About smoking and meditating
| Read this somewhere on reddit |
| Student: | Teacher, may we smoke while we meditate?. |
| Teacher: | Of course not! Don't be ridiculous, you are meditating! focus! smoking is nothing but a distraction. |
| So the student goes quiet for a while, thinking about what the teacher has said. |
| Student: | Teacher, may we meditate while we are smoking? |
| Teacher: | Of course! You may meditate whenever you like! Don't let what you are doing stop you from practicing! |
Nobody ever changes when they do things they like.
A failure is a project that doesn’t work, an initiative that teaches you something at the same time the outcome doesn’t move you directly closer to your goal.
A mistake is either a failure repeated, doing something for the second time when you should have known better, or a misguided attempt (because of carelessness, selfishness or hubris) that hindsight reminds you is worth avoiding.
We need a lot more failures, I think. Failures that don’t kill us make us bolder, and teach us one more way that won’t work, while opening the door to things that might.
School confuses us, so do bosses and families. Go ahead, fail. Try to avoid mistakes, though.
Visions are worth fighting for.
Why spend your life making
someone else’s dreams?
