People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can’t fathom.

Enlightenment is the space between your thoughts. It isn’t this thing you achieve after 30 years of sitting in a corner meditating. It’s something you can achieve moment to moment and you can be a certain percentage enlightened every single day.

You have to work on your internal state until you are free of as many biases and conditioned responses as possible. This will improve every aspect of your life.

On meditation: Sit down, close your eyes, get in a comfortable position, and whatever happens, happens. If you think, you think. If you don’t think, you don’t think. Don’t put any effort into it.

You don’t want to be the guy who succeeds in life while being high-strung, high-stress, and unhappy while leaving a trail of emotional wreckage for you and your loved ones.

The problem happens when we have multiple desires. When we have fuzzy desires. When we want to do ten different things and we’re not clear about which is the one we care about.

In every moment, in everything that happens, you can look on the bright side of something. There are two ways of seeing almost everything.

In today’s day and age, many people think you get peace by resolving all your external problems, but there are unlimited external problems. The only way to actually get peace on the inside is by giving up the idea of having problems.

To me, peace is happiness at rest and happiness is peace in motion. You can convert peace to happiness anytime you want.

Caught in a funk? Use meditation, music, and exercise to reset your mood. Then choose a new path to commit emotional energy for rest of day.

If you’re a peaceful person, anything you do will be a happy activity.

The thousandth time you’re seeing it, and someone shows you a sunset, you’re like, “Well, actually, I saw this one sunset in Mexico at this time that was really cool.” You’re not even there.

The second time you saw it, it was cool. The hundredth time you see it, it’s nothing.

First time you saw a sunset, it was amazing. It was jaw-dropping. You forgot yourself.

Every moment has to be complete in and of itself.

We are born with happiness, we are intrinsically happy creatures but we become unhappy because our egos create desire. The desire pulls us out of the moment. So something is missing right now then we chase that and we wonder why we are unhappy.

Happiness is an internal trait that comes out of being peaceful and accepting of whatever is going on around you. It’s that sense that nothing is missing in this moment.

Internal happiness is reward from being in flow. Create, meditate, love, play. Clears the mind and leaves us in peace.

Yoga cultivates Peace of Body. Meditation cultivates Peace of Mind.

I think a lot of us learn as we get older that happiness is internal.

As you get older, you just realize that there’s no happiness in material possessions.

I don’t have a preconception of a perfect day, because if I did, then it would ruin the day that I was living.

A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.

Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.