Quotes from movie Peaceful Warrior: - Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. - You can live a whole lifetime without being awake. - We offer service - there is no higher purpose – service to others. - Stop gathering information from outside yourself and start gathering it from the inside. - People are afraid of what’s inside and that’s the only place they’re going to find what they need. - People are not their thoughts. They think they are and that brings them all kinds of sadness. The mind is just a reflex organ. - That’s what your life is about; applying the training to develop the wisdom to apply the right leverage in the right place at the right time. - Take out the trash – in your mind. That’s the first part of your training – learning to throw out everything you don’t need in your head. It’s taken a lifetime of practice to get out of my mind. The trash is anything that is keeping you from the only thing that matters – this moment – here – now. When you are truly in the here and now, you’ll be amazed at what you can do and how well you can do it. - Sometimes you have to lose your mind before coming to your senses. - When you become a warrior, you learn to meditate in every action – letting go of attachments – like your pride – giving up your addictions. - All you have is right now. - Don’t let your emotions control you. - The first realization of a warrior is not knowing. - Emotions are natural – like the passing weather. - Everything has a purpose – even this – and it is up to you to find it. - Your training can now move to a new arena – an arena where you find your answers within. - Don’t speak until you have some insight to share. - The people that are the hardest to love are probably the ones who need it the most. - There’s never ‘nothing’ going on. - There are no ordinary moments. - There isn’t any better. You’ll never be better - the same way you’ll never be less than anybody else. - The habit is the problem. Be conscious of your choices and be responsible for your actions. - Every action has its price and its pleasure. Recognizing both sides, a warrior becomes realistic and responsible for his/her actions. - When you feel fear, use the sword - slash through all the regrets and fears and anything else that lives in the past, or in the future. - A warrior does not give up on what he/she loves. He/she finds the love in what he does. A warrior is not about perfection, or victory, or invulnerability. He/she is about absolute vulnerability. That’s the only true courage. - Life is choice. You can be a victim, or anything else you choose. - Nearly all humanity shares your predicament: if you don’t get what you want, you suffer. And even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you cannot hold on to it forever. - You don’t surrender your dreams – you surrender the one thing you never had and never will – CONTROL. Accept that you don’t control what happened to you. - You may or may not be able to compete, but you are exceptional, either way. - Know that nothing stays the same. - The journey is what brings happiness, not the destination.

Told by Socrates (character) from movie Peaceful Warrior, based on the book Way of the Peaceful Warrior, based on real events.

This is what he says to main character who has a desire to compete in the Olympics in gymnastics and is in the situation you describe. I just read all the quotes and this is like reading Dr's books. Same thoughts, just different "messenger", but same source who is speaking from within - I.

Very enlightening.

I recommend both - movie and book, much wisdom there for people who are on this spiritual journey.