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LifeChangingThings

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

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The List

From Francis’ Salon

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#book Religiousness in Yoga ~Desikachar. Preview: http://yoga.jacobcole.net

#book Understanding Zen ~Benjamin Radcliffe #ExplainingMeditation #WhyAwesome: zen

General List

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#activity Qigong standing: Embrace the Tree Exercise #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 ~Jacob

#VideoGame http://neopets.com – how I learned HTML ~Jacob

Making minimalist homepages for myself and others

Everything people say or do is either an expression of love or a cry for love.

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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)

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Isn’t it amazing that you don’t have to wait a single moment to start becoming the person you want to become?

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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?

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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

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“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” ~Henry David Thoreau

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Find a happy person and you will find a project

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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

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Scraped: 2026-01-30