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Travel and Insights

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“Psychotropic epiphanies and profound insights start with a smile.”

Mel Hantz, Educator, Teacher of the year.

Some people travel and have been nowhere.  Some have traveled little but have seen. Foreign places cosmopolitan and isolated, opulent and poor or remote, unique and populated, may all embody elusive truths that we seek or need.  But the reality of life is that we only need the basics and want what is both infinite and ephemeral. The truths about places that are untouched by the outside world is that they can only hold up a tiny portion of the psychological mirror that will enable us to be objective, think new thoughts and encourage our imaginations to soar.

Satoru
www.awaytolive.com

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Don’t sell yourself short.

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People generally take you at your own estimation of your own worth.

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind.  To be happy, rest like a great tree in the width of them all.

Happiness comes from within. If you choose to be happy, no one and no thing can ever take that happiness from you.

Satoru
www.samuraizen.com

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Positive Attitude

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You can and must do better.  Resting on past success is a sure road to failure.  Doing things the same way without trying to improve yourself and your methods is boring and self-defeating.  Keep pushing if you want to succeed and most of all expect to succeed.  More is a self-fulfilling prophecy especially if you pursue it with passion.

A positive attitude toward life and aging tops all other life-extending strategies.

Satoru
www.samuraizen.com

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Smile! Like life, Zen is much too important to be taken seriously.

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Get outside of your tunnel vision to develop critical insights and focus on the personal and human dimension.

Happiness is an attractive quality.  Pessimists, although they may be right sometimes never make money.  It is the optimists that take the chances and reap the rewards.

Simply be yourself and don’t compete or compare.

Satoru
www.samuraizen.com

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Physical actions help to determine our mood.

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Look in the mirror.  Make a fist and a frowning face.  Jump up and down and yell.  You will begin to get angry.

Now start to smile slowly aiming toward laughing out loud.  Because it takes twice as many muscles in the face to smile rather then frown, it is actually easier to smile.  Each muscle does not have to work as hard and all work together more easily.  Now think of something that makes you happy.  Use your imagination and visualize.  Look into the mirror and watch happiness well up in you as easily as it does in a child with a lollypop.

An amused attitude toward life can get you through some difficult and ridiculous situations.  Try laughing out loud next time one comes.

A hundred years from now it will not make any difference.

Satoru
www.samuraizen.com