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Love Your Life
Having little, he cried.
The gods took pity on him and gave him the tiniest portion of their wealth, causing him to become rich beyond his imagination.
Thieves, schemers and false friends arrived.
Barricading himself behind strong walls, he cried.
~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche
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Here are 7 things my father taught me by example.
Do beautiful things, just for the sake of it. If you love orchids, build a greenhouse full of them in the basement. If you love the sound of French, learn to speak it fluently, even though you rarely have time to visit France. If you love organic chemistry, spend your Sundays reading “orgo” textbooks.
Find work you love and work that matters, and do it as excellently as you can.
Make a life where you’re as free as possible from the forces of dogma, orthodoxy, and bureaucracy.
— Susan Cain
My parents were as poor as the proverbial church mice when they married. The depression was in full swing at the time. Their ancestors had always been poor all the way back to Moses and beyond. But my father, who was born under the Chinese sign of the fire horse, was a force to be reckoned with. He never cared about being rich, he just wanted to support his family…
