Conquering Life Academy

11/05/2025

10/05/2025

02/02/2025

I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.

~Leo F. Buscaglia

Book: Living, Loving & Learning https://amzn.to/4gn3ZRt

'Walk in the Woods', painting by Hugo Mühlig

28/01/2025

20/10/2024

It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little p**g.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.
So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.
Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered.

— Aldous Huxley, Island

15/10/2024

The day you manage to stay calm in front of whoever provokes you, when your silence is the right answer, the day you manage to stay calm in the face of the storm.
In the face of noise and foolish words, then you will have achieved the greatest of your successes, to dominate yourself.

It is no longer about winning or losing, being better or worse, having or not having the coveted reason,
it is not even about triumphing over others, it is about the fact that,
finally, you have reached the top of a very high mountain, and it is to conquer you, prioritize yourself and put your mental health first,
your emotional intelligence.

Observe and look around you, don't judge anymore, just observe the unhappiness, the lack of self-esteem, the burdens and pains that others must carry to live tending other people's lives, to be aware of the lives of others.

The more you love yourself, the less you will care about the projection in someone else's eye,
the more you love yourself; you will focus on improving yourself and only you.

Author Unknown

art | Ana Neima

04/05/2024

Definitely matters! 🩵🩵🩵

15/04/2024

~ Marcus Aurelius