Dare to Be Different: Breaking Out of Your Comfort Zone || Acharya Prashant (2022)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 So my question is whenever we take decision in life, we tend to take the easier path despite

00:09 it not being beneficial to us.

00:11 We like to stay in our comfort zone.

00:14 So how do we come out of this?

00:15 How do we push ourselves to take the difficult route?

00:20 You do that because you have been convinced that you do not deserve anything beyond a

00:27 point, right?

00:32 The high things in life, be it within or without, they all require a price to be paid.

00:46 They all require that you toil and face difficulties and suffer blows.

00:56 But why will you suffer blows if you have been convinced by the environment around you

01:03 that you anyway do not deserve to reach the top?

01:09 So you will say, the top is anyway inaccessible to me.

01:14 I need to reach some place in between.

01:17 So I will take the shortest kind of route possible and the most economical medium possible.

01:25 When you know who you really are and when you know that your potential is unlimited,

01:36 then there is self-love.

01:39 Then you do not want to deprive yourself of what you deserve.

01:43 And then you say, I will pay whatever price it takes.

01:49 I will not settle for something mediocre.

01:55 But mostly our misfortune, if I may put it that way, is that the mediocre society turns

02:12 its own kid into mediocre products.

02:17 The kid is heavily dependent on the society for information, for upbringing, for culture,

02:24 for conditioning.

02:26 All of that comes from the society.

02:29 And the society is in itself never something of excellence.

02:36 Therefore it does not cultivate values of excellence within its kids.

02:45 And the kid is made to believe that a normal kind of, as they say, run-of-mill life, that's

02:53 all that there is.

02:55 In fact if you try to think big, then you are shown down.

03:06 You are told to stay within your limits.

03:09 No?

03:10 The result is then a drop in self-love.

03:18 Because there is something within all of us.

03:21 Remember this very clearly.

03:24 That can fall in love only with absolute excellence.

03:30 With anything short of the absolute, you will find yourself short of love.

03:36 That absolute is also what has been sometimes called as the truth or liberation or even

03:46 God.

03:48 That's the reason why religions have existed since ancient times.

03:56 Because something in us just very madly loves the absolute.

04:01 It cannot live without the absolute.

04:05 In more personal terms, that absolute is your own personal possibility.

04:14 Most of us do not love ourselves.

04:17 In fact, if you look at the way we behave and take decisions, you will find that in

04:22 a hidden way we hate ourselves.

04:24 We are anti-life.

04:25 We do things, don't we, that harm us.

04:30 Somebody keeps on smoking.

04:32 He knows smoking is bad, still he keeps on smoking.

04:36 Somebody knows he must work hard and study or something, he does not do that.

04:40 What is it?

04:41 What is it?

04:43 Somebody continues to beer in an abusive relationship and never drops out.

04:51 Why do we do that?

04:54 We keep on eating all kinds of unhealthy stuff.

04:57 Why do we do that?

05:00 Why are all these things indicators of self-love?

05:03 No, they are indicators of self-hate.

05:08 Why do we hate ourselves?

05:10 Because we have refused our highest possibility to ourselves.

05:16 Whenever you will do that, you will hate yourself your entire life.

05:23 Whenever you will refuse the highest to yourself, you will become guilty in your own eyes and

05:33 you will not be able to forgive yourself for that.

05:37 And how can you love someone who can't even be pardoned?

05:42 How can you love someone who is guilty of a very bad crime?

05:48 So we don't love ourselves.

05:49 We don't love ourselves.

05:53 If you don't love yourself, why will you want to give yourself the best?

06:01 Are we together on this?

06:03 If you don't love yourself, why will you want to give yourself the best?

06:06 You will settle for anything normal, usual, mediocre.

06:13 You will say, but you know, this is the way the world is.

06:16 I am an average bloke like everybody else.

06:21 You can find some kind of false peace in calling yourself an average person.

06:31 But that will be an inner death.

06:37 Inwardly you know what is it we all live for?

06:40 We live for excellence.

06:42 We live for the absolute.

06:45 That's what the human birth is for, to attain the absolute.

06:53 Instead if you have convinced yourself to stay mediocre within, then it's death.

07:00 Because life is for the highest.

07:04 Anything lower than highest, life is the same as death.

07:09 Are you getting it?

07:15 So choose your company with great discretion.

07:20 Do not be around people who show you down.

07:24 Be very clear, be with people who ruthlessly prod you on towards betterment.

07:34 Who mercilessly bring out your shortcomings.

07:39 And who never allow you to believe for a second that you are destined to live a mediocre life.

07:47 They'll say because you must be excellent, therefore all your mistakes must be exposed.

07:58 That's the kind of people and books and environment you should choose.

08:06 Inwardly whenever you find thoughts of weaknesses dominating you, push away those thoughts.

08:14 Do not allow anybody to dominate you, including your own thoughts.

08:20 If even your own judgement is that you are a weakling, reject that judgement.

08:30 You might be beaten and when you are beaten, accept that with honesty and courage.

08:38 But if somebody tells you that it is your destiny to remain beaten and fallen, push

08:43 that person away.

08:44 Yes, I have fallen and I won't hide the fact that I have fallen.

08:50 I am courageous enough to boldly admit that I have fallen and it's such a bad display

08:56 on my part.

08:57 Surely I am cultivating some nonsense within, the reflection of which is this fall.

09:04 But if you are telling me that I must limit my life itself, that I must give up on the

09:18 potential and the possibilities that life has to offer, then sorry, sorry, sorry.

09:26 If I have to live in mediocrity, then I'll better not live.

09:32 If I have to live in bondages, then life is not worth it.

09:39 Getting it?

09:40 See, it must be confusing because I am saying both the things.

09:43 On one hand I say, you have to be very honest about your mistakes.

09:50 You must know that your mistakes reveal the fact of yourself.

09:56 So they can't even be called as mistakes.

09:58 On one hand, I am saying that you must really know how ugly your face has become and how

10:06 weak your inner self has become.

10:08 On one hand I am saying that.

10:10 That our fact is weakness.

10:13 On the other hand, I am saying our potential is greatness.

10:18 Both these have to be remembered at the same time.

10:21 If you remember only one of these, then there will be a problem.

10:24 Remember both of these.

10:25 Yes, I am down and out at this moment and I'll honestly admit that.

10:31 But equally I'll always remember that each human being is born for greatness.

10:38 Greatness is my destiny.

10:40 Never compromise on that greatness, never compromise on the destiny you are born for.

10:49 Remember this always.

10:54 Does that make sense?

10:56 [Music]

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