The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.