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A simple gateway to help expand access to wisdom, delivered in little nuggets, making BIG IDEAS for daily life more accessible.

The purpose here is simple, provide an accessible gateway to wisdom that expands human consciousness, offering brain food for life from the great minds throughout human history.

The idea is to provide access to BIG IDEAS in the form tasty little nuggets to read, providing practical ideas for daily life with a humorous twist, for people who want to better understand themselves, life, and how to cultivate a fulfilling existence.

THIS WEEKS LITTLE NUGGET

FUNDAMENTAL BIG IDEAS FROM THICH NHAT HANH

I started recently writing about my personal views and insights into the fundamentals of The Art of Transforming Suffering with No Mud, No Lotus by THICH NHAT HANH and leading up to the end of 2022, I will close that loop by summarising a few of the BIG IDEAS from this great man and his extraordinarily insightful mind.

The entire concept of the book The Art of Transforming Suffering with No Mud, No Lotus is dedicated to helping everyone cultivate joy and a meaningful happy existence through living in fulfilment.

What will follow in the weeks leading to the end of 2022 are some of big ideas from the book to share which are particularly helpful. I have made each one a short key extract from the book followed by a quote, and a personal thought on the section.

Starting today with the following "Little Nugget of Wisdom".

SUFFERING GOES HAND IN HAND WITH HAPPINESS

“When we suffer, we tend to think that suffering is all there is at the moment, and happiness belongs to some other time or place. People often ask, ‘Why do I have to suffer?’ Thinking we should be able to have a life without any suffering is as deluded as thinking we should be able to have a left side without a right side. The same is true of thinking we can have a life in which no happiness whatsoever is to be found. If the left says, ‘Right, you have to go away. I don’t want you. I only want the left’—that’s nonsense, because then the left would have to stop existing as well. If there’s no right, then there’s no left. Where there is no suffering, there can be no happiness either, and vice versa.”

“If, however, we are preoccupied with the fear and despair in us, we can’t help remove the suffering of others. There is an art of suffering well. If we know how to take care of our suffering, we not only suffer much, much less, we also create more happiness around us and in the world.”

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

If like me and so many others, you really want to live with a more peaceful approach to life, and have an ability to live beyond the increasing negativity playing out every day in the news, on social media, and the minds of those around you, then a great place to start is with better access to wisdom from great thinkers far beyond the noise of today.

Taking more time to look inward is something completely overlooked by many today, and is yet highly recommended as our own thought processes are ultimately the problem. Learning to stop reacting to external situations with negative mental fluctuations, and then getting really good at breathing, being calm, and cultivating the gardens of the mind into peaceful places to relax is the goal. This is no quick fix, it is a life long learning of practice and practical implementation every day to suffer better, feel better.

In taking on this process of learning, growth and development every day, regardless of the noise and drama playing out externally, we find ourselves surrounded by a sense of calm, and new beautiful flowers of positive thought aligned to things that give us a sense of joy and happiness in the moment, rather than constantly living in the past, hoping that tomorrow will change, or catastrophising about the future.

I hope these concepts that I will share during the next few weeks leading up to the end of 2022 are as helpful to you as they are to me and so many others.

I do thoroughly recommend reading the book in full. It is actually quite a short book. If however you don't do that, the little nuggets of insightful wisdom to follow will give you the headlines during the next few weeks, leading up to the end of 2022.

The ultimate goal for me is to fuel my own creativity, learn and develop myself while cultivating a fulfilling existence. In doing this and removing some of the bullshit that negatively impacts our minds in daily life, I hope to support better brighter futures for everyone on a journey of Positive Transformation, Growth, & Personal Development. Including me!

Get in touch with me via the Website, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook to share your little nuggets of wisdom and your personal stories of BEING RELENTLESS, BEING YOU, and how you are creating an OPPORTUNITY MINDSET on your own exciting life journey of Change, Positive Transformation, Growth, & Personal Development.