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The struggle is great, the task divine—to gain mastery, freedom, happiness, and tranquility. —EPICTETUS
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“Thought will not work except in silence,” Thomas Carlyle said. If we want to think better, we need to seize these moments of quiet. If we want more revelations—more insights or breakthroughs or new, big ideas—we have to create more room for them. We have to step away from the comfort of noisy distractions and stimulations. We have to start listening.”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
“So much of the distress we feel comes from reacting instinctually instead of acting with conscientious deliberation.”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
“The purpose of ritual isn’t to win the gods over to our side (though that can’t hurt!). It’s to settle our bodies (and our minds) down when Fortune is our opponent on the other side of the net.”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
“Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. —COLIN POWELL”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
“The best insights on enough come to us from the East. “When you realize there is nothing lacking,” Lao Tzu says, “the whole world belongs to you.” The verse in The Daodejing: The greatest misfortune is to not know contentment. The word calamity is the desire to acquire. And so those who know the contentment of contentment are always content.”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
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