Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday

For Green, the ball began to look smaller and smaller the longer he went without a hit. But it was Buddhism, which he had long p ...

going, is this ever going to end, why can’t I get this right?—but he let those wild horses run right on by, waiting for the dust ...

field. He hit it a mile. It slammed high off the back wall of the enclosed stadium and bounced back onto the field. As Green’s t ...

But if we can clear space, if we can consciously empty our mind, as Green did, insights and breakthroughs happen. The perfect sw ...

I SLOW DOWN, THINK DEEPLY With my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. —ALICE WALK ...

of his production studio in Pittsburgh, a snippet from one of his favorite quotes: L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. What ...

There is, on the surface, a contradiction here. On the one hand, the Buddhists say we must empty our minds to be fully present. ...

This will not only be advantageous to your career and your business, but it will also help you find peace and comfort. There is ...

materializes. If it doesn’t, extend the exercise to eleven minutes, then twelve, then thirteen... until you find the length of t ...

F START JOURNALING Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters u ...

also wrote when she was confused, when she was curious. She wrote in that journal as a form of therapy, so as not to unload her ...

by.” Then he would go to bed, finding that “the sleep which follows this self-examination” was particularly sweet. Anyone who re ...

What’s the best way to start journaling? Is there an ideal time of day? How long should it take? Who cares? How you journal is m ...

T CULTIVATE SILENCE All profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.... Silence is the general ...

To Cage, silence was not necessarily the absence of all sound. He loved the sound of a truck at 50 miles an hour. Static on the ...

second, raindrops began pattering the roof, and during the third the people themselves made all kinds of interesting sounds as t ...

These were people with busy, collaborative professions. People who made countless high-stakes decisions in the course of a day. ...

I SEEK WISDOM Imperturbable wisdom is worth everything. —DEMOCRITUS n Greece in 426 BC, the priestess of Delphi answered a quest ...

This open-minded search for truth, for wisdom, was what made Socrates the most brilliant and challenging man in Athens—so much s ...

There’s little advantage to reading with arrogance or to confirm preexisting opinions either. Hitler, spent his short prison sen ...