Monday, March 09, 2009

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari - The Highlights

It’s been about a year I read this book. Influential. I make little summary while reading and that helps to gain a quick idea about the pages read in the past. i did the same with this book. Today i found that page in one of my old files and i felt that this should be digitally saved not to repeat the same mistake.

- Practice the ‘Heart of the Rose’ at same time, same way every day (umm i forgot what heart of rose means. some kind of yoga may be. have to go through the book once again. see that’s why summary is useful)
- Garden -> Mind -> Filled with dellightful treasure
- Lighthouse -> Power of goals and the imp. of discovering your calling in life
- Kaizen: constant & never ending improvement
- The only limit to your life are those that you set yourself.
- Practice:
- Rest Break: Healing power of silence, come to know who you really are
- Physical: yoga
- Deep breathing: not just to survive, but to thrive
- Vegetarian food

- Be the student of life: You can much utilize from the classroom of existence
- Read for at least 30 mins daily
- Every evening after a full day of productive work, retire to a silent corner of your home and reflect on your day
- The only way to improve tomorrow is to know what you did wrong today
- Rise with the sun
- nothing to extremes, everything in moderations
- If you do anything for 21 days in a row, it will become a habit
- Live eveyday as if it was your last day
- Listen to music; it is a solace at all times
- The ritual of spoken word: mantra; man (maind) tra (freeing)
- You sow a thought, you reap an action. Reap an action, you sow a habit. sow a habit, you reap a character. Sow a character, you reap your destiny.
- Thought -> Action -> Habit -> Characters -> Destiny
- The power of simplicity
- One must never live in the thick of the thins
- Unless you reduce your need, you’ll never be fulfilled
- When the student is ready, the teacher will appear
- Life gives you what you ask of it, it’s always listening
- When you control your thoughts, you control you mind. When you control your mind, you control your life
- sotori: constant awakening
- I am more that i appear to be, all the world’s strength and power rests inside me
- Live with discipline, will power
- Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage
- Enlightened people are power driven
- Don’t let other steal your time (this i must practice very often)
- Be ruthless with your time. Learn to say ‘No’
- The quality of your life will come down to the quality of your contribution
- Cultivate richer relationships
- Happiness is a journey, not a destination
- Embrace the present

I can immediately feel the positive vives just by going through it. Good words can make good life.

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