The only way to actually get peace on the inside is by giving up this idea of problems. [77]

You can get almost anything you want out of life, as long as it’s one thing and you want it far more than anything else.

The problem with getting good at a game, especially one with big rewards, is you continue playing it long after you should have outgrown it. Survival and replication drive put us on the work treadmill. Hedonic adaptation keeps us there. The trick is knowing when to jump off and play instead.

it’s way more important to perfect your desires than to try to do something you don’t 100 percent desire. [1]

A happy person isn’t someone who’s happy all the time. It’s someone who effortlessly interprets events in such a way that they don’t lose their innate peace.

What if this life is the paradise we were promised, and we’re just squandering it?

We think of ourselves as fixed and the world as malleable, but it’s really we who are malleable and the world is largely fixed.

If you ever want to have peace in your life, you have to move beyond good and evil.

When nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and stops running into the past or future to regret something or to plan something.