Quotes I Live By

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."

"Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it."

"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything (anger, anxiety, or possessions), we cannot be free."

"The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end."

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

"There are two wolves inside each of us. One is anger, fear, lies, insecurity and ego. The other is peace, love, compassion, humility and courage. Which one wins? The one you feed."

"If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm."

"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got."

"The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer."

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

"Just show up, as you are. You don't have to be fearless, or have all the answers, or be 100% ready. Nobody is any of these things. Nobody ever was. That's enough. That's more than enough. That's everything."

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems."

"You can't manage what you refuse to measure."

"Know well the condition of your flocks."

My line and the proverb say the same thing a few thousand years apart. If you care about something, you look at it closely and often.

"Sweat more in training and you will bleed less in war."

"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."

"What you get by reaching your goals is not nearly so important as what you become by reaching them."

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."

An older saying he made his own. It is also credited to Shirley Chisholm and Marian Wright Edelman.

"Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you."

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."