In the real world, those of us who are most productive, successful, and satisfied focus not on fixing feelings or manipulating thoughts, but on what needs to be done-and then doing it-no matter what thoughts or feelings arise.
This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.
Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.
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 simple lifestyle of few desires; that way you always have enough money.
This moment deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.
Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.
A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.
Surrender means accepting this moment, this body, and this life with open arms. Surrender involves getting out of your own way and living in accord with a higher will, expressed as the wisdom of the heart. Far more than passive acceptance, surrender uses every challenge as a means of spiritual growth and expanded awareness.
Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other.
To be authentic literally means to be your own author.
In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.
You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.
Live with a peaceful heart; cultivate a warrior's spirit.
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.
When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.
Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.
If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed up again!' Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing.
Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.
everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.
As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?
Masters of one art have mastered all because they have mastered themselves. With dominion over both mind and muscle, they demonstrate power, serenity, and spirit. They not only have talent for their sport, they have an expanded capacity for life. The experts shine in the competitive arena; the masters shine everywhere.
Remember that life develops what it demands - the toughest path creates thestrongest warrior. Pray not for a lighter load, but for strongershoulders.
A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does
Allow rather than resist what arises in the present moment-inside or out. Let it be interesting rather than good or bad.
Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.
Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.
You can change your life with a simple shift of attention. But to make that simple shift, you have to find your heart. It's the only way. Accept yourself, then transcend yourself.
Thoughts naturally arise. The point of meditation is not to banish thoughts but to make peace with them by realizing their lack of substance.
You have to lose your mind in order to regain your senses.
When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.
The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.
We discover our character through decisions under pressure.
I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them?
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
You get no more and no less than what you believe you deserve.
If you face just one opponent, and you doubt yourself, you're out-numbered
Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives.
Everything you need to know is within you. Listen. Feel. Trust the body's wisdom.
Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously.
Ultimately, fear of failure generates a vicious circle that creates what is most feared. To break this cycle, you need to make peace with failure. It isn't enough to merely tolerate it; you need to appreciate the failure and use it.
Energy follows thought; we move toward, but not beyond, what we can imagine. What we assume, expect, or believe creates and colors our experience. By expanding our deepest beliefs about what is possible, we change our experience of life.
The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf