To give thyself a relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
“The lessons in this book are based on the belief that only our own thoughts and attitudes create our reality, and that it is only our own thoughts and attitudes that can hurt us, or heal us.”
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This pain will pass, I thought, it has to. And I must gain some control over my thoughts, realize that these things cannot affect me.
Thinking is Destiny.
The higher our thoughts, the greater our life.
Düşüncelerimiz kaderimizdir.
Düşüncelerimizin kalitesi yükseldikçe yaşam kalitemiz de yükselir.
“What makes me unique?”
That was the question I felt compelled to address. Maybe answering that would help me figure out what to say. I was sitting with Jai in a doctor’s waiting room at Johns Hopkins, awaiting yet another pathology report, and I was bouncing my thoughts off her.
“Cancer doesn’t make me unique,” I said. There was no arguing that. More than 37,000 Americans a year are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer alone.
I thought hard about how I defined myself: as a teacher, a computer scientist, a husband, a father, a son, a friend, a brother, a mentor to my students. Those were all roles I valued. But did any of those roles really set me apart?
Though I’ve always had a healthy sense of self, I knew this
lecture needed more than just bravado. I asked myself: “What do I, alone, truly have to offer?”
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