At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.

There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before.

If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction.

What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.

History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page in the daily press without learning the specific time, place, and name of evil. But perhaps the most pervasive evil of all rarely appears in the news. This evil, the waste of human potential, is particularly painful to recognize for it strikes our parents and children, our friends and brothers, ourselves.

To learn is to change.