The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!

If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.

He moves not through distance, but through the ranges of satisfaction that come from hauling himself up into the air with complete and utter control; from knowing himself and knowing his airplane so well that he can come somewhere close to touching, in his own special and solitary way, that thing that is called perfection.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves?

Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our inner state of being.