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You don't get what you don't ask for
Oct 1, 2025
With some hard work I'm sure you'll be able to walk again.
My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.
Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself. And when you do, you'll be free at last.
There is no path to peace; peace is the path.
Consciousness is not in the body; the body is in consciousness. And you are that consciousness.
To be authentic literally means to be your own author.
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.
Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.
Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.
Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.
everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.
Where are you? Here What time is it? Now What are you? This moment.
I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.
The only laws are paradox, humor and change.
A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does
The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates
you can live a whole life time never being awake.
You do not get what you want. You get what you negotiate.
You don't get what you want. You get what you are.
This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.
. . . Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.
Those that are the hardest to love, need it the most.
There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.
There's no greater purpose than service to others.
The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.
Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.
Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.
The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.
Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.
As a peaceful warrior, I would choose when, where and how I would behave. With that commitment, I began to live the life of a warrior.
When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's way.
Peaceful warriors have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water clears. They remain unmoving until the right time, so the right action arises by itself. They do not seek fulfillment, but wait with open arms to welcome all things.
Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.
My parents were only one part of my lineage. I also met a number of mentors, one of whom I nicknamed "Socrates" after the ancient Greek, and wrote about in my first book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. That book emerged in 1980, as a result of travels around the world and decades of preparation, eventually leading to 15 other books written over the years, culminating in my newest offering, The Four Purposes of Life.
People are not theirs thoughts, they think they are, and it brings them all kinds of sadness.
I happened to be in the right place at the right time.
I was in the right place at the right time.
Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
You haven't yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior's way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability--to the world, to life, and to the Presence you felt. All along I've shown you by example that a warrior's life is not about imagined perfection or victory; it is about love. Love is a warrior's sword; wherever it cuts, it gives life, not death.
A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.
Courage is not the absence of fear...
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
If there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of Life, it is that there may be innumerable techniques or methods one can learn (from the Eastern spiritual cultures and from the Western psychological tradition), but that above and beyond all these technologies waits the school of everyday life.
Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.