Connecting with the people who are meant to be part of your own North Star is much more important than any aspect of business. It's the essence of happiness, the full realization of your potential for joy.

I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic amid inner turmoil, run on an upward trajectory of success and money acquisition at any emotional cost. But these are not rules.

Play until it's time to rest, then rest until it's time to play.

External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.

The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to your best destiny.