Quotes from Steve Chandler

Whenever I'm afraid of something coming up, I will find a way to do something that's even harder or scarier. Once I do the harder thing, the real thing becomes fun.

When your life itself becomes the subject matter of the creative process, a very different experience of life opens to you—one in which you are involved with life at its very essence.

What we are engaged in creating is the opportunity for people to participate in the transformation of people's lives and of life itself. This context of transformation is a context of freedom and opportunity, of empowerment and human joy, of contribution and of participation. Participation in this transformation is, for me, the fullest expression of being. ~ Werner Erhard

Some people use language, she said, to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead.

Our self-motivation suffers most from how we choose to see the circumstances in our lives. That's because we don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

When you say you fear death you are really saying that you fear you have not lived your true life.

It's amazing what can be done by people who learn to relax, pay attention, and focus, appreciating the present hour and all the opportunity it contains. It is said that in America we try to cultivate an appreciation of art, while the Japanese cultivate the art of appreciation. You, too, can cultivate the art of appreciation. Appreciate this hour. This hour, right now, is pure opportunity.

From now on, make it a personal commitment to notice everything that pushes your buttons. Make a note of everything that inspires you. That's your control panel. Those buttons operate

It's not what we do that makes us tired—it's what we don't do. The tasks we don't complete cause the most fatigue.

The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

The notion that "no one is coming" was somehow terrifying to accept. The idea that no one was going to rescue me from my circumstances is an idea that I might never have accepted. That idea sounded too much like the final abandonment. It

It's not what we do that makes us tired—it's what we don't do.

Owners of the spirit are beautiful losers. They risk all. They are losers because they have lost all fear of embarrassment. They have lost all inhibition. They have lost all concern for what other people might think.

But, I don't know what my purpose is," a lot of people tell me, as if someone forgot to tell them what it is. Those people may wait forever to be told how to live and what to live for.

do everything right on the spot—don't put anything unnecessarily into your future. Do it now, so that the future is always wide open.

THINK LIKE A HERO (who can I help today?), WORK LIKE AN ARTIST (what else can we try?), REFUSE TO BE ORDINARY (pursue excellence, then kill it.), and CELEBRATE (but take no credit.).

Dr. Martin Seligman in his excellent book, Flourish, calls the practice of instantly finding the benefit in adversity "post-traumatic growth," and he backs it up with rather thrilling and extensive research studies. Our society and media are fixated on post-traumatic stress because of the strong bias toward (and financial interest in) tragedy.

So I have always remembered from this experience that people's performance is a response to who they perceive themselves to be for us at the moment.

And there is a crack in every story of "life is wonderful

Owners focus on what they want. Victims focus on what they fear. And both positions are pure internal invention

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. Rumi

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!

Objects in the mirror of the future appear larger than they really are.

There are no optimistic or pessimistic personalities. There are only single, individual choices for optimistic or pessimistic thoughts.