Vishen Lakhiani

everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you.

Lawrence Pearsall Jacks wrote:
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.

We shouldn’t do things so we can be happy. We should be happy so we can do things.

But of course it’s not just authority figures on the largest scale who dominate us. Interestingly, some people express feeling a sense of freedom after their parents die, because they finally feel able to follow their own desires, opinions, and goals, free of parental expectations and the pressure to conform to rules their parents approved of.

I sat down every morning and visualized my sales doubling. I felt the excitement I’d feel in advance and I’d celebrate hitting my targets as if it were already a done deal. I breathed deep and connected to my newfound relationship with my gut feeling. I started listening quietly for inner guidance so I could use it at work.

The meditation helped massively with my stress levels too, so I was on the ball from the get-go. I used my newfound levels of energy and empathy to connect, properly, with whoever picked up that phone, which did wonders for my customer rapport. Guess what happened?

You see, something somewhat inconvenient happens when you start to meditate.

You start to become a better person.

Meditation and intuition, I explained. There was a long pause.

Silva called this
approach “active” meditation

I left that seminar with the most peace I’d ever had in my life