Passion

Btw if you use mindfulness and/or meditation you can be passionate about almost anything.

I rly liked this article and have been practicing for a week:
Mindfulness: How Far Can You Go? Unraveling the Russian dolls in your mind.

It's like levels in poker, just with your own mind.

L1- you think thoughts
L2 -you realize the thoughts you are thinking
L3 - you realize how realizing the thoughts you were thinking make you feel
L4 ....

It's like being a witness, a curious observer of your own mind - that way you can enjoy new things and mundane things alike, and as I'm hoping eventually completely command your mind to enjoy anything, think about whatever you want whenever you want and be completely in control of what you enjoy and are passionate about

I'm a big fan of spiritual texts like the Tao Te Ching, the Bhagavad Gita, etc.
Very interested in philosophy, books by Eckhart Tolle, etc.

Been a happy healthy positive well nourished dude for a while ;D

That handful of LSD trips I did a while back didn't hurt either O_O

sliggy i cant believe you are like that 24/7/365

there are just so many ups and downs in life. Also the boring everyday routines, where u dont feel happy nor sad, you are just there and doing stuff.
There cant be constant happiness, unless you are on drugs 24/7

On May 21 2014 09:55 dnagardi wrote: sliggy i cant believe you are like that 24/7/365 there are just so many ups and downs in life. Also the boring everyday routines, where u dont feel happy nor sad, you are just there and doing stuff. There cant be constant happiness, unless you are on drugs 24/7

If you are mindful of those tasks they become a joy too actually

It's a very hard thing to do though

On May 21 2014 08:10 Sliggy wrote: I'm passionate as fuck about everything all the time. Every time I shower I'm just like "holy fuck I live in Australia my life rules. Also I'm in a shower." Every fan I see bopping their head at one of my band's gigs makes me just want to whip out my dick and fuck existence itself. Poker and music and reading make me feel like my being is charged with the essence of the universe. I cleaned the kitchen yesterday and just stared at how clean that motherfucker was and loved every second. Eating obscenely healthy, meditating, and sleeping right all help with this philosophy. My post sounds a little "jock quarterback" style but I mean every word

loooooooool

demeanor reminds me very much of this guy:

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/2549849730.html

On May 21 2014 10:17 Smuft wrote: Show nested quote + On May 21 2014 08:10 Sliggy wrote: I'm passionate as fuck about everything all the time. Every time I shower I'm just like "holy fuck I live in Australia my life rules. Also I'm in a shower." Every fan I see bopping their head at one of my band's gigs makes me just want to whip out my dick and fuck existence itself. Poker and music and reading make me feel like my being is charged with the essence of the universe. I cleaned the kitchen yesterday and just stared at how clean that motherfucker was and loved every second. Eating obscenely healthy, meditating, and sleeping right all help with this philosophy. My post sounds a little "jock quarterback" style but I mean every word loooooooool demeanor reminds me very much of this guy: http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/2549849730.html

oh god this is awesome

On May 21 2014 03:52 LemOn[5thF] wrote: Show nested quote + On May 21 2014 03:31 k4ir0s wrote: Do you guys still feel passionate about things in your lives? Yep. Poker. And it feels more and more so every day. I must say having young arrogant cunts on Skype that are super obsessed with the game helps a ton. Like yesterday we found a new concept and discussed it until 4am including arguing logic, doing math with no brain power left and scrambling forum posts and watching vids until my body and mind gave up

wtf? why are u playing 25nl then^^

why not :D

because if you know about things like logic and math, and are obsessed with the game then you could probably and should probably be making more money by playing higher

that video is awesomeeeeeeeeeeee thanks didnt know it existed

boy froz was a wicked master, i was sooooo jealous of that mf.er lol.

requiem chit - where the hell did he come from? lol , 32 mins in

On May 21 2014 09:55 dnagardi wrote: sliggy i cant believe you are like that 24/7/365 there are just so many ups and downs in life. Also the boring everyday routines, where u dont feel happy nor sad, you are just there and doing stuff. There cant be constant happiness, unless you are on drugs 24/7

Where is that written? Reality is subjective. There is no "right" way to view the world.

Challenges, stressful events, even sadness itself I'm at peace with. Sadness doesn't make me happy, but I'm not happy 24/7. I am however, at peace 24/7, and that's pretty much the same thing.

Seriously though my diet is like wat.
And I've been training my mind in the art of gratitude just to exist in the first place and positivity for a long time.

Loving boring everyday routines is touched on in the Bhagavad Gita and in Steven Pressfield's The War of Art as well as 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

It's called loving the process and being entitled to your labour, not the fruits of it. It's a pretty universal concept amongst most successful people in history knowingly or not, and it allows me to accomplish all sorts of shit without inner resistance.

had the same problem 3 years ago. switched to podcasts like JRE and found that there are unlimited things in the real world to be passionate about.
we all got used to just exclusively sitting in front of the computer that we forget that. now i try and just use the internet to enhance stuff that im interested in now which is what i shouldve been doing in the first place.

k4ir0s, you are pretty damn charismatic. That video brought back good memories for me. Watched the first 20 minutes and was smiling through every minute of it!

clear your mind

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na i got no drive bros but that video is awsome

Yep the passion requires willful direction though