The impediment to action advances action.
What stands in the way becomes the way.
Date Recorded: 2/20/2024
Not to assume it's impossible because you find it hard. But to recognize that if it's humanly possible, you can do it too.
Date Recorded: 3/14/2024
I do what is mine to do; the rest doesn’t disturb me.
Date Recorded: 3/21/2024
When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one’s energy, that one’s modesty, another’s generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we’re practically showered with them.
It’s good to keep this in mind.
Date Recorded: 5/9/2024
You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you. Things can’t shape our decisions by themselves.
Date Recorded: 5/14/2024
It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.
Date Recorded: 6/4/2024
To live life in peace, immune to all compulsion. Let them scream whatever they want. ...How would any of that stop you from keeping your mind calm — reliably sizing up what’s around you — and ready to make good use of whatever happens?
Date Recorded: 8/1/2024