“Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.”
― The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
― The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
“The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.”
― The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
― The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
“It's not the big things that add up in the end; it's the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.”
― The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
― The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
“I invite you to redirect awareness to the space between your hands, the space between you and the next person you see, the space between any objects in front of you now. There is so much space that there are infinite variations of this practice, and you don't have to leave Earth to experience it. One practice is to look outward into the night sky and focus on the space between things. There is something about space that slows the mind, since the mind has no way to understand it because it has no content and no container.”
― No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology Is Catching Up to Buddhism
― No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology Is Catching Up to Buddhism
“The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
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