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Failure = feedback.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Value is subjective.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Hare & tortoise.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
More ≠ more.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Truth
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Each man believes only his experience.
Map ≠ Territory
Alan Watts
Switching costs.
Reason for being
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
The giver is the recipient.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The obstacle is the way.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Slow down.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Appreciation.
Distraction.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Realize.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Done is better than perfect.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Movement, action.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Everyone, Someone.
