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--- imported_by: wikihub-q7gz scraped_at: 2026-01-30 source_gdoc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1exaJX-k5hdfHLrz39t9YVChqX2Qwi9EXW6KXHoApSbA source_url: http://lifechangingthings.jacobcole.net/ title: Life Changing Things visibility: public --- <div> </div> [[systematicawesome]] \> [[lifechangingthings]] Contact: <jacobcole4000@gmail.com> LifeChangingThings Quotes, books, activities and more that have changed people’s lives Add your own, and add comments on how you connect to quotes! See also: [[quoteslist]] • [whyisitawesome.jacobcole.net](http://whyisitawesome.jacobcole.net/) • [Excellent Books (Jacob + Friends Curated)](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cy36gZz74NwjE9C1UOJ1OUPIIm4v5vSHpuhKcNetfcs) • [Jacob’s Raw Books List](https://docs.google.com/document/d/10hCB_gzJZ-Ns5JUkxpPR0DLKXSsCGRUYmsFvrCsairc) • [[lifechange]] # The List ## From Francis’ Salon Add more! \#book [Religiousness in Yoga](https://www.amazon.com/Religiousness-Yoga-Lectures-Theory-Practice/dp/0819109673) ~Desikachar. Preview: [http://yoga.jacobcole.net](http://yoga.jacobcole.net/) \#book Understanding Zen ~Benjamin Radcliffe \#ExplainingMeditation \#WhyAwesome: zen ## General List Add more! \#activity [Qigong standing: Embrace the Tree Exercise](https://sites.google.com/view/whyisitawesome/meditation-yoga-tai-chi-qigong?authuser=0) #meditation \#word \#concept Sonder \#activity Learning to surf → my first meditation. Made me more calm ~Jacob \#VideoGame <https://robocode.sourceforge.io/> – Fun way to learn to program, to do trig, etc. [http://robocode.jacobcole.net](http://robocode.jacobcole.net/) ~Jacob \#VideoGame [http://neopets.com](http://neopets.com/) – how I learned HTML ~Jacob [Making minimalist homepages](https://docs.google.com/document/d/16mZC7AqnNdBosLwYaHSyZSqQEKuoggT3mIfVIoaqvOA/pub) for myself and others Everything people say or do is either an expression of love or a cry for love. \#lifeChanging The Only Path to Serenity Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.<sup><a href="#cmnt1" id="cmnt_ref1">[a]</a></sup> Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.<sup><a href="#cmnt2" id="cmnt_ref2">[b]</a></sup> ~Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (chapter nine, translation by Stephen Mitchell) \#lifeChanging Isn’t it amazing that you don’t have to wait a single moment to start becoming the person you want to become? \#lifeChanging I meditate one hour every day, except those days I am too busy. Those days I meditate two hours. ~Gandhi 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? #lifeChanging 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 \#lifeChanging “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” ~Henry David Thoreau \#lifeChanging Find a happy person and you will find a project \#lifeChanging The stuff I do automatically, against my conscious intent, is a fountain of energy The ultimate surf to be ridden Which moves me in spite of myself \#Poem Comment: Surfing is a plainer metaphor than most for what is really going on in the world \#lifeChanging <div> <a href="#cmnt_ref1" id="cmnt1">[a]</a>! </div> <div> <a href="#cmnt_ref2" id="cmnt2">[b]</a>! </div> --- *Source: <http://lifechangingthings.jacobcole.net/>* *Google Doc: <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1exaJX-k5hdfHLrz39t9YVChqX2Qwi9EXW6KXHoApSbA>* *Scraped: 2026-01-30*