Instead of applying self-knowledge, self-discipline, delayed gratification and hard work, we simply consume a product.
If addictions and shadow careers are metaphors, sex is the richest one of all and the most difficult to decode. Why are we obsessed with sex? Does sex represent conquest or surrender? Are we seeking t...
I, on the other hand, believe that the source of creativity is found on the same plane of reality as Resistance.
I'm keenly aware of the Principle of Priority, which states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first. What's important...
I was thirty years old before I had an actual thought. Everything up till then was either what Buddhists call monkey-mind chatter or the reflexive regurgitation of whatever my parents or teachers said...
He looks upon sky and steppe and sees that which God has created. I look and see God Himself.
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.
For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self within, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its...
Doctors estimate that seventy to eighty percent of their business is non-health-related. People aren’t sick, they’re self-dramatizing. Sometimes the hardest part of a medical job is keeping a straight...
Discipline yourself to boil down your story/new business/philanthropic enterprise to a single page.
Dienekes says the mind is like a house with many rooms, he said. There are rooms one must not go into. To anticipate one’s death is one of those rooms. We must not allow ourselves even to think it.
Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over.Not to me. Not to them.
And they knew that when battle came, he would take his place not safely in the rear, but in the front rank, at the hottest and most perilous spot on the field.
Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition...
All genuine epiphanies seem to follow this model: their defining quality is the relinquishment of delusion. The initial fear is that one has lost something. A cherished self-conception must be given u...
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman.
Any act that derives from our higher nature instead of our lower. Any of these acts will elicit Resistance.
The drawing is also a reminder that there’s an artist within each of us, and we must encourage that artist to do the work, to make something that matters, regardless of anything else that is going on.
The Problem Is the Problem A professional does not take success or failure personally. That’s Priority Number One for us now. That our project has crashed is not a reflection of our worth as human bei...
I can procrastinate thinking about my procrastination problem. I can procrastinate dealing with my problem of procrastinating thinking about my procrastination problem.