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
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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
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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
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Zen Buddhism uses an array of different shock tactics and humor to counteract the mysticism that surrounds the rituals and dogma of most religions. Praying, studying, memorizing laws, debating minor precepts and nuances of the law and even talking about religion detract from the real direct purpose, which is to achieve awakening.
The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.
Satoru
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Show your appreciation and be a good friend. Even making or not making a simple phone call can be a significant contribution or distraction from a relationship or friendship. Friendship must be cultivated. If a stranger does a good deed for you, pass it on.
If two people agree all the time then one of them is unnecessary.
Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
Satoru
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A Way To Live – ZEN 