The Way of the Superior Man - Quotes | David Deida

A few lines from The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida:

• Austerity means to eliminate the comforts and cushions in your life that you have learned to snuggle into and lose wakefulness. Take away anything that dulls your edge. No newspapers or magazines. No TV. No candy, cookies, or sweets.
• Austerity means to eliminate the comforts and cushions in your life that you have learned to snuggle into and lose wakefulness. Take away anything that dulls your edge. No newspapers or magazines. No TV. No candy, cookies, or sweets.
• A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear.
• Just remember that self-discipline is not self-suppression. Suppression is when you resist and fight against your desires, keeping them as buried and unexpressed as possible. Self-discipline is when your highest desires rule your lesser desires, not through resistance, but through loving action grounded in understanding and compassion.
• You are that which you seek, but you have left your own deepness and are looking elsewhere. The stress of not finding it creates its own need to be released.
• Your mission is your priority.
• Everything in your life, from your diet to your career, must be aligned with your purpose if you are to act with coherence and integrity in the world.
• If you know your purpose, your deepest desire, then the secret of success is to discipline your life so that you support your deepest purpose and minimize distractions and detours.
• Each moment can become a full expression of your core desire.
• The core of your life is your purpose.
• Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.