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

I had a motto: Suit up and show up. That’s all I had to do! Show up every morning in the best possible shape for writing.

Dharma calls us not to just any old battlefield, but to the battlefield where we will suffer most fruitfully.

They would not find me changed from him they knew— Only more sure of all I thought was true.

The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.”

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

sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.”

“Now it is surely obvious that the only way to receive [guidance] is to put oneself quietly in the hands of God, and that none of our own efforts and mental striving can be of any use at all.”

“A man’s own calling,” he lets Krishna remind him, “with all its faults, ought not to be forsaken.”

It will require you to reach—to work at your maximum potential. In order to do this, you will have to learn to take better care of yourself. You will have to sleep and eat properly. (In the case of a writer, you will have to stop abusing your mind with poorly written books.) You will probably have to create a regular schedule.