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When you Discover your Inner Beauty, you stop asking the World to Notice you
There comes a point in life when something quietly changes.
You still look in the mirror, like to dress well, nice hairdo or receive a compliment. But somehow, you no longer need any of it to feel beautiful. I have been experiencing this change in myself.
Earlier, like most of us, I was more conscious of how I looked, compliments, being noticed felt good. Today, I still take care of myself, but there is much less psychological investment in my appearance. If my hair isn’t perfect, or a photograph doesn’t make me look particularly good, I smile and move on. If someone doesn’t notice me, nothing inside me feels diminished. Beauty changes when we stop looking for it in the mirror.
The more I become aware of what is happening within me, the less I feel the need
to prove something through what is happening outside. There is a certain beauty in becoming comfortable within. Not because I have convinced myself that I am perfect. But because I have stopped making perfection a condition for my happiness.
Sadhguru puts this beautifully:**”The most important question to ask is, is it about looking good or is it about living good?”** He goes on to say that how wonderful we feel within ourselves is more important than how wonderful we look outside.
This is what inner beauty really means. It is not another version of physical beauty. It is the quality of your experience of yourself. When there is joy within you, you don’t constantly need someone else to confirm that you are worthy. When there is contentment, comparison loses its grips. The less you desperately seek attention, the more naturally you may become noticeable. There is a certain ease in such a person.
Sadhguru has another wonderful way of putting it: **”When one’s life energies are engineered in certain way, inner beauty and joy exudes naturally”** That is when beauty begins to move from the surface to the substance.
Growing older has taught me something unexpected. Age has a way of rearranging our priorities. Awareness deepens grace, humility and joy ignites the ability to sit quietly and enjoy your own company.
I think that is what many of us are searching for without realizing it. We spend years trying to make ourselves look beautiful. The deeper journey is to make our experience of being alive beautiful. Then something wonderful happens.
That, to me, is freedom.🕊️
#inspiration
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There comes a point in life when something quietly changes.
You still look in the mirror, like to dress well, nice hairdo or receive a compliment. But somehow, you no longer need any of it to feel beautiful. I have been experiencing this change in myself.
Earlier, like most of us, I was more conscious of how I looked, compliments, being noticed felt good. Today, I still take care of myself, but there is much less psychological investment in my appearance. If my hair isn’t perfect, or a photograph doesn’t make me look particularly good, I smile and move on. If someone doesn’t notice me, nothing inside me feels diminished. Beauty changes when we stop looking for it in the mirror.
The more I become aware of what is happening within me, the less I feel the need
to prove something through what is happening outside. There is a certain beauty in becoming comfortable within. Not because I have convinced myself that I am perfect. But because I have stopped making perfection a condition for my happiness.
Sadhguru puts this beautifully:**”The most important question to ask is, is it about looking good or is it about living good?”** He goes on to say that how wonderful we feel within ourselves is more important than how wonderful we look outside.
This is what inner beauty really means. It is not another version of physical beauty. It is the quality of your experience of yourself. When there is joy within you, you don’t constantly need someone else to confirm that you are worthy. When there is contentment, comparison loses its grips. The less you desperately seek attention, the more naturally you may become noticeable. There is a certain ease in such a person.
Sadhguru has another wonderful way of putting it: **”When one’s life energies are engineered in certain way, inner beauty and joy exudes naturally”** That is when beauty begins to move from the surface to the substance.
Growing older has taught me something unexpected. Age has a way of rearranging our priorities. Awareness deepens grace, humility and joy ignites the ability to sit quietly and enjoy your own company.
I think that is what many of us are searching for without realizing it. We spend years trying to make ourselves look beautiful. The deeper journey is to make our experience of being alive beautiful. Then something wonderful happens.
That, to me, is freedom.🕊️
#inspiration
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How do you plan your time, specifically, and how well does it work for you?
It has become clear to me just how much this practice varies in virtually every aspect, between one person and the next. But it's often an implied or unstated thing, as if there's one obvious way to do it right. How do you do it? How happy are you with it? What have you considered changing about it?
I'm interested in the high-level features and quantities, for example:
For about 15 minutes, about 3 times a day.
Consult longer-term lists and calendars for context but mostly focus on producing a good list for the short-term (the next few hours)
No more than 10 items on the list at a time, to make you think about what's most important.
Break things up enough to make allow realistic estimates for how long they'll (probably) take
Estimate at the generous end of realistic. Make slightly beatable estimates.
Actively try to beat these beatable estimates, to accumulate a buffer, feel ahead, and not be stressed.
How well does it work for me? Seems to save much more time than it takes as long as I don't half-arse it.
#inspiration
It has become clear to me just how much this practice varies in virtually every aspect, between one person and the next. But it's often an implied or unstated thing, as if there's one obvious way to do it right. How do you do it? How happy are you with it? What have you considered changing about it?
I'm interested in the high-level features and quantities, for example:
For about 15 minutes, about 3 times a day.
Consult longer-term lists and calendars for context but mostly focus on producing a good list for the short-term (the next few hours)
No more than 10 items on the list at a time, to make you think about what's most important.
Break things up enough to make allow realistic estimates for how long they'll (probably) take
Estimate at the generous end of realistic. Make slightly beatable estimates.
Actively try to beat these beatable estimates, to accumulate a buffer, feel ahead, and not be stressed.
How well does it work for me? Seems to save much more time than it takes as long as I don't half-arse it.
#inspiration
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Finish the small thing. The rest will wait.
You do not owe the whole staircase today.
One step that is actually finished.
#inspiration
You do not owe the whole staircase today.
One step that is actually finished.
#inspiration
