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" Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction. "

Srikumar Rao

Goals

Bad

Direction

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" Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away. "

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Driving

Stop

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Own

You

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Srikumar Rao

Life

Will

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