Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be

The ego is your ass. The Self is where your heart wants to be. The Divine Ground is what powers the Self and renders it transcendent. Every chapter in this book leads to one final aspiration. Blow off your ego. Move to your Self. It may help to realize that the inner transformation called for by every great religion from Buddhism to Hinduism to Chr

The primary emotion of the ego is fear.

I believe heaven notices. The universe is not indifferent.

For writers and artists, the ability to self-reinforce is more important than talent.

That’s killer instinct. What, exactly, are we “killing”? We’re killing Resistance. We’re sinking our dagger into the insidious, pernicious, rotten, sneaky, evil force of our own self-sabotage. Our own hesitation. Our own fear of success (or failure).

Self-reinforcement is a superpower.

There is no worse feeling for a writer or any artist than to see her book, her film, her music go out there and die. Or worse, be launched into the world and nobody even knows it exists. I’ve experienced this more than once and it’s heartbreaking.

Dreams come from the Self. Intuition comes from the Self. Ideas come from the Self. Inspiration comes from the Self.

This is the job. There is no other job. This is the job.