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As a physician involved in preventive medicine, I often ask my patients how they rate their current level of stress. Few ever say their stress levels are low. Most admit they’re completely stressed out. In the process of exploring why, I’ve discovered a common denominator. These people feel overloaded. Most of us are trying to do too much. And it’s a hard habit to break, because our age views multitasking as the normal way of getting things done. If we’re not juggling a dozen different commitments at once, we tend to think there’s something wrong with us.

From a medical perspective, however, the opposite is true.

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– Dan Beskind, M.D. Utne Reader (via utnereader)

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"It really troubles me when people use academic achievement as a means of measuring intelligence. You’re basically saying that somebody who is able to successfully jump through hoops and be submissive to authority is the height of intelligence, rather than looking at somebody’s capacity to think independently and creatively. I think that you can tell a lot more about somebody’s level of intelligence by sitting down with them and having a five minute conversation rather than looking at some letters on a piece of paper which, essentially, are meaningless."

"The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of success :)"