Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me.

The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.

Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.

But it was in this moment, lying in bed late at night, that I first realized that the voice in my head—the running commentary that had dominated my field of consciousness since I could remember—was kind of an asshole.

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.

Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)

Prepare like no other, know that there was nothing left for you to do when it's all said and done. This way a loss is just a stat. The better man will always win if he prepared like no other.