All of us evade our contradictions in our efforts to believe what we wish to be true. And the closer you come to the conflicts you've created, the more you resist in seeing them.
Understand the assassin; the murderer’s mainstream political, cultural, and religious affiliations are beside the point.
If you have to take big risks to maintain your state of mind, are you playing a winning or a losing game? Maybe success is..
Ideas pave the path that lead to your goals. Ideas change as we learn but our goals should only mature, ripening over time. Consider how ideas and goals shape each other, and the flexibility you should have in each.
Love and hate can be physical, intellectual, or emotional. We need to project these, but we rarely learn how to develop them.
No single skill enables a person to prevail over chaos, but you can learn it. And when you do, you can be a role model for those around you.
Wisdom is sanity with insight. It comes with the appreciation of deeper truths and greater honesty.
Pay attention to the odd comments and expressions that seem out of place. Look for outside events that don’t seem to fit in.
Moods are more subtle than emotions and easier to control. Despite of their differences, if you move one, you’ll move the other.
Reality is what makes things happen. Even imaginary things make real things happen.
It drives me crazy that no one correctly defines conscious, unconscious, and subconscious processes.
A far-reaching conversation about my book, Operating Manual for Enlightenment, that explores the creation of our personality through intellect, emotion, and neurology.
