Mastery passes often for egotism.
Marriage and family life give us constant opportunities to deny ourselves for the sake of others. And yet self-denial is not a mask for self-contempt, but the necessary means for achieving self-mastery; for self-mastery makes possible our self-giving...
When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the ...
I believe it is the responsibility of each of us to pass on whatever we have learned in our time here. If I reach enlightenment after meditating in a cave for 10 years, but do not pass on this teaching and it dies with me, this was a wasted life. I b...
We must remember that regardless of our differences in rank we are all equal as human beings. You can always tell how caring and compassionate others are in their actions towards those "below" them. Of course you are going to treat your black belt pr...
The master in us all lives behind the masks and roles and wounds and beliefs. It calls us to live deep, full, radical lives. It asks us not to wait until we are told by anyone that we have arrived. It invites us forward, across the line of fear and u...
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.
The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.
Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.
Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
[Henry] James's critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Ideas; a mastery and an escape which are perhaps the last test of a superior intelligence. [...] In England, ideas run wild and pasture on the emo...
Love is a practice of self-mastery.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions.
We speak the truth because we live in truth.
