Aubrey Marcus Quotes Page 2

“There are three ways to achieve gratitude – perhaps the most beautiful of all emotions.

1) Scarcity and Expiration.
When you know you have a limited amount of time, with a person, with a place, with your life it’s easier to be grateful and present for those moments.
2) Novelty and Surprise.
When something is new and different, or exceeds your expectations in any way, it is easier to be grateful and present. I think the psychedelic state is so contextually rich that it creates novelty even in the mundane of a quiet room.
3) Choice.
Gratitude and presence can be a practice. It can be something you decide to do, with your whole heart, your emotions, and your imagination. Like working out, meditating, or discipline, it’s something you train. And I have a lot of training to do because I’ve been relying heavily on 1) and 2).”

“Trying to capture life with your phone is like filling up a cup in the river, showing it to your friend, and saying 'See, here is the river'.”

“When you are improving yourself, you are not just doing it for you, you are doing it so that you can be the living proof to others of what is possible. You can lead by example. Why is it that when someone first does a new trick on a skateboard or a motocross bike that was previously believed to ‘never be possible’, then suddenly a year later three more people can do the same trick? It’s because when you do it, other people believe they can do it too.”

“Who is in control of your mind? You are.”

“Why do we wait until New Years for a resolution? Why do we start fresh on Monday with a new set of goals? Why are we either binging or dieting? We have in our mind this idea that we are like computer code: number 1, or a zero. That’s all nonsense. It’s good to pour out half your beer when you know you’ve had enough. It’s good when you leave half of the chocolate cake on the plate. It’s good when you do 20 pushups and 20 air squats on a day that you didn’t make it to the gym. We do not live in a world of absolutes, and trying to hold ourselves to absolute standards just patterns us for inevitable failure.”

“You are going to die. No matter what you do, this fact is inevitable. But this thought doesn’t have to be negative. Death is the ultimate form of resistance in the human experience. And like all resistance, you have the choice as to whether it crushes your spirit or makes you stronger.”

“Your nervous system is your hardware, and your conscious mind is like software.”

“Your worth isn’t dependent on any of your attributes and that you don’t need anything external to validate you. You learn that you are worthy of love, just because you are alive.”

“Don’t feel like there’s only one way. Be open to explore. Always be looking and asking, ‘Is this serving me in the best way possible?’ and, ‘What am I learning from this?'”

“I’m just someone who’s trying to learn a little bit more today that will make me a little bit better tomorrow. I’m on the path of learning, exploring, and asking questions.”

“I’ve done every different psychedelic, every different sweat lodge, a ton of different initiation rituals and grueling workouts, and founded companies. There’s nothing that comes even close to the challenge of being in an open relationship.”

“If I see something that I’m afraid of I head towards it, not away from it.”

“If you have a genuine community and many people you can talk to about anything, it’s going to help so much.”

“If you run from your discomfort, it’s going to chase you down like a grizzly bear. You know what a grizzly bear does when it catches you? It starts to eat you while you’re alive, *sshole first.”

“In a healthy relationship, instead of serving someone from your cup, you actually serve them from the overflow that fills the saucer around the cup. That way, no one else is ever drinking from your own cup of love, resources, or energy.”

“Isn’t it interesting that when asked who we are, we identify with our jobs and past accomplishments?”

“Life is too hard to do all by yourself.”

“Our purpose here is to wake up to the truth of who we are, and all of the truth around us. If we’re all here to wake up to that truth, and we’re shielding that truth from somebody, we’re doing them a great disservice.”

“Stop f*cking eating sugar. Get some sleep. Move throughout the day. Get some sunlight. Drink some saltwater and hydrate. Take care of your sh*t. Get the basics down.”

“Take care of yourself. Be overflowing with your own abundance of energy, love, time, resources, and everything else to actually be of real service to anybody or the rest of the world. It begins with yourself.”

“The persona is inapplicable of receiving love. It can receive praise, but you’re not going to feel it because it’s not you.”

“The sooner you realize external achievements will never make you happy, the better.”

“These are the pillars of a good life. Take care of the body. Understand the mind, how to open it up, and look into your shadow. Align yourself to love in a relationship that’s in best accord with yourself. Then, cultivate and build a community.”

“Truth is love. Telling the truth and loving everyone is the same thing. You can’t love someone without telling them the truth.”

“We’re here on Earth to really experience everything – to eat the food, to try the drinks, to try the drugs. Not all the drugs, but some of them at least. Do the things; don’t abuse them or go wild, but experience all the things. Go visit the beautiful places. Go take a dip in a cold waterfall, feel rainfall on your face, head to a desert, climb a snowy mountain, surf, play, dance, and make love. Do all the things we were meant to do.”

“A healthy body can come in all shapes and sizes, but it does have a certain set of characteristics:
- the joints are mobile and fluid;
- the muscles are strong and flexible enough to perform a variety of tasks;
- the frame is capable of carrying weight, a little more, or a little less, without unnecessary strain;
- the tissue is healthy and supple.

If you meet all or most of those criteria, you are what is called, in evolutionary terms, 'fit', and in Aubrey Marcus terms, 'sexy AF'. I don't care about your BMI or whether you look like an Instagram model. Healthy is sexy.”

“As humans we desire to apply our force — our work — to the maximum effect possible. Our mission is what we want that force to accomplish. While the meaning of life might be complicated, your mission in life should not be complicated. What are you, in this lifetime, on this planet, in this body, here to do? What do you want more than anything else?”

“Before you eat, prepare the very best bite on your fork. Take a moment to look deeply at all the food on your plate. Think about where it came from (a reinforcement to eat food sourced in a healthy manner). Think about the energy required to grow that food – the nutrients, the sunlight, the other plants and animals ingested by your food. Take time to bring yourself to a state of mindfulness and reduced stress. Think about how that energy will translate to energy in your own body and what you are going to need that energy for (a reminder about portion control and that you're about to bone down!).

As you put the bite in your mouth, if the food is lacking in any of these categories, forgive it. You never want to think that what you're about to eat is poison, or bad for you, or will ruin your diet. Instead, tell your body that what it is about to eat is nourishment. Then look at the food, smell the food, and savor it. When you taste it, chew it until there is nothing left, and your tastebuds have flirted with every ingredient in this orgy of flavor. That should be your first bite, and how you say grace: it's a piece of mindfulness, a nutrition reinforcer, and a way through the placebo to ensure that your food will be digested and absorbed optimally.”

“Breakfast is not mandatory, and in fact you might just be better off without it altogether.”

“Breath is the rudder of life. We have the choice to either take over conscious control or let ourselves wander aimlessly. If you are going to own the day, you must own your breath.”