“There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.” 

“Every society is three meals away from chaos” 

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. 

“A fool is wise in his eyes.”

“All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.”

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

“People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.” 

“No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.” 

Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.

Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep.

Success is the enemy of learning. It can deprive you of the time and the incentive to start over. Beginner’s mind also needs beginner’s time.

A clear mind, leads to better judgement, leads to better outcome.

If you want to be effective in business, you need a clear, calm, cool, and collected mind.

A busy mind accelerates the perceived passage of time. Buy more time by cultivating peace of mind.

I think the number one thing that clouds us from being able to see reality is that we have preconceived notions of the way it should be.

You have to see this mad creature in operation before you feel a certain distaste towards it and you start separating yourself from it. In that separation is liberation.

On the mind: It is like a monkey flinging feces, that’s running around the room, making trouble, shouting, breaking things. It’s completely uncontrollable. It’s an out-of-control mad person.

The advantage of meditation is not that you’re suddenly going to gain the superpower to control your internal state, it’s that you will recognize just how out of control your mind is.

Everything is perfect exactly the way it is. It is only in our particular minds that we’re unhappy or not happy and things are perfect or imperfect because of what we desire.

The fewer desires I can have, the more I can accept the current state of things, the less my mind is moving because the mind really exists in motion towards the future or the past.

You have to get out of that relative mindset because if you get into that relative mindset, you’re always going to hate people who do better than you, you’re always going to be jealous, you’re going to be envious of them.

What I find is that 90 percent of thoughts that I have are fear. 90 percent are fear based. The other 10 percent are probably desire based.

You want to rest your mind. You want to learn how to settle into your mind. Now, I look forward to solitary confinement. You leave me alone for a day, it will be the happiest day I’ve had in awhile. That is a superpower that I think everybody can attain.

A busy mind can often rob you of peace of mind. The peace that we seek is not peace of mind, it’s peace from mind.