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LifeChangingThings

Quotes, books, activities and more that have changed people’s lives

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#	Content	Link	Section	Status	Visibility	Source
1	Add more!	—	From Francis’ Salon	—	inherit	—
2	#book Religiousness in Yoga ~Desikachar. Preview: http://yoga.jacobcole.net	yoga.jacobcole.net	From Francis’ Salon	—	inherit	—
3	Add more!	—	General List	—	inherit	—
4	[#activity Qigong standing: Embrace the Tree Exercise](https://sites.google.com/view/whyisitawesome/meditation-yoga-tai-chi-qigong?authuser=0) #meditation	—	General List	—	inherit	—
5	[#VideoGame https://robocode.sourceforge.io/ – Fun way to learn to program, to do trig, etc. http://robocode.jacobcole.net](http://robocode.jacobcole.net/) ~Jacob	—	General List	—	inherit	—
6	[#VideoGame http://neopets.com](http://neopets.com/) – how I learned HTML ~Jacob	—	General List	—	inherit	—
7	[Making minimalist homepages](https://docs.google.com/document/d/16mZC7AqnNdBosLwYaHSyZSqQEKuoggT3mIfVIoaqvOA/pub) for myself and others	—	General List	—	inherit	—
8	Everything people say or do is either an expression of love or a cry for love.	—	General List	—	inherit	—
9	The Only Path to Serenity	—	General List	—	inherit	—
10	Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.	—	General List	—	inherit	—
11	Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.	—	General List	—	inherit	—
12	Chase after money and security	—	General List	—	inherit	—
13	[and your heart will never unclench.[a]](#cmnt1)	—	General List	—	inherit	—
14	Care about people’s approval	—	General List	—	inherit	—
15	and you will be their prisoner.	—	General List	—	inherit	—
16	Do your work, then step back.	—	General List	—	inherit	—
17	[The only path to serenity.[b]](#cmnt2)	—	General List	—	inherit	—
18	~Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching	—	General List	—	inherit	—
19	(chapter nine, translation by Stephen Mitchell)	—	General List	—	inherit	—
20	Isn’t it amazing that you don’t have to wait a single moment to start becoming the person you want to become?	—	General List	—	inherit	—
21	I meditate one hour every day, except those days I am too busy. Those days I meditate two hours. ~Gandhi	—	General List	—	inherit	—
22	Comment: To motivate myself to meditate, I ask myself: honestly, can I save more than 20 minutes today by taking 20 minutes to meditate? Can I save more than an hour over the course of the week by taking an hour to meditate?	—	General List	—	inherit	—
23	#lifeChanging	—	General List	—	inherit	—
24	Learning to meditate is like a soldier learning to put down his sword — it’s useless if you simply go and pick it up again when you are done ~Dalal Lama	—	General List	—	inherit	—
25	“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” ~Henry David Thoreau	—	General List	—	inherit	—
26	Find a happy person and you will find a project	—	General List	—	inherit	—
27	The stuff I do automatically,	—	General List	—	inherit	—
28	against my conscious intent,	—	General List	—	inherit	—
29	is a fountain of energy	—	General List	—	inherit	—
30	The ultimate surf to be ridden	—	General List	—	inherit	—
31	Which moves me in spite of myself #Poem	—	General List	—	inherit	—
32	Comment: Surfing is a plainer metaphor than most for what is really going on in the world	—	General List	—	inherit	—
33	[[a]](#cmnt_ref1)!	—	General List	—	inherit	—
34	[[b]](#cmnt_ref2)!	—	General List	—	inherit	—

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