Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

Education is... doing anything that changes you.

Keep practicing, even when you seem to be getting nowhere.

To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.

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.

The subtle dance of the body joins us to the world.