Living With Intent | Mallika Chopra | TEDxSanDiego 

How do you do it?

I heard that too. I see this talk is marked as published even before 2017. My guess is this talk happened more recently than 2017 ... maybe the end of 2019 her hopes for 2020 are prescient. We’re learning a lot from these growing pains the planet is experiencing & this time of isolation opens the door for an opportunity not be more still, quiet, & contemplative 🙏♥️🍃

Oops ... that was a typo! I meant “opens the door for an opportunity *to* be more still”

God was exactly what came as my answer... wow...

Take a walk, a long one, and think about it. Don't allow yourself to answer "I don't know," force yourself to answer it even if the answer makes no sense at all. Keep at it giving yourself multiples of answers. Keep pondering - thinking deeply - about it. Don't stop until you get an answer that satisfies you.

Daruna who do you want to be? Create yourself to be who you want to be

It's a rather meaningless question to ask yourself.....navel gazing is a waste of time, better to look up at the world around you.

Lisa, she said “ my hope, my vision for 2020...” 🌺🌺

First off, I have to say I hate the RU-vid comment section - not because of the comments, but because if you click on reply to another comment after writing a first one (without clicking "Reply") it just erases your comment. It should just pop up a dialog and ask if you want to post the previous reply, not erase it! Grrr! Now, your comment shows your own ignorance. You apparently don't know meditation as well as you think you do. She has been meditating for probably 20 years or more. She comes from a family that has taught its children meditation for at least two generations and perhaps for centuries or millennia. Who are you to judge her? She didn't come up with those questions on her own, her father taught her to ask them of herself *after* meditation. And the last line? It shows your own complete ignorance. Why would anyone ask these questions unless they were "clueless?" That's irrational and illogical. To ask questions you already know the answer to is both redundant and pointless unless you are a teacher and your students don't know the answer to the questions. Beyond that, it is necessary to ask these questions of yourself or you will achieve nothing in your life. You won't ever be truly familiar with yourself and you won't have much of a relationship with anyone else either. These questions are necessary to find your own purpose and to give yourself motivation in everything you do, including in meditation. And if you are thinking of the concept of "letting go of ego," then you obviously don't understand what it is to "let go." No matter how hard you try you can never eliminate your "self." Your "self" isn't the same thing as your ego anyway. Having a self does not preclude you being able to experience "enlightenment." So unless you want to become a living mummy like the monk that some guy tried to sell on the Mongolian black market, these questions are necessary if you want to achieve anything with your life. Yes, there was a guy that was arrested for stealing the "remains" of a monk that was said to be in a state of concentration - a specialized form of meditation - and trying to sell the mummified body on the black market. Google it.