r/wisdom

When people seek advice they actually seeking a person that is dedicated to themselves for every minute and be the light of the room for them.

For example, a person seek advice on changing mindset and I know he is capable of doing that again and again himself, but still he seeks advice then it means he wanted you to act like a leader and show them every step you have told them to do.

Broken isn't made of substance. You don't find it on a shelf. You can't take it home. You can't wear it as the most prevalent description of yourself.

Not a noun - no person place or thing, broken is a verb. An action, results of something changed. Often meant in negativity, misunderstood again the same.

Broken can be used to build foundations of character or strength or educating. It often has a bitter taste but should never leave you hating.

Broken doesn't lose value, the changes can be rare. Broken can be a wonderful thing creating truely 1 of 1 masterpiece quality , something you want to handle with care.

Sometimes Broken calls the man who tries to fix and mend. It's in their nature to use the tools to try and restore it from the bend.

A man as handy, knowing how to fix broken indeed.... Can sometimes be misguided, too focused on if he will succeed.

He should be able to reconcile alone that not everything broken needs a helping friend. It's not your place to remind him ,... Broken is perfect and beautiful exactly how it is, regardless of end.

A group of friends and I were talking about this recently, and it got me wondering how other people think about it.

Not looking for a “right” answer—just your answer.

If someone put you on the spot and asked you to explain the meaning of life in a single sentence, what would you say?

About just everything life , love , finance, education, health ; anything!

Tired from pretending , living in fear always

i know there's like a lot of philosophies surrounding this but i want to know your subjective definition

I imagine we’re each given a canvas, though not a blank one. It already carries marks from family, body, history, longing, fear, inheritance.

Then we paint with our lives.

Some paintings are colorful, bright, or mixed-light. Some are dark, monotone, or abstract. Some are quiet, strange, half-finished.

I don’t think there’s a competition for best painting. I imagine the collector wants the whole archive because every life is a record of what consciousness can become under conditions.

Maybe the meaning of life is not to make the “right” painting, but to notice when you’ve been following a script about what you’re supposed to paint.

And then the painting begins to become yours.

If the collector wants the canvas regardless, what do I want to place on it while I still hold
the brush?

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Mine will be and is:

Slow down long enough to see things as they really are. People. Relationships. Money. Work. Life. Most of our problems begin when we ignore reality, and most of our solutions begin the moment we finally face it.

I try my best to preach this to my son on a daily basis because you just never know when it’s your time to go.

In recent decades gratitude has been found to have benefits for well-being, physical health, and the quality of our relationships. But researchers are increasingly recognizing that gratitude can also have a dark side -- it can, for example, keep us locked into unhealthy dynamics and reinforce bad habits.

In other words, gratitude research is finally catching up to Socrates, who recognized that we need a certain know-how he calls wisdom to use anything well or badly -- including gratitude (as we learn from Plato's Crito).

Socrates thought that we progress in this know-how by giving an account of our beliefs about what is good and bad and then examine them. So, to examine whether we are expressing gratitude beneficially or harmfully we can take a standard gratitude prompt like, "what am I grateful for?" and add on to it, "and why is it good?"

This gives us an invitation to explore the underlying beliefs on which our gratitude rests, as these evaluative beliefs are the pool from which we draw our gratitude (it's hard to imagine feeling grateful for something we think is bad).

Would love to hear any thoughts or feedback on this exercise, especially if you give it a try.

It’s so much simpler than you might think.

Simply mention something you succeeded at, something you’re proud of, something you achieved, something you’re working hard on or something you’re excited about. Don’t be braggy. Just light up with that childlike wonder that brings your soul alive, whatever that may be.

Do they frown and change the subject? Do they look down at the ground and zone out? Or do they light up and smile and match your excited energy?

You may be surprised to learn after running this test that in fact, you have close to zero real friends.

Nothing can destroy iron, but its own rust can. Similarly, nothing can destroy a person, but their own mindset can."

The more I thought about it, the more it made sense. Most of us spend so much time worrying about external problems—people, circumstances, bad luck, competition but sometimes the biggest battle is happening inside our own heads.

Self-doubt, fear, overthinking, negative self-talk, giving up too soon... these things slowly eat away at us, just like rust eats away at iron.

Do you agree with this quote, or do you think external circumstances have a bigger impact on a person's success and happiness? I'd love to hear different perspectives.

We're all gonna suffer one way or another. It's the way of life. Most people ignore the fact and then damn the world for their ignorance. Where one suffering ends another will reveal itself. Learning from our time suffering is key to alleviate our pain and the pain of others. Happiness, sadness, anger, content, contempt and all the other emotions come and go, but suffering and peace are two states apart from emotions. You will achieve the greatest of peace through your lessons suffering...and that is forever.

Hello asking these 2 questions to gain insight.There are no right or wrong answers.Just your personal opinions.Thanks.

We all learn lessons through experience, hardship, success, and time. Some truths seem to be timeless, yet they often get forgotten in today’s fast-paced world. What’s a lesson, truth, or piece of wisdom you believe people need to be reminded of? Why has it stayed with you?