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SELF-AWARENESS
The Most Important 21 Words Ever Spoken
This is all you need to know about life
I first understood how quickly life can change when my grandma died. I was 16 years old.
Grief hit me like a train crash but her death taught me a valuable lesson: Nothing is permanent in life. Everyone I love will sooner or later be gone from this world, and no one’s getting out of here alive.
As confronting as this was at the time, it was also liberating.
It helped me to not take life for granted and appreciate the people in my life because they can be gone in the blink of an eye.
Many spiritual teachers have shared a similar message
About a decade after my grandma passed, I attended my first 10-day Vipassana meditation course.
During this time, I learned the fundamental teachings of Buddha.
In short, he discovered that every sensation in the body evokes a feeling or emotion that causes a reaction. So, when we crave or feel an aversion to those sensations, they end up ruling our lives.
When I eat chocolate, for example, I get hit with a bunch of mood-enhancing chemicals such as serotonin, oxytocin, and dopamine, which make…
