Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts.
Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.
Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love – you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.
Be present as the watcher of your mind – of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.
The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.
Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
It’s the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better.
If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.
The most important question to ask on the job is not ‘What am I getting?’ The most important question to ask on the job is ‘What am I becoming?’
I used to say, “I sure hope things will change.” Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change.
The first person you lead is you.
To grow yourself, you must know yourself.
Make personal growth a daily priority.
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.