An overnight success usually takes about ten years. — Anonymous
Act happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
You fear death and crave survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this ‘mind’ or ‘spirit’ or ‘soul,’ you find the escape clause in your contract with mortal...
The peaceful warrior’s greatest battles don’t lie in the external world, but within us. These inner hurdles generate most of the obstacles and difficulties we encounter in daily life. They carry great...
Lofty dreams in the distant future are a difficult burden to carry. The best goals may be those you can handle in the next week, the next day, the next hour, or the next step; create a process that yi...
Have shown you the way of the peaceful warrior, not the way to the peaceful warrior. As long as you tread the way, you are a warrior.
You focused on the goal, not on the obstacle. This is how we face our lives.
You are rich if you have enough money to satisfy all your desires. So there are two ways to be rich: You earn, inherit, borrow, beg, or steal enough money to meet all your desires; or, you cultivate a...
The world was people with minds, whirling faster than any wind, in search ofdistraction and escape from the predicament of change, the dilemma of life anddeath--seeking purpose, security, enjoyment; t...
The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God. —Meister Eckehart
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Stress happens when the mind resists what is. Most of us tend to either push or resist the river of our lives, to fight circumstance rather than make use of things as they are. Resistance creates turb...
Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness.
Process transforms any journey into a series of small steps, taken one by one, to reach any goal. Process transcends time, teaches patience, rests on a solid foundation of careful preparation, and emb...
People from all walks of life share an innate drive for meaning, direction, and purpose. This drive to understand our life purpose seems as important to our psychological growth as eating is to our bi...
Old urges continue to arise, but urges do not matter; only actions do. A warrior is as a warrior does.
May you find grace as you surrender to life. May you find happiness, as you stop seeking it. May you come to trust these laws and inherit the wisdom of the Earth. May you reconnect with the heart of n...
I closed my eyes to meditate, but realized that I was always meditating now, with my eyes wide open.
Heroes and cowards feel the same fear; heroes just act differently.
But as we mature and begin to grasp that we are often the cause of our own difficulties, we begin a process of compassionate self-observation leading to deeper self-knowledge — denial gives way to aut...