Being emotionally independent doesn’t mean you don’t care about others or don’t need them, just that you don’t rely on them to give you things you can only give yourself.

Why are we so afraid of conflict that we’re willing to live limited lives? Because of an illusion.

The only real way to accept life is to accept the events that comprise it. And the flow of events never stops. The driving force of the universe reveals itself via the events of our lives.

The human dilemma is that the important things in life are unprovable. It is precisely because faith does not require proof that it has so much power.

If you want to get close to someone, you must enter what I call the zone of engagement. This is the space where people get close enough to each other to become vulnerable. Vulnerability causes fear and fear leads to conflict. But if the conflict is handled properly, a real bond is created. Conflict becomes a kind of sense organ through which you

To the ancients, time was a gift of the gods, to be treated with awe and reverence. Elders were respected precisely because they had aged in the stream of time. Time was something higher than the individual, something not to be controlled but to be appreciated. In the sacred view of time, all good things come as part of a rhythmic process, whether

Speed Once you have determined to do something, the less time you allow to elapse until you act, the better. A failed action, done quickly, will improve your confidence more than one done after great procrastination, even if it

Life is a struggle. It’s human nature to want a reward for our pain and effort. Most of the time we are rewarded, but there is no certainty about when the reward will come or what it will be. This is the law of the universe, and it requires us to have faith in the future. But X tells us we’re special, and we needn’t be subject to the law. We have a

In the long run, life is intolerable without faith.