I surround myself with authentic and loving people who share my journey of personal growth and awakening.
Now what I do is I manage that decision. And I teach them in the book how - know what decision to make and then how to manage those decisions. It's a very - it's a personal growth book [Today Matters]; that's what it is.
Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward complexity- or at the very least a place that does not make it more difficult to achieve personal growth.
Once you accept that playing the game will be uncomfortable, and you do it for a while, it will become much easier (like it does when getting fit). When you excel at it, you will find your ability to get what you want thrilling.
You'll see that excuses like "That's not easy" are of no value and that it pays to "push through it" at a pace you can handle. Like getting physically fit, the most important thing is that you keep moving forward at whatever pace you choose, recognizing the consequences of your actions.
I believe that understanding what is good is obtained by looking at the way the world works and figuring out how to operate in harmony with it to help it evolve.
I have found that by looking at what is rewarded and punished, and why, universally - i.e., in nature as well as in humanity - I have been able to learn more about what is "good" and "bad" than by listening to most people's views about good and bad.
Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
In true love, you attain freedom.
Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.
Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.
The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.
Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice.
Who does not grow, declines.
It's a simple solution. You change one thing, and suddenly you've changed everything.
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