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"it do be like that sometimes" is starting to lose it's magic a little

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My mantra is just rama rama rama. Meditation with a mantra helps a lot of you put in the work beforehand.

It sounds like you're talking more about a motivational slogan, though. Mine is, "You don't have to want it, you just have to do it." It helps because it frees me from the tyranny of desire. I don't need to figure out if I'm in the mood. I don't need to trick myself into enjoying it. I can just do the thing and be done with it.

Relatedly, there's a line from a favorite book, "Somebody has to and no one else will" with a similar vibe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

In my case it’s a mantra, because I say it out loud repeatedly.