Quotes

  • "When I don't know who I am, I serve you. When I do know who I am, I am you"
  • “Before you do anything, stop and recall the face of the poorest most helpless destitute person you have seen and ask yourself, Is what I am about to do going to help him?” – Mahatma Gandhi
  • "This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play." -Alan Watts
  • "The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."
  • "Is what I'm doing in line with who I am or who I think I am. Those are remarkably different, one brings pain with intermittent pleasure, the other joy and grace available at all moments"
  • "Comparison is the thief of joy"
  • "Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge" -Carl Jung
  • "Everyone knows about all your flaws, imperfections, failures and every time you lie. And they love you anyways."
  • “That, you see, is the most difficult thing to do, to accept oneself completely.” -Alan Watts
  • “So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.” -Alan Watts
  • "You are a trillionaire who goes home to 19 Italian models each night; don't sweat anything" - PhD Mike Israetel 

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