Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.

Here and now...breathe and relax...in battle and in life

Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.

Ultimately, fear of failure generates a vicious circle that creates what is most feared. To break this cycle, you need to make peace with failure. It isn't enough to merely tolerate it; you need to appreciate the failure and use it.

You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.

Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

If there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of Life, it is that there may be innumerable techniques or methods one can learn (from the Eastern spiritual cultures and from the Western psychological tradition), but that above and beyond all these technologies waits the school of everyday life.