Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday

Only with distance could Rubio begin to see the cost of this drive, what important things we miss when we give ourselves over to ...

If a person can do that, they are richer than any billionaire, more powerful than any sovereign. Yet instead of seizing this pat ...

The beauty was that these creations and insights came from a better—a stiller—place inside both men. They weren’t doing it to pr ...

O BATHE IN BEAUTY In the face of the Sublime, we feel a shiver... something too large for our minds to encompass. And for a mome ...

was the blooming of spring or the starkness of winter, even when it was dark and raining, when it was too dangerous to open the ...

face the fields, which the sun was just then rising above, extended his arms out in the direction of the serene expanse, and sai ...

The soft paw prints of a cat on the dusty trunk of a car. The hot steam wafting from the vents on a New York City morning. The s ...

memorial for those we have lost. Even, in a pinch, a sound machine loaded with the noises of the crashing ocean waves. To those ...

F ACCEPT A HIGHER POWER Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself. —ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE or nearly a hundred years, one of the m ...

follow the other steps? “What does religion or faith have to do with anything?” These are perfectly reasonable questions. And ye ...

universal reality. In Judaism, Yahweh ( ) is the word for Lord. Each of the major Native American tribes had their own word for ...

mistakes which had not been noticed at the beginning of the journey. On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriche ...

to speak against his conscience. Here I stand, I can do no other; so help me God. Amen.” Is it not interesting that the leaders ...

line is so spot on: It’s not that we need to believe that God is great, only that God is greater than us. Even if we are the pro ...

A ENTER RELATIONSHIPS There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with. —SENECA ...

There are people who try to live this way. They take vows of chastity or solitude, or, conversely, try to reduce relationships t ...

loved by anyone?” was Cicero’s question some two thousand years ago. It echoes on down to us, still true forever. Even paragons ...

A life solely about work and doing is terribly out of balance; indeed, it requires constant motion and busyness to keep from fal ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky once described his wife, Anna, as a rock on which he could lean and rest, a wall that would not let him fall a ...

I CONQUER YOUR ANGER He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a cit ...