Michael Schreiber

” Your close men friends should be willing to challenge your mediocrity by suggesting a concrete action you can perform that will pop you out of your rut, one way or the other. And you must be willing to offer them your brutal honesty, in the same way, if you are all to grow. Good friends should not tolerate mediocrity in one another. If you are at

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One very good way to tell that your centre of gravity is out of whack is when it feels like you spend a lot of time inside the minds of far-off strangers.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default-setting, the "rat race"-the constant gnawin... See more

You may be right, but that doesn’t mean that people will care. Or pay attention. Or take action.

Just because you’re right, doesn’t mean they’re going to listen.

It takes more than being right to earn attention and action.

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spen... See more

“What’s different? What’s different since the last session? What’s different since we first started working together?” What we pay attention to grows, and what goes unnoticed withers. If they can notice some positive change, however small, we can amplify it. That’s food for the journey.