Zen Habits (Leo Babauta)

Just to be clear, Pope Leo is a different guy than me, no need for congratulatory messages to me.


Also, "Pope Leo" is going to be my rapper name sometime in the future. 🙏🏽

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"We must love one another or die."
- W.H. Auden

Out for a run with the wife. I won btw.

(Win = getting to go on a run with her)

Thich Nhat Hahn poem

Questions to shift your thinking:

What's under my control?
What would I do if I trusted myself completely?
Will this matter in a year?
What if reputation didn't matter?

“There is the source of fire, there is the fullness of energy. A man who is not on fire is nothing: he is ridiculous, he is two-dimensional. He must be on fire even if he does make a fool of himself. A flame must burn somewhere, otherwise no light shines; there is no warmth, nothing.” - Carl Jung

Authorship is when we decide we're going to focus on what we can control. And do something about it.

Victimhood is what we feel when we are hurt: it's their fault, why is this happening to me, I can't do this, why do I have to do this, why doesn't anyone care about me, the world is messed up, they shouldn't act that way.

The most powerful mental shift we can make is to go from victimhood to authorship. Over and over again.

If you had to evacuate your house, what would you absolutely take with you? And what would you not care about?

It's a real question some people are facing right now, but it might be useful for us all to contemplate. We might be reminded how few possessions actually matter.

Each moment is wondrous, if we allow ourselves to be curious.

Forgiveness of others and ourselves is a beautiful act of letting go and of love. Forgive freely.

"When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see."

- Norman Fischer, Zen teacher

If you're overwhelmed by all the things you have to do, remember that there's only one thing on your list: the task in front of you right now.

I'm practicing radical intimacy with every experience of life, no matter how difficult.

It's a heart-opened way of living, but not easy ❤️

Feeling incredibly open-hearted today. There's no magic like it in the world.

How can we live more if our lives in this state?

How to Actually Create Meaningful Life Changes This Year - Zen Habits Website

How to Actually Create Meaningful Life Changes This Year: https://zenhabits.net/new-year/

4 Tips for an Amazing Year

Video: 4 Tips for an Amazing Year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Bz-R3S1X8

'Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.'

- Byron Katie

Reading 'Intermezzo' by Sally Rooney. It's good so far! But too early to recommend.

Brand-new fresh year! It's a blank canvas, what shall we do with it?

I'm planning on:

1. Taking my health & fitness to a new level
2. Writing a book
3. Relaunching my membership program with a new focus
4. Reading a lot

🎉

Wishing you all an incredible New Year! Here's to a beautiful 2025 ✨

Essential Zen Habits of 2024 - Zen Habits Website

Essential Zen Habits of 2024 https://zenhabits.net/zh2024/

'Darkness is the place where the mind is forced to detach itself from whatever it has grabbed onto in life. And in that nothingness, in that dark place, we awaken.'

- Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, Opening to Darkness

'Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.'

- Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones

Removing the door from the doing.

Letting the self fade into the background.

Blurring the boundaries between ourselves and everything else.

What would action be like, from this place?

When we're hurt, all of us feel like victims. It's human.

To shift out of the victim mindset:

* Let yourself feel the hurt
* See it as a part of your growth
* Take responsibility for your part
* Decide what you want to do next, to reclaim your authorship