“There is a Guru in all of us. The external Guru and the teachings are there to guide you to go within and recognize that Guru within, who is constantly guiding you. It’s almost like a mirror showing you your face. The mirror doesn’t have a face of its own. It simply reflects your face. No one has seen his or her own face. Have you ever seen your face? Do you know you even have a face? Have you seen it? Only in the mirror. In the mirror you don’t see your actual face. What you see in the mirror is the reflection. Like that, you are the Guru but you have not seen it. The external Guru is there to point out the Guru within you.”
“Mental habits are like ditches in the mind. They have to be dug laboriously. But they can also be filled in and new channels can be dug. Take resentment for example. It does not burst full-blown into the mind; it grows. At first you simply expect people to behave towards you in a particular way. If they behave in their own way instead, you get surprised, then irritated. You are digging a little channel in consciousness. In the early stages, this channel may be only an inch or so deep. Thought may flow down it, but it may also flow somewhere else. Also, the walls are still soft and crumbly; they may cave in and fill the channel a little – for example, when someone you dislike says something kind. There is an element of choice. But every time we respond to a situation with resentment, the channel gets a little deeper. Finally there is a huge Grand Canal in the mind. Then anything at all is enough to provoke a conditioned resentful response. Consciousness pours down the sluice of least resistance. We can dig new mental channels – kind ways of thinking instead of resentful ones, patience instead of anger. Every time you try to return good will for ill will, love for hatred, you have dug your new, beneficial channel a little deeper. Transforming character, conduct, and consciousness is not a moral problem. It’s an engineering problem.”
“Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back – and at some point everyone looks back – she will hear her heart saying, "What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage; the certainty that you wasted your life.”
How do you count from 0 to 1 million? You start at 0 and you keep going 1 by 1 until you reach 1 million. This is the same technique you use to get from where you started to where you want to be. There are no shortcuts, there are no loopholes - you just have to do the work.
Hustle is the hard work you put into your craft. Hustle means trying again when you’ve failed. Hustle means working while everyone else is sleeping or partying. Whether you’re trying to lose weight, write a book or make more money - you need to hustle to get to your end goal.
When the going gets tough - the tough get going. When the journey is challenging remember that this is the universe testing you to see if you’re worthy of that which you are working toward. Hustle is the remedy to any ill-feeling along the road to success - just keep going.
If you feel like everyone else is doing it better than you, or if you feel that you’re not as good at whatever it is you’re trying to do - you can get better if you hustle. Putting in more hours into your craft is the best way to ensure you get better at it and ensure your success.
Hustle means not playing 5 hours of video games a week, hustle means not partying with your friends, hustle means not scrolling through news feeds and getting your ass to work. Those distractions will always be there, but the time to put into your craft will not - choose how you deploy your time carefully.
When you want something bad enough - you will hustle for it. If you haven’t reached your goal yet and are wondering what you can do to speed up the process - hustle. Along this path to your success keep in mind why you started and what you want to see at the end of it.
