You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.
Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
Learning is finding out what you already know.
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.
One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
I know there's a principle of spirit. It works without space-time. I am subject to that principle, in spirit and in belief of body. Learn how spirit works, a few simple rules, living a perfect spiritual life is easy.
Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!
Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!