“They say that knowledge is power. I believe that is only partially true. Knowledge is power only if your Wise Self interprets how it relates to you.”

“I believe that purpose is not only a destination but it is the energy that pushes us toward its fulfillment.”

“Owning the sound--Wow!--that is what brings joy to every step. That is what causes people to wake up every morning excited about their day. That is what leaves them energized rather than exhausted ...”

“We know how to work hard. We know how to go for the goal. We know how to achieve, achieve, achieve but we dont know how to enjoy the journey.”

“I dare say that if you arent showing up as you, you arent showing up at all. You are sending a phony, a counterfeit. It isnt you. You might even reach a goal and have happiness, but the day will co...”

“If we fast forward through the journey, like Adam Sandler in the movie, Click, well look up one day and see that we missed our lives.”

“You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feela hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of tho...”

“All right, Nico relented. Maybe a little He managed to take off his aviator jacket and wad it into a pillow before he keeled over and began to snore.”

“I slept for over a full day, as you know, but I wont say I rested.”

“The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to ...”

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“Silence is a powerful tool.”

“I collect words--they are sweets in the mouth of sound.”

“Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely, and at other times absurd, all this verbiage, these seemingly random conso...”

“By its definition, sound is interactive. It is you connecting with the frequency of something greater or richer through hearing. Likewise, when your sound goes out, you can no longer hear the sound...”