Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday

pure, but also attainable and lowly. It is simultaneously attached and
detached.
This is the balance we want to strike. If we aim for the trophy in
life—be it recognition or wealth or power—we’ll miss the target. If we
aim too intensely for the target—as Kenzo warned his students—we
will neglect the process and the art required to hit it. What we should
be doing is practicing. What we should be doing is pushing away that
willful will.
The closer we get to mastery, the less we care about specific
results. The more collaborative and creative we are able to be, the
less we will tolerate ego or insecurity. The more at peace we are, the
more productive we can be.
Only through stillness are the vexing problems solved. Only
through reducing our aims are the most difficult targets within our
reach.