The Tools: 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower--and Inspire You to Live Life in Forward Motion

The Maze doesn’t just damage your relationship to other people; it damages your relationship to life itself. When you’re in the Maze, life passes you by.

“Black Cloud.” When you worry incessantly, regardless of the subject, you’re creating a negative energy that hangs over you like a cloud. The Black Cloud screens out everything positive and creates a sense of impending doom.

Frankl affirmed what we observed earlier—that whatever your goals are in the outside world, life has its own goals for you. If there is a conflict between these agendas, life will win.

faith is the confidence that higher forces are always there to help when you need them.

But inevitably, life will never exempt you from facing more pain. Once you accept this, your goal will no longer be for pain to stop; it will be to increase your tolerance for it—which is exactly what the Reversal of Desire will do for you.

When consumers say, “taking care of us,” they really mean exonerating us from the struggle. But the story explains that God’s real “job” is to keep us in the struggle. This view of God doesn’t go down well when your ultimate goal is a life of ease.

In order to use Inner Authority, you need to be able to see an image of your Shadow. You’ve

Inner strength comes only to those who move forward in the face of adversity.

Most people have a faulty way of motivating themselves. They’re motivated to get whatever they want—money, romance, status—because they feel they don’t have enough already. This feeling of lack is a powerful motivator, but you pay a huge price for it. That price is the ongoing feeling that there’s always something missing. Even if you get something

The victim thinks he knows how the universe should work. When it doesn’t treat him the way he “deserves,” he concludes the world is against him. This becomes his rationale for giving up and retreating to his Comfort Zone where he can stop trying.