The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling

The more successful she was, the more she had to face men’s rage, and this routinely brought to her doorstep withering moments of public excoriation and every form of low personal attack.

The dharma gradually becomes a point of radiance that focuses and unites our life force.

She became famous for standing her ground with equanimity. There are dozens of fantastic stories of her facing down apoplectic men in public situations—usually winning the day with her calm, her sense of humor, and her impressive composure

“No man can know what power he can rightly call his own unless he presses a little,” he wrote. It was time to press.

You know that if you don’t go into training and suit up and show up every morning at your writing desk, these wonderful moments will in fact never happen. So you train as religiously as you can. Now you are hooked by dharma—by the magic of inaction in action.

some new insight would pull the ground out from under him—and he’d feel disoriented, as if everything he thought he knew was dropping away. In these times, Lonny would doubt himself: Am I hypnotizing myself into believing a complex metaphysic that is actually baseless? he wondered.

She was a woman who had retained the simplicity of earlier life even as she had surpassed its limitations.” Susan B. Anthony was what she championed. She had become, through her own practice, the New True Woman.

They would not find me changed from him they knew— Only more sure of all I thought was true.

Susan began to believe, as she often said, that in order to be effective, “The important thing is to forget self.”