Reflection and Awareness

People who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves from learning from their mistakes. They lack the ability to take on new perspectives and empathize with others. They close themselves off to new and important information.

Have more than you show, speak less than you know.

The stronger the ego, the more distant you are from your true nature.

Someone who thinks he will live forever is far more likely to waste his days than someone who fully understands that his days are numbered.

Some people love to engage in dangerous activities because it forces them into the Now; the intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality.

Define yourself in the simplest and most ordinary ways possible. Give up your belief that you’re somehow owed something by this world.

Where ever you travel to, you come with it.

I think what most people—especially educated, pampered middle-class white people—consider “life problems” are really just side effects of not having anything more important to worry about.

You shouldn’t measure your life based on how long something takes. Instead, you should measure your life based on how far you go. Time is a distance.

The problem is no longer getting to express oneself but finding moments of solitude and silence in which one might eventually find something worth saying.