A piece of wisdom from
January 3, 2019 · Thursday
The quote
“Pare down to the essence, but don't remove the poetry. Keep things clean and unencumbered, but don't sterilise.”
— Leonard Koren · Wabi-Sabi
The concept
Atomic Habits
Tiny changes. Remarkable results.
You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems. Atomic Habits is the science of how identity, environment, and four laws of behaviour change combine to make small actions compound into a different person, …
A practice for today
Walk one slow block today and observe the lesson of Atomic Habits. Tiny changes. Remarkable results.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 2.20
न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचिन्नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः। अजो नित्यः शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे॥
“The soul is never born, nor does it die. It has not come into being, will not come into being, and will not cease to be. Unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying, primeval — it is not slain when the body is slain.”
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