Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.
Pursue excellence and ignore success. If you are excellent you will be successful
What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.
Use memories. Don't let memories use you.
During meditation, our breathing slows, our blood pressure and heart rate decrease, and stress hormone levels fall.
My head monk asked how it was walking. I said it hurt without shoes. And he said, 'It hurts on the foot that's down, but the one that's up feels really good - so focus on that one'.