“We have to reconceptualize and understand that the act of pursuing our dreams and being our full selves is what allows us to feel alive.”

Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world.

Selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.

Aliveness doesn’t happen in silence. Aliveness doesn’t happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action.

If your guard is up, let it down. If you’ve constructed a defensive wall to protect yourself and keep all the bad guys out, don’t forget who that wall also prevents from getting in – the good guys.

As soon as you seek to inspire others, it inspires the best in you.

The more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect with and contribute to the world.

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

It is the main motivation of mankind to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction–to experience what may be called Personal Freedom.

A lot of people have the ambition, but they never ask themselves, Do I really believe I can do this?

A high performer is someone who says, ‘I want to be the best at what I’m doing.’

To stand emotionally open before the world & give of our hearts without fear of hurt or demand of reciprocity – this is the ultimate act of human courage.

To me, meditation is simply silencing or focusing the mind.

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

There’s a starting place. And that starting place for everyone is ambition. We’re all scared of that word today because they made it bad in the late ’80s. As if desire is not a good thing.

Ambition is the great fire, it’s the liberator of the unconscious person. No goals, no growth; no clarity, no change.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.

Aliveness doesn’t happen in silence. Aliveness doesn’t happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action.

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.

Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive…that is where God is.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.