Purpose

Pursue your passion, and everything else will fall into place. This is not being romantic. This is the highest order of pragmatism.

Recognize that you are the change you seek. You are the great agents of change in the world. You can adapt, you can embrace, you can respond in ways that will better your life and better the life of your society. You cannot ignore them. You cannot fight them. But what you can do is adapt and make the world a better place.

Don't forget to follow your dreams — unless your dreams are stupid — like eating all the cake in Arlington.

Being average doesn't mean you can't have an effect on the world.

You are brilliant, and the earth is hiring. The earth couldn't afford to send any recruiters or limos to your school. It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries, night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating. Take the hint.

Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life.

Your heart knows the answers to these questions. It is whispering to you right now. Listen to it and follow it. It will always be your best guide in life.

A Conscious Business has a deeper purpose beyond only making profits. Just like individual people, by following their hearts, can discover their own sense of deeper purpose, so can the business enterprise.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides.

You will quickly find that true success is measured in how you play the game of life.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.