Another revealing exercise is visualization.

Successful people have good habits; unsuccessful people have losery habits.

What you focus on you create more of

If you wonder why you choose to worship other gods rather than wholeheartedly devote yourself to the Lord you love, examine the thought and desires that captivate your heart. That's where you'll fin the answer to every sin and failure in your life. Don't be deceived into thinking that you need to develop more willpower. We need to develop godly thoughts and desires.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.

If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions.

For determining the rational and the irrational, we employ not only our estimates of the value of external things, but also the criterion of that which is in keeping with one's own character.

Philosophy's purpose is to illuminate the ways our soul has been infected by unsound beliefs, untrained tumultuous desires, and dubious life choices and preferences that are unworthy of us. Self-scrutiny applied with kindness is the main antidote.

Care for your body as needed, but put your main energies and efforts into cultivating your mind.

impassivity and a good flow of life are not attained except through unerring desire and unfailing avoidance