There are no ordinary moments.
Life comes at us in waves. We can’t predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf.
You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.
The secret of change consists in concentrating one’s energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.
The light will disturb us when we’re comfortable, and comfort us when we’re disturbed. We turn to spirit for help when our foundations are shaking only to find out that it is spirit who is shaking them!
Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.
When in haste, rest in the present. Take a deep breath and come back to here and now.
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.
The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them?
Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.
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.
You get no more and no less than what you believe you deserve.
In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.
Faith is the recognition that Spirit works in, as and through each and all of us – through every person and every circumstance.
Wisdom is the use of knowledge.
Moderation? It’s mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It’s the devil’s dilemma. It’s neither doing nor not doing. It’s the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It’s for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation... is lukewarm tea, the devil’s own brew.
You haven’t yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior’s way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability – to the world, to life, and to the Presence you felt. All along I’ve shown you by example that a warrior’s life is not about imagined perfection or victory; it is about love. Love is a warrior’s sword; wherever it cuts, it gives life, not death.
You don’t need to control emotion,” he said. “Emotions are natural, like passing weather. Sometimes it’s fear, sometimes sorrow or anger. Emotions are not the problem. The key is to transform the energy of emotion into constructive action.
A fool is ‘happy’ when his cravings are satisfied. A warrior is happy without reason. That’s what makes happiness the ultimate discipline.
Your business is not to ‘get somewhere’ – it is to be here.