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Letting go is not in anybody’s program for happiness, and yet all mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning. You can take that as an absolute. As German mystic-philosopher Meister Eckhart said, the spiritual life has much more to do with subtraction than it does with addition.

“A good marriage is one in which each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal, and this is true also of our friendships.” — Anne Lamott

"Without goals, training has no direction." - Natalie Coughlin

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow." Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

"The hardest thing to teach a student—and the hardest thing to believe consistently—is that there is nothing ‘out there’ to go and get. There is no part, no career, no opportunity for which you should be searching and scrounging and coveting. All of the preparation is within, and you keep yourself mentally and physically fit; you remain generous

“The nature of life is change and the nature of people is to resist change.”