The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling

The whole world is inside each person, each being, each object. To know any part of the world deeply, intimately, is to know the whole.

Fear of Closing the Door is one version of dharma paralysis.

the most complex—hallmark of dharma-discernment: the intersection of The Gift and the The Times.

“No man can know what power he can rightly call his own unless he presses a little,” he wrote.

See the world as your self. Love the world as your self. This is a simple reframe—like taking one small step to the side. You only have to love what you already love.

If you don’t find your work in the world and throw yourself wholeheartedly into it, you will inevitably make your self your work.

Actions taken in support of dharma change the self. The act of commitment itself calls forth an unseen dharma power.

Right size is everything. Think of the small as large.

It is, therefore, the sacred duty of every individual human soul to be utterly and completely itself—to be that jewel at that time and in that place, and to be that jewel utterly. It is in this way—merely by being itself—that one jewel holds together its own particular corner of Space and Time. The action of each individual soul holds together the