“Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation-without the pestilence of panic or fear.”

When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?

ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.

You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.

What I’ve learned most clearly from blogs is that the majority of them write about the problems from the outside for a reason—because they are missing the abilities that allow people to move to the inside.

Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.

Great times are great softeners.

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.

Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.

I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.

True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We’ve got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.

Am I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said?

Thirty years of spiritual practice has given me the realization that emotions are based on our perceptions, whether or not they are based on reality.

I don’t say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

The world is the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.

The world is the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.

I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it… If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one’s own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;