Self Discovery

Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

The most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. It is our default setting, hardwired into our boards at birth.

There is nothing, believe me, more satisfying, more gratifying than true adulthood. The adulthood that is the span of life before you. The process of becoming one is not inevitable. Its achievement is a difficult beauty, an intensely hard-won glory.

To be a good doctor, a good researcher, is to be one who can listen, assimilate and diagnose information from without, but can also listen and hear what is being said from within themselves.

When we experience our fear, when we say the words 'I am scared,' we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being scared is not who we are. It is not our identity.

Learn to love the process of revision — in your writing and in your life. Don't be afraid of the editing.

Never give up, never, never give up! Because the only person that can stop you is — YOU!

If you never venture beyond what you know, you've spawned your own limitations. You've erected the walls of your own private prison cell.

You can spend your life tripping on yourself. You can also spend your life tripping yourself up. Get out of your own way.

The way to be happy is to like yourself, and the way to like yourself is to do only things that make you proud.