I Like To Remind My Friends Frequently

When We Go Slower, We Are More Patient And When We Are More Patient We Have A Choice In How We Respond.

An Unhurried Mind Brings The Capacity To Make Wise Choices Every Day - Choices Of How We Use Our Time, Of Where We Place Our Resources And Our Love. I Am Not Just Talking About Avoiding The Rat Race, But About A Life Full Of An Artistic Beauty - A Life That Has Almost Vanished From Modern Civilization, But Is Quite Within The Reach Of Everyone.

It Is Not Action Or Effort That We Must Surrender; It Is Self-will, And This Is Terribly Difficult. You Must Do Your Best Constantly, Yet Never Allow Yourself To Become Involved In Whether Things Work Out The Way You Want.

As Meditation Deepens, Compulsions, Cravings And Fits Of Emotion Begin To Lose Their Power To Dictate Our Behavior. We See Clearly That Choices Are Possible; We Can Say Yes Or We Can Say No. It Is Profoundly Liberating.

The Things We Think About, Brood On, Dwell On, And Exult Over Influence Our Life In A Thousand Ways. When We Can Actually Choose The Direction Of Our Thoughts Instead Of Just Letting Them Run Along The Grooves Of Conditioned Thinking, We Become The Masters Of Our Own Lives.