You are a "choosing organism." You are constantly making choices, one way or the other. Every choice you make is a statement about your true values and priorities. At each moment, you choose what is more important or of higher value to you over what is less important or of lesser value.

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue.

Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't

he said, he didn't know what to do. He couldn't move forward. He thought, they should move on. He started crying. Not for himdelf, for her. He'd rescued her from her lousy life, and now he was throwing her back. He felt like a shit for doing it, for things having to be that way, for not being able to gove her what she wanted. The last thing he wanted was to hurt her. The only part that wasn't in the manual, was her response: She started to laugh. Oh, give me a break, she said.

I could live here forever. Maybe even become real New Yorker someday.

I don't know where I'm going, but I know I'm going somewhere.

And it is here that we are, in some pain and with no guarantees, working out our destiny.

We are privileged to live in, and if we are lucky to influence, one of the most critical epochs in the history of the human species.

You know, son, God will give you what you choose. And if you think about that real hard, it'll scare you to death. I don't think you're ready to suffer the consequences of those choices.

If you are lost in a forest at night, you can follow the North Star to find your way out. You follow the North Star, but your goal is to get back home; it's not to arrive at the North Star.

Often we either don't plan at all, or we get caught up in obsessive planning because we fear the future and its uncertainty.

With mindful walking, our steps are no longer a means to arrive at an end.