Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.

...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because scientists become attached to the old perspective earlier in their careers.

A fully functioning employee with a healthy self-image is money in the bank.

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts.