Pedram Shojai > Quotes

“Learning to remain nonreactive is the name of the game. Does this mean living without passion? Absolutely not. Live, love, laugh, and learn—just don’t be a sucker for drama. Live your life with enthusiasm and purpose, and don’t be a pawn in someone else’s vision for you. You drive. Better yet, let your Higher Self drive, and you relax.”
― Pedram Shojai, The Urban Monk: Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace

“Obstacles are the scary things we see when we take our eyes off our goal.” Learn”
― Pedram Shojai, The Urban Monk: Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace

“Her sense of self is built on a strong inner foundation. She’s cultivated her breath and tapped into her connection with the entire Universe. What accolades other people may give her do not matter. She is reinforced by life and nature as her exuberance and enthusiasm radiate from within.”
― Pedram Shojai, The Urban Monk: Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace

“Where you invest your life’s energy will determine what your life will look like.”
― Pedram Shojai, Focus: Bringing Time, Energy, and Money into Flow

“Our consciousness has access to things all over the timeline and often takes us out of the present moment. It pulls us into some “other time” where we can spend much of our energy. It can pull us away from “now” and keep us fixated on a traumatic event “then” or an anticipated event “soon.” In fact, it seems that we’ve become quite adept at spending much of our actual time in “other time.” The key to being liberated from time is to understand this great Hermetic axiom: “All the Power that ever was or will be is here now.” The”
― Pedram Shojai, The Urban Monk: Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace

“George Bernard Shaw said, “Every fool can fast, but only the wise man knows how to break a fast.”
― Pedram Shojai, The Urban Monk: Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) attributes stress as the cause of 90 percent of chronic disease.”
― Pedram Shojai, The Urban Monk: Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace

“Money is tied to survival. If you’ve got it, you’re worried about losing it. And no matter what you have, there’s never enough. An”
― Pedram Shojai, The Urban Monk: Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace

“There’s a trillion-dollar healthcare industry that makes money off of chronic diseases that stem from poor lifestyle and uncontrolled stress. Causing”
― Pedram Shojai, The Urban Monk: Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace

“Are we doing something special as we’re living life, or are we just passing time?”
― Pedram Shojai, Focus: Bringing Time, Energy, and Money into Flow

“When we align our goals with our plans, we plug in our focus and willpower to make it work.”
― Pedram Shojai, The Art of Stopping Time: Practical Mindfulness for Busy People

“An Urban Monk doesn’t worry about status; therefore, she is free. Her”
― Pedram Shojai, The Urban Monk: Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace

“We vote with our time, and by not putting our priorities into our calendars, we are effectively saying to the Universe that we don't really care about them.”
― Pedram Shojai, The Urban Monk: Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace

“Energy management is the new time management. When you learn to work with your natural rhythms instead of against them, everything becomes possible.”
― Pedram Shojai, Focus: Bringing Time, Energy and Money into Flow

“When we don’t have a positive connection with the flow of time, we lack purpose. We wander around, aimlessly squandering the time we have, only to regret it later. We get so lost in time that we can’t even stop to look at the future and think through the impact of decisions today.”
― Pedram Shojai, The Art of Stopping Time: Practical Mindfulness for Busy People

“The path to transformation begins with understanding that you already possess everything you need. The ancient masters knew this secret—now it's time for you to remember.”
― Pedram Shojai, Inner Alchemy: The Urban Monk's Guide to Happiness, Health, and Vitality

“Clearing physical space has the added bonus of clearing mental space. This is liberating for the mind. It gives us the spaciousness we’ve been looking for.”
― Pedram Shojai, The Art of Stopping Time: Practical Mindfulness for Busy People

“Time prosperity isn't about having more hours in your day—it's about expanding your relationship with time itself.”
― Pedram Shojai, The Art of Stopping Time: Practical Mindfulness for Busy People

“But we can’t stay in hyperdrive for long, and if we don’t learn how to turn it off, we can get burned out or burned up.”
― Pedram Shojai, The Art of Stopping Time: Practical Mindfulness for Busy People