The Way of Integrity: Finding the path to your true self

It requires nothing of you except to recognize when you’re doing something because it’s prescribed by culture, and when an action arises from your true nature.

When we think, hear, or understand something that’s deeply true for us, our inner teachers rise in us as a delicious, lucid resonance.

It’s the way our instincts motivate us to regain our integrity. It’s the truth come to set us free.

if you spend your life pursuing culturally defined goals (climbing Mount Delectable), you may manage to get what you want, but you probably won’t get what you yearn for.

Reading is the way I’ve met most of my life teachers, and clients often tell me that just when they felt most confused, the perfect book seemed to “throw itself off the shelf” and into their attention.

When humans meet in the dark wood of error, all of them sleepwalking, the relationships they create tend to be shallow or toxic or both.

Mind you, hustling doesn’t mean you’re bad. It means you’re well socialized, cooperating beautifully with culture. But it also means you’re split from your true nature.

But my hidden agenda was always trying to figure out how I, and other people, could create lives we actually enjoyed.

You won’t be able to drum up the energy to climb the success ladder—or for that matter, to wash your hair.