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Too many people believe that the quality of their life or the lives of others is a function of the empathy of the world around them.
Think differently.
The quality of your life is not mostly how life treats you but how you respond to whatever life throws in an excellent way.
Think differently.
The quality of your life is not mostly how life treats you but how you respond to whatever life throws in an excellent way.
People are very hot about external systemic things but nowhere near hot enough about the condition of their own internal systems, particularly the condition of their own mental system (how you think) and their own values system (how you decide).
I’ve had people ask me “Why would God allow this?”
I ask them back: “Allow what?”
Most of them just say: “This! Aren’t you paying attention?”
I say, “What is ‘this’ that you’re talking about. You’re asking me to help you make sense of something you won’t process in detail.”
I ask them back: “Allow what?”
Most of them just say: “This! Aren’t you paying attention?”
I say, “What is ‘this’ that you’re talking about. You’re asking me to help you make sense of something you won’t process in detail.”
They’ll say something like “Why will God allow people to get sick?”
I’ll ask: “What did you eat for dinner? Was it healthy?”
They’ll say: “That doesn’t matter. I know of a lot of healthy and disciplined people who have gotten sick.”
I’ll ask: “Can you name 10 of them?”
I’ll ask: “What did you eat for dinner? Was it healthy?”
They’ll say: “That doesn’t matter. I know of a lot of healthy and disciplined people who have gotten sick.”
I’ll ask: “Can you name 10 of them?”
Our conversation jumps from one abstract injustice to another abstract concern to another abstract issue, and every time I ask back, give me tangible examples (not concepts), in your life (not in the media), they usually can’t give enough tangible examples in their own life.
Very quickly 6 heads show:
1. Entitlement masked as individual rights
2. Impatience masked as improvement
3. Superstition masked as spirituality
4. Vanity masked as self-love
5. Unreasonableness masked as Political Correctness
6. Irresponsibility masked as freedom
1. Entitlement masked as individual rights
2. Impatience masked as improvement
3. Superstition masked as spirituality
4. Vanity masked as self-love
5. Unreasonableness masked as Political Correctness
6. Irresponsibility masked as freedom
We have a culture that relishes swimming in issues. We let media puke on them all day every day. And we have no external and internal systems to filter, to process, to metabolize all this inflow then we wonder why we ‘think’ the world is horrible all the time.
We consume without being mindful. We consume without thinking about the effects on our internal systems. We don’t ask: Is this helping me think properly? Is this leading me to evaluate things properly?
Here’s what unmindful media consumption will lead to:
1. An inability to determine truth and facts rationally
2. An inability to appreciate the goodness of the world
3. An inability to maximize your own creativity to shape your own life
1. An inability to determine truth and facts rationally
2. An inability to appreciate the goodness of the world
3. An inability to maximize your own creativity to shape your own life
We say, “I’m so confused?”
Of course! We don’t know how to determine truth and facts beyond what we feel.
We say, “The world is so crazy!”
Of course! We filled our soul with scandal.
We say, “I feel stressed and helpless”
Of course! We’re not exercising our creativity.
Of course! We don’t know how to determine truth and facts beyond what we feel.
We say, “The world is so crazy!”
Of course! We filled our soul with scandal.
We say, “I feel stressed and helpless”
Of course! We’re not exercising our creativity.
All of this to say, again, the quality of your life is a function of your ability to respond to whatever life throws at you in an excellent way. So don't let "the world" happen to you, when it should be you that's happening to the world.
