Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)

The moment we accept our pain is the moment we release our suffering. Suffering is created when we offer life resistance, and what we resist most are the experiences that bring us pain.

What lies ahead? Worrying about it or creating it. Both requires a choice, one opens the door.

In search of myself, I have created myself.

The only real difficulty with becoming disciplined is when you buy into the notion that happiness comes at the price of sacrifice. The reality is this: Discipline becomes freedom when you are doing what you love.

Successfult people are two types; those who are meant to be, and those who try so hard and be. If you are not the first, be the second or try harder.

As comestibles nourish our bodies and ideas nourish our minds, so art nourishes our souls.