The only map of your right life is written on your soul at its most peaceful, and the only sure compass is your heart at its most open.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world.

The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort to change an unsatisfying situation. Nope. Complaining lets off pressure so that we neither explode with frustration nor feel compelled to take the often risky steps of openly opposing a difficult person or situation. Keeping emotional pressure tolerably low doesn't change problematic circumstances but rather perpetuates them.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.