Avoid Fragmentation: Find Your Focus

All These Years I Had Been Sustained By An Illusion-happiness Through Victory- And Now That Illusion Was Burned To Ashes. I Was No More Happier, No More Fullfilled, For All My Achievements. Finally I Saw Through The Clouds I Saw That I Had Never Learned How To Enjoy Life, Only How To Achieve. All My Life I Had Been Busy Seeking Happiness, But Never Finding It Or Sustaining It.

Wake Up! If You Knew For Certain You Had A Terminal Illness--if You Had Little Time Left To Live--you Would Waste Precious Little Of It! Well, I'm Telling You...you Do Have A Terminal Illness: It's Called Birth. You Don't Have More Than A Few Years Left. No One Does! So Be Happy Now, Without Reason--or You Will Never Be At All.

If There Is A Central Theme To What I Called "a Peaceful Warrior's Approach To Living," And To The Four Purposes Of Life, It Is That There May Be Innumerable Techniques Or Methods One Can Learn (from The Eastern Spiritual Cultures And From The Western Psychological Tradition), But That Above And Beyond All These Technologies Waits The School Of Everyday Life.

You Don't Have To Control Your Thoughts; You Just Have To Stop Letting Them Control You.

Conscious Evolution Begins As We Take Responsibility For Clearing Our Own Obstructions.