...as long as you are motivated by the approval of others, you cannot know with confidence whether the decisions you are making in your life are what's right for you... pg 102

Each of us is the best we can be when we are fully present, focused yet relaxed, curious yet non-judgmental, committed yet flexible.

You cannot do what's important now for you if your mind cannot accept what is happening in this present moment.

When you are present, you are not needy.

When you are authentic without an intent to harm others, you give yourself an awesome feeling which is the feeling of self-love.

There is one undeniable truth about our body: it only exists in the present moment.

The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now. Dr. Arnold Beisser Pg 220

Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what's important now by living in the present.

When you are living in the present, you know what's important now for you and you act on that knowing.

In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality.

Her smile was like a swift light passing across a darkened room.("Hair")

Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man.

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.

Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.

I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic: because he is a Physician of no value.

Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting