Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.
Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.
Don’t just climb the ladder of success - a ladder that leads, after all, to higher and higher levels of stress and burnout - but chart a new path to success, remaking it in a way that includes not just the conventional metrics of money and power, but a third metric that includes well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving, so that the goal is not just to succeed but to thrive.
Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.
We all need to be reminded to stay connected to the essence of who we are, to take care of ourselves along the way, to reach out to others, to pause to wonder and to connect to that place from which everything is possible.
We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.
We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it
Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.
True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.
It is not enough to accept boredom, you must embrace it. It is only when you have completely embraced it that you can go beyond it.
Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings. . . The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.