Consciousness is not in the body; the body is in consciousness. And you are that consciousness.
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.
A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.
There is no path to peace; peace is the path.
People are not theirs thoughts, they think they are, and it brings them all kinds of sadness.
There's no greater purpose than service to others.
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 can live a whole life time never being awake.
Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.
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.
Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself. And when you do, you'll be free at last.
Courage is not the absence of fear...
The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates
I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.
I was in the right place at the right time.
I happened to be in the right place at the right time.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.
With some hard work I'm sure you'll be able to walk again.
You do not get what you want. You get what you negotiate.
You don't get what you don't ask for
The only laws are paradox, humor and change.
This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.
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.
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.
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