Search Inside Yourself: Increase Productivity, Creativity and Happiness [ePub edition]

In that sense, I think of self-confidence as the ability to be as big as Mount Fuji and as small as an insignificant grain of sand at the same time.

It is like sunlight focused with a lens shining intensely on a single point.

Emotional resilience:

You get to speak uninterrupted for 3 minutes.

clarity and vividness of attention.

at a desired intensity and duration.

using joy as an object of meditation,

try to take five breaths before reacting. The reason to do this is to practice creating space between stimulus and reaction.

Our attention is the most valuable gift we can give to others. When we give our full attention to somebody, for that moment, the only thing in the world that we care about is that person, nothing else matters because nothing else is strong within our field of consciousness.

gently but firmly bring the mind back.