Participate as fully as possibly in the world around you.

It is better to look suffering straight in the eye, acknowledge and respect it’s presence, and then get busy as soon as possible focusing on things we choose to focus on.

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.

If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average.