The joy of mentoring isn't in seeing your proteges follow in your footsteps. It's in helping them discover and develop their own principles and passions.

Adam Grant

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The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.

Ramana Maharshi

Get it done now. The anxiety of continually thinking about a task you're not doing, and beating yourself up over it, is often more difficult (and time-consuming) than actually doing it.

When you drop ego, you can have great fun because you are no longer taking anything personally. You are a detached observer which has a peculiar joy of its own. Ego is a source of great tension. Egoistic people are anxious, self-defensive and uptight.

The Ancient Sage

Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.

Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

Shirley MacLaine

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