1. Accepting the fact the life is difficult will make your life easier.

“Life presents challenges. This realization is profound, one of the most profound truths. It holds such significance because upon embracing it, we rise above. When we deeply grasp and acknowledge the difficulty of life, it loses its power over us. Acceptance transforms life’s difficulty from a burden into a mere fact, rendering it inconsequential.”

2. Your time is valuable; don’t waste it.

“Without recognizing your own worth, you won’t appreciate the significance of your time. And without valuing your time, you’ll struggle to invest it in meaningful pursuits.”

3. Discomfort propels you to change your life.

“Our most remarkable moments often arise amidst discomfort, discontent, or a sense of unfulfillment. It’s during these challenging times that we’re spurred to break free from routine and seek out new paths or more authentic truths.”

4. Uncertainty makes you grow.

“If we have a precise destination in mind, a clear route mapped out, and foreknowledge of every sight along the journey, there’s little room for learning.”

5. Growing up is an ongoing process.

“All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up–that growing is an ever ongoing process.”

6. You have to actively work on solving your own problems.

“Challenges don’t vanish on their own. They require active resolution; otherwise, they persist as obstacles to spiritual growth and development indefinitely.”

7. Without discipline we can solve nothing.

“”Discipline serves as the fundamental toolkit for resolving life’s challenges. Without it, we can solve nothing; with partial discipline, only certain issues; and with full discipline, we can tackle all problems.”

8. Focus on being a person worthy of love instead of looking for love.

“If your primary aim is to be loved, you will inevitably fall short. True love comes from being a person of worth, and you cannot achieve that worthiness by passively seeking love.”

9. Courage is not the absence of fear.

“Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear, the moving out against the resistance engendered by fear into the unknown and into the future.”

10. One must always believe in miracles.

“The mind, which sometimes presumes to believe that there is no such thing as a miracle, is itself a miracle.”

11. You have to be responsible for your own behaviour.

“When we try to evade accountability for our actions, we often try to shift that responsibility onto others or external entities. However, in doing so, we relinquish our own power to those entities.”

12. Dependency is not love.

“Dependency may masquerade as love, compelling individuals to tightly bond with each other. However, it’s not genuine love; rather, it’s a counterforce to love. Stemming from a lack of parental love, it perpetuates this deficiency, prioritizing reception over giving and hindering growth rather than fostering it. Instead of nurturing relationships and individuals, it ensnares and stifles, ultimately leading to destruction.”

13. Self-love is essential to building lasting relationships.

“Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.”

14. There is no growth without suffering.

“So if your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. First, you cannot achieve them without suffering, and second, insofar as you do achieve them, you are likely to be called on to serve in ways more painful to you, or at least demanding of you, than you can now imagine.”

15. We must teach our children how to value themselves.

“The sense of personal value, the belief ‘I am a valuable individual,’ is crucial for mental well-being and forms the bedrock of self-discipline. This conviction is primarily instilled in childhood through parental love and is challenging to develop in adulthood. Yet, when children are nurtured with parental love and learn to perceive themselves as valuable, their spirits become resilient against the challenges of adulthood.”

16. Life and death are interchangeable.

“Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live,” said Seneca two millennia ago, “and what will amaze you even more, throughout life one must learn to die.”

17. Honesty is the best way to get rid of fear.

“The more honest one is, the easier it is to continue being honest, just as the more lies one has told, the more necessary it is to lie again.  By their openness, people dedicated to the truth live in the open, and through the exercise of their courage to live in the open, they become free from fear.”

18. People only see what they want to see.

“Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a profound tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.”

19. The highest forms of love are inevitably totally free choices and not acts of conformity.

“When individuals marry, pursue careers, or have children solely to meet the expectations of others, whether it be their parents or society, their commitment inherently lacks depth. Similarly, when one’s love for their children is primarily dictated by societal norms rather than genuine affection, it impedes their ability to perceive and respond to their children’s nuanced needs and express love in meaningful ways.”

20. Pure love is an extension of the self rather than sacrifice of the self.

“Parents who resort to telling their children, ‘You should be grateful for all that we’ve done for you,’ often demonstrate a significant deficiency in genuine love. True love finds joy in the act of loving itself. When we authentically love, it stems from a desire to do so willingly. We choose to have children because we genuinely want them, and if we exhibit loving behavior as parents, it’s because we genuinely aspire to be loving parents.”

21. Confusion ignites enlightenment.

“We are often most in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.”

22. The journey of spiritual growth is a lonely one.

“Even when we truly understand these matters, the journey of spiritual growth is still so lonely and difficult that we often become discouraged.”

23. Children learn by observing what you do instead of listening to what you say.

“The worldview we develop is less influenced by what our parents say and more shaped by the environment they create through their actions.”

24. There is nothing beyond the limits of our vision.

“There are no bounds to our vision. When we choose to pursue something, we can always discover the means to achieve it.”

25. Giving up parts of ourselves is the only way to live.

“I came to understand that the discomfort of losing balance outweighs the challenges of relinquishing certain aspects to preserve it. It’s a lesson I’ve had to repeatedly remind myself of. Just as everyone must, as we navigate through life’s twists and turns, we are constantly called upon to let go of certain parts of ourselves. The only alternative to this sacrifice is to refrain from embarking on life’s journey altogether.”