A response arises from a calm mind and sensitive awareness. The intent of responsive action is to produce what is needed and appropriate. A reaction arises from automatic impulses that tend to be motivated by such activities as fear, desire, resistance, vulnerability, anger, or other knee-jerk self-protective actions. Reactions are an attempt to

The difference between a student and a master is, the master has failed more times than the student has tried. MAC DUKE

Beyond changing the mind, we must also learn to control it. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said to my apprentices “control your mind.” Without a certain mastery of mind, mastering anything else isn’t going to happen. To be clear, I am not inviting you to make this into an ideal of perfection. We are talking about mastering a field, not all of

your experience and what is occurring aren’t necessarily the same thing, and in order to be effective you must relate to what’s actually occurring.

Never make the strategy master over the objective. The strategy should always serve the objective, and change the moment it doesn’t.

Find a way to ground each point in your field and your experience, or at least realistically imagine how each point applies to specifics in your field.

Why Should You Pursue Mastery? Simply pursuing mastery changes and improves your life—creating a deeper satisfaction in your living and much higher self-esteem—even before any attainment. After attainment, it provides a new and powerful experience rarely achieved.

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all. MICHELANGELO

Creatively question your perceptions, and stay open to what may be unnoticed.