When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running. And a system can be successful in many different forms, not just the one you first envision.
The cup is useful only when it is empty.
With most of us, the mind is clouded, cluttered up with so many things-pleasant and unpleasant experiences, knowledge, patterns or formulas of behavior, and so on. It is never empty. And creation can take place only in the mind that is totally empty . . .
You know, we are always told what to think and what not to
think. Books, teachers, parents, the society around us, all tell
us what to think, but they never help us to find out how to
think.