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This is a sequel to my original post on 33 of Life’s Most Powerful Lessons. These are personally the most powerful lessons I have learned in my life. You might ask why I chose to make a list like this, instead of writing articles to elaborate on each one. While I do believe there is a place for this, I believe sometimes more is said, when you say less.
I hope you enjoy these lessons, they are a little window into my soul of teachings that have changed my life. Everyone has their own truth though and what is true for me may not be true for you. I encourage you to share your own most powerful lessons with us in the comments below. =)
- Believing in yourself is the greatest gift you can give yourself.
- Your friends can be an elevator, or a cage.
- The best investment you can make, is in yourself.
- Suffering is the result of unfulfilled expectations.
- Intentions are like seeds in our consciousness, with water and nurture, they will flower into existence. What thoughts, what seeds, are you nurturing?
- What you feel is always right, however, the root of those feelings may be based on lies.
- The meaning of life is not found in something other than life.
- Your level of happiness is largely related to your level of intimacy with nature.
- Life is dreaming with the brain awake.
- Creatively expressing yourself is like making love to the universe.
- Everything is a game, or a dance, life is the ultimate game, the ultimate dance.
- Time is a real illusion.
- When beauty is seen as beauty, there is ugliness.
- When the mind is clear, a dark room has its blue sky.
- Sometimes the best answer is silence.
- We are not our bodies, we identify ourselves with our bodies, but in reality, we are the energy that moves through them.
- When tired, sleep, when hungry, eat.
- Division is only found in the mind, it is not present in reality.
- Love and compassion can heal the deepest wounds.
- An eye for an eye makes us all blind.
- The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.
- Practice makes the master, we are creatures of habit.
- If you want to receive, give.
- In life we have control over two things, what we think, and what we say.
- Your perception of others is a reflection of your own reality.
- If you believe you can, you can, if you believe you cannot, you cannot.
- When you are true to yourself in all your actions, your life takes on a whole new level of joy you never thought possible.
- Devotion is the supreme symbol of love.
- Life’s worth is not defined by external success, but by your collection of experiences.
- Everyone is an divine artist, writing their own story each day, choose to write your story with love.
- The meaning of life is found in the present, it is found now.
- Sometimes your joy comes from your smile.
- Imagine how our lives could change if with every action we simply asked ourselves “is this what I want?”
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the perfect sequel!
Great post! I just tried to stumble your page – but I got a 404 error…
Jonathan,
Beautiful! Great list of things to keep in mind on one’s path to self-mastery. I gave this a stumble. :-)
Thanks,
Desika
Hi Jonathan,
I would add that the only real problem in the world is separation – separation between us and God, and therefore each other. We are all One.
Blessings,
Andrea
thank you for putting into words what I have always felt and known to be true.
“In life we have control over two things, what we think, and what we say.” I would add that we also have control over how we choose to act and how we choose to feel.
It was a pleasure to give this a SU review. Several of these points are food for further pondering.
@ SimpleMindz: Hmm.. not sure on that one. Maybe SU was down?
@ Desika: thank you very much!
@ Andrea: I agree that is an essential issue. The importance is realizing the illusion of this separation.
@ Tom: That’s a good point. I think to bring it one step further in life we ultimately have the choice to either react or to respond. Reaction is automatic but responding is conscious and deliberate.
Jonathan…..At the end of the day, it all goes back into a box…..Every day above ground you have a choice to be here or somewhere else…. being in the present allows you to “be”….. Before you can do, you must “be”. Tasks and actions never replace the emptiness of lost time. Love more, hate less and be in the here, not the past or the future…. for you never know when all our toys go back into the box…. BE THE HERO….go and do….Terry McDaniel
#6 doesn’t make sense, perhaps you copied and pasted it from the middle of a sentence.
Also, in #33 there is a word usage error, “are” should be changed to “our”.
@jesus #6 isn’t an error, but the last one was a typo, thanks for pointing that out. =)
Great wisdom. Thanks. Will be back for more
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
this is wonderful. Thank you.
In regards to #6, I think it be clearer (and perhaps more grammatically correct) if it read as follows:
What you feel is always right. However, the root of those feelings may be based on lies.
The world would be a much happier place if everyone learned these 10 words: I was wrong. I am sorry. Will you forgive me?
This was a great article! It really helped me with my homework!! 8)
I’m going to borrow some of these to use on my facebook status, is that ok?
Amazing stuff!!!!!…. A real eye-opener :)
Thank you Jonathan
Thank you. Wonderful ideas and thoughts.
excuse me Andrea, religion is whats wrong with the world, worshiping some made up story instead of the universe we live in that created us. you couldn’t be more wrong.
Glad I stumbled on to this wonderful & practical site
And if You Believe in The Final Power,
You always get what you deserve, no more than you deserve,and no less than you deserve.
You will get what you deserve, when you deserve and how you deserve it.
Life is a reflection of you… life is beautiful when your heart is beautiful and life is ugly when your heart is ugly… really awesome blog, you have inspired me to pen down my life experiences…God bless
I’m the best because everybody else is.
thanks it had inspired me alot now i can live my life freely
1.Experience is the greatest teacher and through that experience comes forth wisdom.
2. If someone tells a lie on you don’t get angry or sad for thy creator knows the truth, then nothing else matters.
I often find myself feeling like I am not loved for who I am. I am on high alert for threats to the love I do experience. From now on, I choose love for myself so that I can be more receptive to and grateful for all that I have and am.
Beautiful I want to live it
The focus of life would be the laxity of moral that you lead to other/
It is almost truth that avoid all unshareable existance.
LOVE WHAT IS BELOVED TO HEART.
Giving respect is the mean of personalizing a character.
“talented people are the most practised ones”
I believe that you have a deep perception towards life and you have gone through variety of stuff which makes you write a blog like this. I really liked it.
The only thing we know is that we know nothing.
Understand before expecting to be understood.
Do not think of rights without responsibility.
He who cowers from a battle ends up fighting a war.
Treat others the way you want others to treat you.(The Golden Rule)
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Only when we are at our lowest, do we realize our true potential.
He who holds himself the highest has the farsthest to fall.
A problem from afar can be a solution up close.
Hope for the best and make good with what you get.
There is no victory without sacrifice.
Life is worth celebrating.
There are lessons you can’t find in a book.
No matter how strong you are, life will always knock you down, it is a matter of wether you’re strong enough to get back up.
A good man apologizes for his mistakes, A great man corrects them.
Choose thy love and love thy choice. ~German Proverb