Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.
We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
It’s not ‘What do I want to do?’, it’s ‘What kind of life do I want to have?’
If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.’
Have you notices that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?
We forget we’re mostly water till the rain falls and every atom in our body starts to go home.
Just change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don’t replay the bad, scary movie.
Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves.
Imagine how our culture, how our lives, will change when we begin valuing go-givers as much as we value go-getters.
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.
Treat people like family, and they will be loyal and give their all.
We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we’re actually writing it all the time, every day.
Never let life’s Iagos—flatterers, dissemblers—onto your train.
Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say “so what.” That’s one of my favorite things to say. —ANDY WARHOL
And yet we spend so much time and effort and energy on those résumé entries—entries that lose all significance as soon as our heart stops beating.
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. —WU MEN
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. —WILLIAM JAMES
Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.
Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?
Making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive.
We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what’s left is who we truly are.
What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace. —PAULO COELHO
The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.
Too many of us leave our lives—and, in fact, our souls—behind when we go to work.
The quest for knowledge may be pursued at higher speeds with smarter tools today, but wisdom is found no more readily than it was three thousand years ago in the court of King Solomon.
Being connected in a shallow way to the entire world can prevent us from being deeply connected to those closest to us—including ourselves.
Countless things in our daily lives can awaken the almost constant state of wonder we knew as children. But sometimes to see them we must look through a different set of eyes.
A study funded by the National Institutes of Health showed a 23 percent decrease in mortality in people who meditated versus those who did not,
Taoist philosophy, “Rest is prior to motion and stillness prior to action.
In December 2013, a tourist in Melbourne fell off a pier and plunged into the sea while checking Facebook on her phone. She still had it in her hand when she was rescued.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. —RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Give me a place to stand, and I will move the world.
Music can reach those places where words alone can’t go.
In our daily lives, moving from struggle to grace requires practice and commitment.
 search is achieving its purpose. )
Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.
As you set out for Ithaka, hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery.
By helping us keep the world in perspective, sleep gives us a chance to refocus on the essence of who we are. And in that place of connection, it is easier for the fears and concerns of the world to drop away.
We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes–understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.
