Quotes

"The more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be."
- Deepak Chopra (Reader's Digest, March 2009)

Detachment is not necessarily a bad thing. It all just depends on what the outcome would be. You detach yourself from yourself. You go out of that box you keep yourself in: bursting through the folds, ripping off that duct tape that seals you within. 

To be more engaged you have to be more detached means that you should not just settle with what you have now. If you can do more, then go for it. Don't limit yourself to what you know or what other people dictate. Go beyond it, prove them otherwise. Don't tell yourself that this is the only thing you are capable of. There's so much about you that you have yet to figure out and saying that you are only capable of this and that is such a sad thing to say. 

We close tend to ourselves to other possibilities. Why? I think it's because of fear. The fear that you don't know what's going to happen. The fear that you might not like what you'll find on the other side of the wall. The fear of regretting even trying. 

But really... I think one should only be afraid of not trying. Not trying means losing an opportunity to get to know yourself. We cannot see ourselves if we prefer to 'stay put'. There's no progress. No shift. 

How can you be content with being sessile? Haha

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I'm not much a of a writer, so I apologize if my posts are a bit sloppy. These are thoughts formed from quotes I've collected over the years.