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

Acharya Prashant

Video Information: 12.09.22 - RVCE, Bangalore   Context:  ~ How to come out of our comfort zone?  ~ How to push ourselves to take the difficult road?  ~ Why are we anti-life that harms us?  ~ How do I know my potential?  ~ How to attain the highest possibility in life?  ~ Why can't we give up bad habits even when we are aware of them?  ~ How does loving yourself help in making the right decisions?   Music Credits: Milind Date  ~~~~~  #acharyaprashant #selflove #comfortzone

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

00:15it not being beneficial to us. We like to stay in our comfort zone. So how do we come

00:20out of this? How do we push ourselves to take the difficult route?

00:26You do that because you have been convinced that you do not deserve anything beyond a

00:33point. Right? The high things in life, be it within or without, they all require a price

00:47to be paid. They all require that you toil and face difficulties and suffer blows. But

01:02why will you suffer blows if you have been convinced by the environment around you that

01:09you anyway do not deserve to reach the top? So you will say, the top is anyway inaccessible

01:18to me. I need to reach some place in between. So I will take the shortest kind of route

01:25possible and the most economical medium possible. When you know who you really are and when

01:36you know that your potential is unlimited, then there is self-love. Then you do not

01:45want to deprive yourself of what you deserve. And then you say, I will pay whatever price

01:52it takes. I will not settle for something mediocre. But mostly our misfortune, if I

02:06may put it that way, is that the mediocre society turns its own kid into mediocre products.

02:22Right? The kid is heavily dependent on the society. For information, for upbringing,

02:30for culture, for conditioning, all of that comes from the society. And the society is

02:37in itself never something of excellence. Therefore it does not cultivate values of excellence

02:46within its kids. And the kid is made to believe that a normal kind of, as they say, run-of-mill

02:57life, that's all that there is. In fact, if you try to think big, then you are shown down.

03:12You are told to stay within your limits. No? The result is then a drop in self-love.

03:24Because there is something within all of us, remember this very clearly, that can fall

03:30in love only with absolute excellence. With anything short of the absolute, you will find

03:39yourself short of love. That absolute is also what has been sometimes called as the

03:49truth or liberation or even God. That's the reason why religions have existed since ancient

04:00times. Because something in us just very madly loves the absolute. It cannot live without

04:08the absolute. In more personal terms, that absolute is your own personal possibility.

04:17Most of us do not love ourselves. In fact, if you look at the way we behave and take

04:25decisions, you will find that in a hidden way we hate ourselves. We are anti-life. We do things,

04:33that harm us. Somebody keeps on smoking. He knows smoking is bad, still he keeps on smoking.

04:40Somebody knows he must work hard and study or something, he does not do that. What is it?

04:46What is it? Somebody continues to beer in an abusive relationship and never drops out.

04:55Why do we do that? We keep on eating all kinds of unhealthy stuff. Why do we do that? Are all

05:07these things indicators of self-love? No, they are indicators of self-hate. Why do we hate ourselves?

05:14Because we have refused our highest possibility to ourselves. Whenever you will do that,

05:23you will hate yourself your entire life. Whenever you will refuse the highest to

05:33yourself, you will become guilty in your own eyes and you will not be able to forgive yourself for

05:40that. And how can you love someone who can't even be pardoned? How can you love someone who is

05:49guilty of a very bad crime? So we don't love ourselves. We don't love ourselves. If you don't

06:00love yourself, why will you want to give yourself the best? Are we together on this? If you don't

06:09love yourself, why will you want to give yourself the best? You will settle for anything normal,

06:17usual, mediocre. You will say, but you know, this is the way the world is. I am an average

06:23bloke like everybody else. You can find some kind of false peace in calling yourself an average

06:34person. But that will be an inner death. Inwardly, you know what is it we all live for? We live

06:47for excellence. We live for the absolute. That's what the human birth is for, to attain the absolute.

06:54Instead, if you have convinced yourself to stay mediocre within, then it's death. Because life

07:06is for the highest. Anything lower than highest, life is the same as death. Are you getting it?

07:19So choose your company with great discretion. Do not be around people who show you down. Be

07:30very clear. Be with people who ruthlessly prod you on towards betterment, who mercilessly bring

07:41out your shortcomings, and who never allow you to believe for a second that you are destined to live

07:51a mediocre life. They'll say because you must be excellent, therefore all your mistakes must be

08:00exposed. That's the kind of people and books and environment you should choose. Inwardly, whenever

08:13you find thoughts of weaknesses dominating you, push away those thoughts. Do not allow anybody to

08:22dominate you, including your own thoughts. If even your own judgment is that you are a weakling,

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

08:42courage. But if somebody tells you that it is your destiny to remain beaten and fallen, push that

08:49person away. Yes, I have fallen and I won't hide the fact that I have fallen. I am courageous enough

08:57to boldly admit that I have fallen and it's such a bad display on my part. Surely I am cultivating

09:04some nonsense within, the reflection of which is this fall. But if you are telling me that I must

09:14limit my life itself, that I must give up on the potential and the possibilities that life has to

09:27offer, then sorry, sorry, sorry. If I have to live in mediocrity, then I'll better not live. If I have

09:38to live in bondages, then life is not worth it. Getting it? See, it must be confusing because I am

09:48saying both the things. On one hand, I say you have to be very honest about your mistakes. You

09:56must know that your mistakes reveal the fact of yourself. So, they can't even be called as

10:02mistakes. On one hand, I am saying that you must really know how ugly your face has become and how

10:12weak your inner self has become. On one hand, I am saying that. That our fact is weakness. On the

10:19other hand, I am saying our potential is greatness. Both these have to be remembered at the same time.

10:26If you remember only one of these, then there will be a problem. Remember both of these. Yes, I am

10:31down and out at this moment and I'll honestly admit that. But equally, I'll always remember

10:38that each human being is born for greatness. Greatness is my destiny. Never compromise on

10:47that greatness. Never compromise on the destiny you are born for. Remember this always. Does

11:00that make sense?

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