chants to Shiva ~ Positive Negation preceding All (Co)Creation

“Emptiness is Form, Form Emptiness”

Inner Wealth precedes Outer Abundance…

Core Intention is Regeneration, from the inside out…

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Goddess Energy to Purify Heart

Uplifting sounds from India..